Visual Activity Sort

The Visual Activity Sort (VAS) is a picture-based tool that helps a therapist quickly learn what activities matter most to a client: their interests, motivations, and how an illness or injury has changed their participation in daily life. Because it relies on images rather than words, it's designed to work for clients with a range of communication and cognitive abilities.

Therapists sort through picture cards representing common activities with the client, discussing interest, motivation, pain, and emotional response tied to each one, then use the results to build a therapy plan centered on what's meaningful to that person. It's marketed for use across home health, mental health, and outpatient settings with a wide age range. This is a commercially published clinical tool rather than a peer-reviewed psychometric instrument.