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Exercise #1 Target O’s: 

This activity will develop eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills.  Print this page out and place on a piece of cardboard. Take a pencil and try to hit the middle of the “O”.  Add a beat; have someone move the target to increase difficulty.

Easy:

O                       O                                   O     
                       O                          O         
       O                                O                                   O        
                   O                                O        
    O                              O                                O      

Medium:

O              O                            O                            O                           O                           O      
        O                     O                           O                               O                       O           
 O              O                     O                                  O                            O                               
        O                       O                  O                                   O                         O                 O

Hard:

 O          O               O            O             O               O            O               O              O              O            O           O           O           O               O            O           O         O          O       O    
 O          O         O           O        O                 O       O            O            O           O         O
O    O       O      O     O         O         O         O            O         O           O      O       O         O

Expert:

O O O  O  O O O   O        O      O O    O O   O O  O O O O O O O   O O            O O O O O  O O    O O      O O      O O O           O        O O O O O O O          O O O O O O O O O  O O O O O OOOOOOO        O O O         O O O           O O O O O        O O O O OOOOO O O O O                O O O O         O O                  O O O           O O O O O           O O
 O O O O O OO O O O             O O         O O O O             O O O O                    O O O O O O          O O O         OOO

Exercise #2 Slap-Tap: 

This activity will develop eye hand coordination skills as well as left right skills. Think of this as a sheet of drum music where the “xI” is your left hand and the “Ix” is your right hand. Try to do it to the beat of a metronome or have someone clap:

Ix      xI      xI      Ix      xI      Ix      Ix      xI      Ix      Ix      xI      xI      xI      Ix      Ix      Ix      xI      Ix      xI      Ix      Ix      Ix      Ix      xI      Ix      xI      Ix      xI      Ix      Ix      xI      xI      Ix      Ix      xI      xI      Ix      xI      xI      Ix      xI      Ix      xI      Ix      xI      xI      Ix      Ix      Ix      xI

Now add your feet –  “oI” is your left foot and “Io” is your right foot:

oI      oI      Io      Io      oI      oI      Io      oI      oI      Io      oI      Io      oI      oI      oI      Io      Io      oI      oI      Io      oI      oI      oI      Io      Io      oI      oI      Io      Io      oI     
oI      Io      oI      Io      oI      Io      oI      Io      oI      oI

Now for both:

xI      oI      Io      xI      Ix     Io
xI      oI      Ix      Io      Ix     oI     
Io      xI      Io      oI      xI     Ix
Io      oI      Io      xI      xI     oI
oI      xI      Ix      oI      xI     Io
xI      Ix      oI      xI      oI     xI
xI      oI      Io      Ix          

Helpful and friendly links:
• www.nora.com
• www.covd.org
• www.padulainstitute.com

The above links support and provide further information for the patient with questions to their visual complications of head injury and stroke.