Skilled Nursing Facility: Peg Board Puzzle
Peg Board Uses for Adults:
1. Target Attention
- Allows the patient to target following directions row by row and color by color.
- Clinician can make the task more complex by using 4 to 5 different colors.
- Have the patient create a more complex task using two to three different color sequences (i.e., red, blue, red, yellow, blue, yellow, red, blue, red)
- Generate conversation about colors in reference to other activities of daily living (i.e., clothes)
2. Memory
-Clinician can make a simple pattern of only one to two colors to work on memory
3. Left Neglect
- Have the peg board and pattern on opposite sides of the table to encourage visual scanning