SINCE I AM 1-HANDED, HERE ARE SOME ACTIVITY IDEAS FROM SEVERAL STROKE SURVIVORS THAT I HAVE COLLECTED:
• I-PAD: YOU CAN READ (& ENLARGE THE PRINT), CHECK E-MAIL, SURF THE WEB, LISTEN TO AUDIO BOOKS, WATCH MOVIES, THERE ARE TONS OF FREE GAME & PUZZLE APPS), FREE PIANO APP, FREE SPEAKING SOFTWARE, SPEECH THERAPY APPS, ETC.
Apps I recommend (in italics, if free)
o Fruit ninja
o Blocks
o Doodle fit
o The Solitaire
o Soduko tablet
o Touch hockey
o UNO
o Moxie (word game)o Color & draw
o Magic puzzes
o Pianist pro
o Kindle
o Audible
o Speak it
o VAST songs
o Decibal meter
o The daily (newspaper)
o Netflix
o Go to my PC
o If you are lds: THE Scriptures, BYUtv, LDS Music, Mormon channel
• I can’t imagine being a stroke survivor before the internet, locked in one place. With it? The whole world is still open to us! ON THE INTERNET, KEEP A BLOG/WEBSITE, U CAN CONVERSE W/ANY1, LIKE A PEN-PAL/LETTER, THROUGH EMAIL
• DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING: U CAN MAKE WAY SIMPLE PGS. & I TEACH IT. EMAIL ME IF U ARE INTERESTED! I HAVE AMPLE PS. ON MY BLOG/WEBSITE, WWW.JENANNLYNN.ORG . OR, U CAN DO TRADITIONAL SCRAPBOOKING IF U CAN WRITE & MOVE YOUR OTHER HAND AS A PAPER WEIGHT.
• AUDIO BOOKS ON A CD PLAYER W/REMOTE, OR THERE AREE DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO BOOKS ON AUDIBLE.COM , & AMAZON HAS A FREE DOWNLOADABLE KINDLE DEVICE FOR IT: FREE KINDLEFORPC
• PLAY PIANO -ALL U NEED IS 1 HAND! I USE A SYNTHESIZER BECAUSE MY WHEELCHAIR’S 2 TALL 4 A PIANO.
• JOURNAL –EITHER IT CAN BE HANDWRITTEN, OR TYPED ON YOUR COMPUTER, THROUGH TYPE
• TYPE A BOOK
• TV SHOW
• READ/TYPE ON WEBSITES/BLOGS
• GAMES W/FRIENDS–I DO SIGNO (ASL BINGO), CARD GAMES & SKIP-BO & PHASE 10 (USE A CARD HOLDER), MANCALA, RUMMIKUB, APPLES 2 APPLES, DISNEY SCENE IT!, IMAGINIFF, MOUNTAIN CLIMBER, TRAVEL BLOKUS, & A FEW OTHERS OCCASIONALLY
• PAINT/WATERCOLOR
• MOVIE W/FRIENDS
• SHOP ONLINE
• SELL ON EBAY
• COMPUTER GAMES-I LIKE SOLITAIRE, SPIDER FREECELL, YAHOO’S SUPER TEXT TWIST (http://get.games.yahoo.com/game/text-twist), HEARTS, & SODUKO ( http://www.websudoku.com/?level=1 ), EUCHER (http://www.games.com/game/euchre/), BESPELLED (http://zone.msn.com/en/general/article/genbespfarewell.htm)
• MUSIC & MOVIES & BOOKS IN A DATA BASE
• BIG PUZZLES
• CHAT ROOMS