Helen McIntosh
Publications for health workers, carers and those suffering from stroke
Helen McIntosh
Publications for health workers, carers and those suffering from stroke
Helen McIntosh is an educator, author and stroke survivor. She lives daily with the residual affects of stroke. But mostly she is grateful for the life she has been given .
Helen suffered a cerebral haemorrhage which caused a stroke while having lunch with colleagues in a Carlton restaurant on the 29th July, 1987. She was 43 years old.
Before Helen’s career was so abruptly ended she was a senior officer of the Victorian Ministry of Education, and had been previously a primary school principal. At the time of her stroke she was the Senior Curriculum Officer for Primary Education in Victoria and had recently commenced lecturing in primary school curriculum at the University of Melbourne. In addition to her teaching qualifications she holds a B.A. and B.Ed. from La Trobe University and an M.Ed. from the University of Melbourne. In 1986 Helen was the recipient of the John and Elizabeth Robertson Prize for good research and writing in education which is awarded each year in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. At the time of her illness she was a member of the Australian College of Education.
Writing has been an important part of Helen’s rehabilitation and her books and have been used not only in Australia but in other countries. Her children’s book Grandpa’s Had A Stroke was republished in Great Britain and translated into Japanese and Hebrew. More recently she has added a Stroke Survivor’s Blog to this site as at almost 72 she feels she still has a lot to share and needs to keep up with technology.
Helen wrote, ‘I wish the stroke had not happened but I do not regret it because the pain and suffering I experienced and the difficulties I still have are outweighed by the blessings God has given me and continues to give’.