Give your cognitive skills a real challenge with these executive function worksheets, designed to strengthen working memory and sharpen strategy and inhibition skills. Inspired by our popular digital exercise Decipher, your client will need to decode a piece of text based on the symbols provided. As the levels get harder, less and less clues are given. This mini packet is perfect for those working on using context clues, verbal working memory, inhibitory control, or strategy skills.
Perfect for those working on the following skills:
This packet is recommended for adults due to how difficult this exercise can be, but teens looking for a challenge can give it a try too!
Included inside: 6 pages of working memory worksheets and bridging questions.
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Let’s go to the beach! In this packet, your patient will engage their working and visual memory and attention with a fun twisted-printed version of Heraldry. Your patient will have to study a towel, sort some numbers, and then recreate the towel. This packet will be an excellent tool for your students returning from summer break—clients who will be going on a trip or if they love the beach.
Challenge your patient’s math skills with this multi-level math worksheet packet. Based on our digital exercise, Countdown, your students will have to solve math equations and then figure out a solution. Your students will start with simple addition and subtraction, and the packet will progressively increase in difficulty. This packet could be an excellent bridging tool to be used to teach ways how to manage money.
We hope your patients will enjoy this essential math skills packet. This packet is best suitable for students nine and older to engage their brains after a summer off. We recommend this packet for groups, adults, and anyone looking for a simple math challenge.
Included inside: 6 worksheets and bridging questions.
Step into the holiday spirit with our festive and engaging activity: Holiday Scene Search! Channel your inner Sherlock Holmes as you embark on a search for hidden presents and decorative items in each holiday scene. This fun and interactive worksheet sharpens executive functioning skills while spreading holiday cheer. Based on our digital exercise, Private Eye, your client will have a blast discovering this scene and searching for the items in question.
What is trained?
As you navigate through the holiday scenes, you’ll exercise essential executive functioning skills, including attention to detail, visual perception, and cognitive flexibility. By honing these skills, your client will not only become a master at finding hidden treasures. You may also engage your client’s ability to stay organized and attentive in various tasks and activities.
Whether you’re preparing holiday cards, organizing decorations, or simply enjoying the festive season, Holiday Scene Search offers a delightful way to challenge your client’s cognitive abilities while indulging in the holiday spirit. We believe that this mini will be great for all ages! Children aged 3+ will love the scene exploration.
What’s inside: 6 pages and bridging questions
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Practice visual working memory and recalling sequences with this mini packet. Inspired by our digital exercise, N-Back, you’ll need to remember a specific sequence of colors in the correct order, recalling longer sequences as the levels get more difficult.
The cognitive abilities used in this exercise are important for skills such as remembering items on a to-do list or following a recipe.
Included inside: 12 pages of visual working memory worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Correctly pairing symbols with meaningful letters requires attention to detail, working memory, and the use of both grammar and context clues. Your client will have to use the help or given vowels or consonants, or attempt to solve the puzzle through trial and error. Using working memory, your client must identify which letters have been correctly paired and use the solved character-letter pairings to figure out the remaining unknown character-letter pairings.
Recognizing emotions in others can be difficult for clients with psychological disorders and developmental disabilities. This worksheet based on the exercise I Remember You provides exercises that tap your client’s ability to recognize and distinguish different emotions in others’ faces. By practicing the exercises in this worksheet, your clients may also build more confidence in social situations. Work on social cognition skills with your client today!
Include inside: 1 worksheet and bridging question.
Are you looking for language activities for dementia patients? Language is a complex cognitive skill. It involves executive functioning, memory, and visual and auditory processing skills. Sometimes, people with dementia struggle with one or more aspects of language, such as word retrieval. That is why we developed this packet. We wanted to create a packet to help improve language skills that are often inhibited in individuals with dementia.
In this workbook, we have provided 4 exercises that target different cognitive skills involved in language skills. We have a verbal memory exercise, Words, Where are you? We have a visual attention exercise, Private Eye. Additionally, we have a word-categorizing activity, Secret Files, and lastly, a language-inferring activity, Embroidery.
This packet will be great to be used for seniors, anyone looking for printable activities for dementia patients, or anyone looking for language-based activities. If you love this packet, we highly recommend you try our digital program. Each one of these exercises is even better on the digital program.
