Find with Focus | Wooden Visual Scanning Activity

Find with Focus is a hands-on visual scanning activity designed to encourage attention, observation, and visual search through engaging, tactile play. The activity includes 80 engraved wooden pieces in two sizes that can be scattered across the included 8.5" x 11" Visual Scanning Tray. The Large Wooden Pieces and Small Wooden Pieces allow the activity to be easily adapted from simple visual searches to more advanced scanning and attention challenges.

Unlike fixed search activities, every session can be different. Rearranging the pieces creates new visual layouts, while the person guiding the activity controls the arrangement of the pieces and the instructions, making the activity suitable for a wide range of ability levels.

Participants can search for matching pieces, identify specific objects, sort items into groups, count selected pieces, or follow increasingly complex directions. The tactile wooden pieces encourage reaching, grasping, and manipulating objects throughout the activity, creating an engaging hands-on experience that can be adapted for a wide variety of visual scanning and attention tasks.

Adjustable Difficulty

The included Instruction Guide provides activity ideas ranging from beginner to advanced, and the challenge can be adjusted by:

• Using only the Large Wooden Pieces for simpler visual searches.
• Mixing Large Wooden Pieces and Small Wooden Pieces for increased complexity.
• Following one-step or multi-step verbal directions.
• Creating matching, sorting, counting, or memory activities.
• Increasing the number of target pieces or distractors.

Skills Practiced

Find with Focus provides opportunities to practice:

• Visual Scanning
• Selective Attention
• Visual Discrimination
• Object Identification
• Matching
• Categorization
• Following Directions
• Hand-Eye Coordination
• Fine Motor Control

Suitable For

Suitable for home, caregiver-guided, educational, and professional activity settings, including:

• Occupational Therapy
• Speech-Language Pathology
• Cognitive Rehabilitation Programs
• Skilled Nursing Activity Programs
• Assisted Living Activity Programs
• Memory Care Activity Programs

Product Features

• Handcrafted in the USA
• Precision laser engraved wooden components
• Engraved Wooden Visual Scanning Tray
• Endless activity possibilities with rearrangeable pieces

Includes

• 1 Engraved Wooden Visual Scanning Tray (8.5" x 11")
• 20 Large Wooden Pieces
• 60 Small Wooden Pieces
• Instruction Guide

Find with Focus was designed by Pete Janelle and is handcrafted in our Hudson, Florida workshop. It is one of the Purpose-Built Activities in our Cognitive Challenge Series, the pieces we designed for adult cognitive and language practice from the start.

These are not medical devices. They are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent dementia, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, memory loss, or any other condition. For questions about activities for a loved one, please consult a qualified healthcare provider.