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