Included inside: 13 worksheets and bridging questions.
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Deductive reasoning is the main focus of this packet. Deductive reasoning is used during any planning and decision-making cognitive functions. In this packet, your client will perform varying exercises. They will have to move basketballs mentally. Decipher what a symbol could symbolically mean in a mathematical equation. Complete a variety of mathematical equations ranging from easy to complex. And lastly, move rings on a stick to build various towers. These exercises will challenge their abilities to inhibit unwanted responses, shift between tasks, perform mental manipulations, and make choices.
Your students will enjoy the mental challenges needed to complete these tasks. This packet is great for clients with attention deficit disorder, brain injury, stroke, or experiencing cognitive difficulties related to psychosis.
included inside: 20 worksheets and bridging questions.
This is one of our first Memory bundle available. This memory bundle is a great bundle for an general all over memory exercise program. Memory is one of the foundation skills of cognitive functions, if we are experiencing challenges with our memory it can be hard to engage with our families and friends. By exercising your memory, you may see an improvement of your ability to recall information or remember where you placed things.
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What’s included inside: Instant PDF downloads of 6 packets or 99 unique worksheets.
Challenge your patient’s ability to visually break apart words and deductively place them on the chart. Based on our digital exercise, Writing in the Stars, this packet is a great way to challenge your patient’s deductive spatial reasoning skills! Clients must determine which word could fit in which space on the star. At first, some of the charts come prefilled. Eventually, there will not be any assistance, and your patient has to choose words from the word bank. The progression of the packet increases slightly. The goal is that by the end of the exercise, your patient will feel more confident using their deductive skills. We love this exercise in our digital tool. If your patients enjoy this packet, they will love playing this activity digitally.
This packet is great for students ages 12 and older. Individuals looking for fun brain deductive spatial reasoning activities will enjoy the challenges within these pages. Additionally, we hope your patients will enjoy using this packet in a session with you or as part of their home exercises.
Included inside: 4 worksheets and bridging questions.
Can you remember a shopping list? What about the locations of different items on that list? Sharpen your verbal memory and executive function skills with this word and spatial memorization task, based on the exercise Words Where Are You? This exercise focuses on executive functioning skills such as working memory, attention, and task initiation!
Challenge your patient’s visual scanning and semantic memory in this mini packet! Your client must scan the letter grid to determine what word is hidden within the grid. These worksheets are printable versions of our digital exercise, Embroidery. As your client progresses, the hints will decrease, and the difficulty of the words will increase. This entire packet is around the theme of objects found within the ocean.
This packet will be great for individuals looking to challenge their ability to use their visual scanning ability and draw information and conclude what words are presented. Use this within your post-stroke support groups, inside of your classrooms of middle schoolers, or as an earth day activity to do with your patients.
Include inside: 10 worksheets, answer keys, and bridging questions.
Ready to be an editor? Miss MadLibs? Read different passages and fill in the blanks with this fun verbal reasoning activity. This exercise focuses on executive functioning skills such as working memory, attention, and metacognition. This is perfect for anyone looking to hone their verbal processing skills as well as working memory abilities!
Ready for a memory challenge? Engage your client’s attention and working memory skills using this mini hybrid packet. Find Your Way takes on a new face (or should we say bill) with this cognitive exercise packet. This activity primarily exercises executive functioning skills such as your client’s Attention Skills.
Join in the summer fun with this backyard barbecue themed packet! These visual-spatial worksheets will help you practice pattern recognition, encouraging skills like attention, visual scanning, mental rotation, memory, and more. Based on our digital exercises, the skills practiced in these worksheets can benefit daily life. Pattern recognition is critical for grocery shopping, driving, recognizing an item in a cluttered drawer, and proofreading a text.
Ancient Writing: Find differences between two sets of images.
Find Your Way: Memorize then recreate a path between stones.
Sleight of Hands: Determine if images of hands are showing left or right hands.
Private Eye: Locate an image within a grid of similar images.
This packet is great for all ages!
What’s inside: 30 pattern recognition worksheets and bridging questions.
