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Section 22
Project Stabilization

Table of Contents | NCCAP/NCTRC CE Booklet

With a Success Therapy® Object Manipulation Activity like Color Pattern Cards, you may need to stabilize the card for Ernie, if he cannot keep it from sliding around himself.   For example, assess, if he is right-handed, can he use his left hand to hold the card stationary, while he places the cap on the dot?  Many residents are unable to do this, so you may need to tape the card to the over-the-bed-table or clamp it to the table using a small c-clamp.  If you are taping the card, a good quality of masking tape works best because it is easily removable.  Also, if you are taping the card to the working surface for your resident, this makes the covering of your cards with clear contact paper a must, of course, in order to make the Card reusable.

Shaky Hands
Because of the card stabilization challenge for Color Pattern Cards and the Geometric Puzzle (to be explained next), these activities usually prove to be very frustrating for a resident with shaky hands.  Thus, a resident with a hand tremor usually does better with a ST® Activity that requires less fine motor skills, like Caps-in-a-Bowl.  So in some cases, your resident may have far and above the mental ability to do Color Pattern Cards or the Geometric Puzzle.  But, because of the physical limitations of his or her hand movement, in order to provide them with a successful experience, Caps-in-a-Bowl would be more appropriate.

A Note about Color Blindness
Check Section D of your resident’s MDS and other documentation for evidence of visual problems.  For the three ST Activities just mentioned, if the resident is color blind, of course you would not require them to identify colors.  However, since most people that are color blind only have this condition for two colors, you could provide your resident with caps and dots that do not contain these two colors.