Setting: at home or in a chair or desk setting
Materials:
Book
One Handed Page Holder
Instructions:
1. Open book to desired page and put the book holder across putting your thumb up through the hole and holding the back side of the book with your fingers.
Purpose: This is to increase the ability for an individual to be able to read that has limited wrist and hand strength to hold the pages open while reading. As long as the individual had thumb opposition, strength, and mobility the person can successfully read independently. Dexterity would need to be used in order for the person to turn the pages with their opposite hand and the use of across the body if the device was held with the right hand and turning the pages with the left.
BuzzFeed Inc. (2012). Borderline Geniuses: Book
Page Holder.
Retrieved from: http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/borderline-geniuses-281t
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