Accommodation
Bulls Eye Rock
Letter Focus Chart

Oculomotilities
Continuous Motion Eye-Hand
Flashlight Tag
Marsden Ball

POINTER IN THE STRAW

Equipment: straw, pointer

Purpose: To develop depth perception, increase skill in making spatial judgments.

Procedure: Therapist holds straw in various positions while patient attempts to place tip of pointer into the end of the straw. Therapist should place the straw in a variety of different positions of gaze with varying angles of presentation. Patient may then switch hands.

Gradations:

1. Start with large cylinders, like paper towel tubes and dowels,
   and decrease to large straws, the smaller straws.

2. Use two straws, one in each hand, with patient holding a
   pointer in each hand and alternate hands.

3. Increase speed.

Note: This exercise may be used with patients with monocular
vision, who need to develop one-eyed skills in judging depth. It may
also be used for hemianopsia or neglect compensation training,
presenting the straw in the hemianopic or field of neglect.