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Full name Jessica Costanzi

a. Activity Title
Snowball Fight
b. Sources for your activity and for your adaptations (APA citations)

G. (n.d.). Snowball Fight. Retrieved October 26, 2017, from

http://www.greatgroupgames.com/snowball-fight.htm
S. (n.d.). Balance Exercises for Stroke Patients. Retrieved October 27, 2017, from http://www.stroke-
rehab.com/balance-exercises.html
S. (n.d.). Effects of Stroke. Retrieved October 27, 2017, from http://www.stroke-rehab.com/effects-of-
stroke.html
S. (n.d.). Hemiplegia and Hemiparesis After Stroke. Retrieved October 27, 2017, from
http://www.stroke-rehab.com/hemiplegia.html

c. Equipment needed
Blank pieces of paper
Masking tape
Timer
d. Activity Description following guidelines for task analysis. How will you explain to your
participants how the activity will go?
1. Divide the group evenly into two teams
2. Have the two teams stand facing each other on opposite sides of the room
3. Place masking tape on the floor in from of each of the teams
4. The activity leader will say go and everyone begins crumbling the sheets of paper into balls
that are similar to snowballs
5. After crumbling the paper, throw the crumbled paper ball to the other teams side that is
opposite you
6. When the 3 minutes is up, the activity leader will say stop and the participants will stop
throwing the paper balls
7. The activity leader will count the number of paper balls on each side
8. The team with the higher number of paper balls on their side is the losing team
9. Repeat step 4 until a team reaches 2 points, the first team to reach 2 points is the winner
e. Primary interaction pattern(s) Derived from your activity analysis, which should be attached.
*Note: Two different types of activity analyses forms will be used. For your first two activities, use
Stumbo and Peterson and for your third activity use Porter.
Multilateral because two or more people are working to compete against the other team with no
single person as the antagonist. (see activity analysis form below)
f. One researched adaptation specific to a disability group. Be specific. For example, saying someone
has anger issues is not a disorder. However, a person with anger issues might be diagnosed with
conduct disorder. You may not use a particular disability or disorder more than one time.
The Snowball Fight activity would work well to be adapted with individuals who had a stroke. If
a patient has a stroke that is moderate to severe, a loss of sitting balance is often one of the main
issues that needs to be worked on. If sitting balance is not addressed safely, the patient will not be able
to stand safely so sitting balance must be worked on first.
In order to work on sitting balance, the patient would need to be sitting in a chair. Due to this,
the activity would be adapted by having the participants sit in chairs to play the game instead of
standing to play the game. Having the participants sit in a chair would make the activity more safe
because everyone would be able to safely sit in a chair and not worry about losing their balance while
playing. Sitting exercises that primarily help improve sitting balance are shifting your weight forward
and reaching forward towards the weak side, or the side affected by the stroke. Both of these exercises
can be addressed through having individuals participate in this activity.
While sitting down and throwing the paper balls, the participants could be working on
hemiplegia/hemiparesis. After having a stroke, paralysis or weakness of varying degree is common. In
order to work on this, patients can work on range of motion and strengthening that side of their body.
By throwing with their weaker arm, the participants are able to work on strengthening their arm
muscles and also increase their range of motion in that arm because they are using it to throw as
opposed to just keeping it by their side.

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