In this day and age its nice to have a few online therapy tools at your fingertips, so today after work I crawled the web to find the least obnoxious games you could recommend to a patient or client (or even a family member) who would benefit from participating in fine motor, calculations, vocabulary, problem solving games.
In no particular order...
Luminosity
www.luminosity.com
After hearing about this website from a few clients I logged on myself and discovered a fun way to track your progress (and cognitive state) daily. Be warned: if you want to try it you have to enter in some details about yourself and set some goals (how OT!) as well as respond to an email in your inbox before you are allowed to play (or work). In the free version you are allotted a few games a day and you can generally only play them once before you are moved along and finished your "training" for the day. Or you can also pay a subscription fee to be a full member and have access to all the games on their system.
Maze Race
http://www.primarygames.com/puzzles/mazes/mazerace/
This game is significantly harder than most of the maze games I found online so if your client has fine motor difficulties they will find this game impossible. If you are encouraging your client to use it for problem solving and cognitive flexibility it is a great choice - you are controlling a green ball with your arrow keys and racing the computer (a red ball) to the pin. Your score depends on how fast you are and by how much you beat the computer - addictive!!! Make sure to warn your client that they will have to watch a short advertisement before they can play.
Word Winder
http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/word-winder.jsp
This word game is one of the more challenging free ones out there - you can find easier ones that will have you "Boggle" your way through a jumble of letters to a timer but this one does that AND is like a crossword puzzle. It will even give you a hint about the clue and then after that even fill in some of the letters so you can find it crossword style (linking the letters together) in the jumble. There is a timer for competitive players, and bonus points are added if you finish without needing any hints and without running out of time. Again, addictive!
Addition Aliens
http://www.addinggame.net/
This is a free online game that can help clients improve their addition and subtraction skills in addition to their fine motor coordination and processing speed. The game is an arcade style space shooter game where players have to type the answer to the math problem, otherwise the aliens shoot at the buildings and depending on the level of difficulty your game is over. There are four levels of difficulty for every level of ability.
Hope these games help some of your patients, there are so many out there let me know if you find any better ones!
Good luck!
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