Rehabilitation
At Home Rehabilitation Exercises
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2- Playing Cards
LEVEL 1 - Give the student a deck of cards. Ask the student to “deal” the deck, (doing it faster/slower at different times). At this point, it does not have to be to any one person. You are not playing a game at this point. Have the student sort the deck into the 2 colors (black and red).
LEVEL 2 - Ask the student to “shuffle” the deck. Have the student sort the deck by the 4 suits (Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, and Spades).
LEVEL 3 - Lay out 10 cards in only 2 of the suits, for example Hearts and Spades, in random fashion and ask the student to put them in numerical order and in groups of suits. Add more suits and numbers of cards, as the student is successful.
LEVEL 4 - Deal a group of cards (10 to 15) face up and ask the student to count how many red or black cards as you deal. Start out dealing slowly and increase speed and the number of cards, as the student is successful.
LEVEL 5 - Increase number of cards used to 20 – 35.
LEVEL 6 - Use the entire deck of cards.
LEVEL 7 - Teach or re-teach the student to play solitaire.
LEVEL 8 - Play a card game with another person (for example, Gin, War, etc). Ask the student to “deal” the deck. (Ask the student to do it faster/slower at different times).
LEVEL 9 - Play more complex games with multiple people (like Hearts, Spades, Go Fish, Uno, Poker, etc.)
Taken from Tasks for Home-Based Cognitive Stimulation Program, the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dept. of P M & R, Birmingham, AL. © 1998-2003 University of Alabama at Birmingham