Calendar Activity Explanation

Time estimation: 10 minutes

The calendar activity can be used for several purposes.

1. The first can be used to organize the months in the correct order for someone who has memory or orientation deficits.

2. One can also add different years to the months and have the patients order the months corresponding to the given years.

3. The second activity is to have the patient ask everyone in the gym their name and birth date and put it on the calendar. This would allow the person to work on social skills, orientation with the calendar, visual and reading skills.

You will need:

- Calendar

- Dry erase pen

This activity can be used to test:

- Initiation

- Organization

- Repair

- Follow through/persistence

- Time estimation

- Creating/executing time schedules

- Socialization