Media Project Neuro

    For my media project, I was assigned a case study for a 68 year old named Dennis. Dennis recently had a stroke and was brought into the emergency room due to an unbearable headache, slurred speech, and loss of control on his left side. After 10 days, Dennis was transferred to a rehabilitation hospital. Dennis enjoys gardening and woodworking and his goal is to return to those hobbies. After an evaluation, Dennis has deficits in visual perception, particularly with figure-ground and spatial relations. He also demonstrates left neglect, completely neglecting objects on his left side while getting ready. He has great difficult dressing (unable to figure out front from back or sleeve hole from neck hole) and needs maximum assistance to do so. Dennis is able to transfer with minimum assistance and ambulates with a hemi walker. He interacts well with the staff, teasing them and involving humor in his interactions, but does not understand why he has to be in a rehabilitation hospital. 

    The item I was assigned for the media project was construction paper. I decided to focus on Dennis' left neglect and use the construction paper to make a board game. This game consists of a boxes with arrows, a large dice, and a game piece. Because Dennis has a poor attention span, I decided to make the game simple so there is not too many things he needs to focus on. The goal of the game is get from start to finish in the least amount of dice roles. I put arrows on the board so that Dennis can work on turning his head or trunk to his left side. He has to follow the arrows to the left until they go up and change direction. Because of Dennis' increased tone and weak extension and flexion in his fingers, I made the dice larger than a typical one for easier grip. He will probably have the roll the dice and move the game piece with his right hand because of his impaired fine and gross motor skill on his left side. I have included a picture of the board game that I made out of construction paper.