Aphasia Awareness Month

Clients from Special Tree’s Day Treatment Services hit the road to enjoy a Toledo Mud Hens game on June 25th and to raise awareness for aphasia, a condition that affects one’s ability to communicate verbally following a TBI or stroke.  The game had special meaning for DTS Manager Neal Dregansky whose mother, Melodie Dregansky, helped plan the event through the DaZy Aphasia Centre, a speech therapy clinic she helped co-found that specializes in treating aphasia.   Special Tree Medical Director Dr. Dregansky also joined his family for the event.

A view of Fifth Third Field from the seats of the Special Tree Team

Stephen's Italian Sausage & Pepper Hoagie

Outpatient client Stephen M. is especially passionate about his vegetable garden where he grows a cornicopia of crops.   When he isn’t tending to his plants, Stephen loves to cook -- turning the bounty from his garden into delicious dishes like his Sausage & Pepper Hoagie which always gets rave reviews. 

RECIPE - serves 2

2 mild & sweet italian sausage
1 Tbs olive oil
1 clove crushed garlic1 vadelia onion sliced
1 banana pepper (Steve uses the Hungarian Hot Wax variety), halved
1 red bell pepper sliced
2 hoagie buns
spicy brown mustard

Grill sausages until thoroughly cooked and no pink remains
Place an iron skillet on grill; heat olive oil on low heat, add garlic, cook until fragrant (about 30 seconds), add onions and peppers and sautee until plyable.  Grill hoagie buns and fill each with sausage, onions, peppers, and then top it all with spicy brown mustard.