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a. Activity Title:
Ante-Up Game

b. Sources for your activity and for your adaptations (APA citations):
Dixon, C. C. (n.d.) Therapeutic Recreation Activities & Tx Ideas: Quiet Games. Retrieved
November 26, 2017 from https://www.recreationtherapy.com/tx/txgmpsv.htm

DynaMed Plus (2017). Down Syndrome. Retrieved from

https://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115414/Down-syndrome

National Down Syndrome Society (2017). Down Syndrome. Retrieved from

http://www.ndss.org/about-down-syndrome/down-syndrome/

Stumbo, N. J., & Peterson, C. A. (2010). Chapter 7 . In Therapeutic recreation program design
principles and procedures (PP. 176-208). San Francisco, CA: Pearson Benjamin Cummings.

c. Equipment:
- A jar of pennies (about 25 per person and 100 more for the "pot").
- Index cards and a writing utensil (you will write down one question or scenario on each index
card before the game can be played).

d. Task Analysis:
Step 1: First, buy a jar if not already have one. You can use a large bowl instead if you do not
want to use a jar.
Step 2: Second, you will also need to buy index cards and a writing utensil if you do not already
have either of these items. You will write down one question or scenario on each index card
before the game can be played. For example, you can write questions or scenarios like, If you
like ice-cream, give a penny to each person in the circle or If you have ever been on the
beach, take a penny from the pot.
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Step 3: Third, you will need to have a lot of pennies, specifically 100 pennies for the jarl/bowl
(pot) and 25 pennies for each person participating in the game. This game can be played with
a small or large group of people.
Step 4: Once these first steps are completed, you will address everyone participating in the
game to sit around in a circle.
Step 5: Next, you will make sure that 25 pennies are to be placed in from of each person.
Step 6: Then, the pot of pennies will be placed in the middle of the circle.
Step 7: Each participant will take turns reading a card out loud to the group in the circle and
follow what the directions tell him or her to do. At the end of each of the cards written
question or scenario, the reader will either give or take a penny.
Step 8: Finally, the participant with the most pennies at the end of the game wins! This game
can end whenever. It can go for as long as 15 minutes, a half hour, or more if desired to.

This game can be a fun game for socializing, can be good for people to be able to get to know
others, and more. Have fun playing Ante-Up!

e. Primary interaction pattern(s):

Multilateral The activity can be done with three or more persons and no one person is the
antagonist.
Intragroup The activity can be done with two or more persons and there is a goal of this
activity. This activity requires positive verbal and non-verbal interaction.
Attached within this submission are two different types of Activity Analysis forms that state this
information and more.

f. One researched adaptation specific to a disability group:

For the activity, I am focusing mainly on individuals with developmental disabilities (Down
Syndrome). This activity can help increase social skills, practice in distinguishing between
appropriate and inappropriate social skills/boundaries, assistance with difficulty in thinking,
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understanding, and with developmental delays like speech delay. It can be an exciting and fun
activity, especially because it can be competitive which can be fun for some individuals. Any age
group can play this game which can be wonderful. Down Syndrome is a genetic chromosome 21
disorder that causes developmental and intellectual delays. This syndrome is specifically
characterized by medical conditions, numerous malformations, and cognitive impairment that
is due to an extra generic material on chromosome 21 (DynaMed Plus, 2017). This extra generic
material on chromosome 21 can be when an individual has a full or partial extra copy of this
chromosome (National Down Syndrome Society, 2017). Interestingly, one in every 700 babies
born in the United States are born with Down Syndrome, which makes this syndrome the most
common chromosomal condition according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(National Down Syndrome Society, 2017). Based on what individuals with Down Syndrome can
experience, like difficulty in thinking, understanding, and speech, the activity Ante-Up can be a
wonderful activity to help individuals with developmental disabilities improve their speech,
cognition, social skills, and more. A helpful adaption for this activity can be to instead of only
having questions like, if you like ice-cream, give a penny to each person in the circle, you can
do scenarios to help practice in distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate social
skills/boundaries like, if you think it is appropriate to yell across the room to get someones
attention, give the person to your right a penny. If the person does this action for the specific
scenario I have just stated, then the facilitator in the game will tell the participant to put a
penny in the jar for thinking it can be right, and to then tell them why it can be wrong to do that
action. This game seems like a fun game to play with a group of people and I look forward to
using this game in the future.