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Practice verbal memory with this sunny Summer-themed packet! These verbal memory worksheets contain a variety of exercises to work on vocabulary recall and verbal working memory. Based on our digital exercises, the skills practiced in these worksheets can benefit daily life. Verbal memory is crucial for skills like reading, following signs or GPS while driving, and social interactions, such as remembering peoples’ names and information about them.
Elephant Memory: Memorize words, and then find them within lists from memory.
This Story is Full of Blanks!: Complete quotes by selecting words from a word bank.
Root It Out: Users recall nouns derived from a given root.
Restaurant: Memorize guest names and seating arrangement, and give each guest the correct order.
This packet is great for adolescents and adults.
What’s inside: 36 verbal memory worksheets and bridging questions.
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Hop in and practice executive function skills in this waterway-themed packet! This packet focuses on inhibition skills, with exercises that require you to consider options and plan ahead before completing an action. Based on our digital exercises, this packet is full of inhibition worksheets that exercise skills that can benefit daily life. Inhibition skills are critical for daily tasks like communicating appropriately, picking out items when grocery shopping, and driving.
Towers of Hanoi: Build a tower of rings with minimal moves while adhering to rules
Hurray for Change: Connect numbers and letters or words in order as quickly as possible
Gulf Stream: Memorize a fish and identify when it crosses the screen, with increasing speed levels
Writing in the Stars: Connect words in the right configuration to form a star
This packet is great for adolescents and adults.
What’s inside: 30 inhibition worksheets and bridging questions.
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Leap into Springtime with this refreshing packet! These receptive language worksheets include exercises to work on reading, comprehension, and verbal memory. Based on our digital exercises, this packet will help you work on language skills, as well as working memory and attention. These skills are critical for daily tasks like engaging in conversation, participating in workplace meetings, reading, and cooking from a recipe.
Embroidery: Find the hidden word in a grid of letters
You’ve Got Voicemail: Memorize key details from a message and answer questions about them.
Split Words: Put together word fragments fitting a theme.
Seize the Keywords: Read a passage and recall the verbs in the correct order.
This packet is great for adolescents and adults.
What’s inside: 36 receptive language worksheets and bridging questions.
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Go for an adventure on the high seas with this pirate treasure-themed packet! These spatial memory worksheets invite you to memorize fun images and treasure maps, and recall their locations. Based on our digital exercises, this packet will help you work on visual-spatial skills, working memory, and attention. The spatial memory skills that this packet encourages are needed for daily tasks such as locating items in your home, reading a GPS while driving, and recalling where important apps are on your phone.
Private Eye: Look for a specific image in a grid of similar images.
Turn Around and Around: Mentally rotate objects to see which one differs from the rest.
Objects, Where Are You?: Remember images and their location in a grid, then place them correctly from memory.
An American in Paris: Memorize names of places, images associated with them, and their locations on a map.
This packet is great for all ages.
What’s inside: 37 spatial memory worksheets and bridging questions.
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With this Toxic Productivity Checklist, you can get to know your client’s relationship with productivity, and use it to inform your treatment plan! We offer a variety of session resources for clinicians to use in order to get to know their clients, take notes, provide supplemental activities, and more.
Perfect for fostering growth, mindfulness, and organization, our session resources printables are ideal for use in therapy sessions and as take-home activities. Download and print as needed to support your clients’ journey toward well-being and personal development.
What’s included:
Work on visual working memory with this adventurous camping-themed mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Chunking, you’ll be asked to recall images of camping items within a grid, and then place them correctly on a blank grid. This exercise targets visual working memory, which is necessary for real-life tasks like cooking, grocery shopping, driving, and much more. It also targets visual-spatial skills which are necessary for navigating the world, remembering where you placed objects, and more!
This mini packet is great for kids and adolescents, and anyone working on visual and working memory skills.
Included inside: 12 pages of visual working memory worksheets, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Practice memorizing visual sequences with this ice cream-themed hybrid mini packet. Inspired by our digital exercise, Find Your Way, you’ll need to remember a path between different colors of ice cream scoops on the screen, and then recall them in order to construct a delicious ice cream cone in the worksheet packet. Working between screen and paper provides an extra challenge for exercising your memory!
The cognitive skills used in this exercise are used for daily tasks such as creating a to do list in a logical order, or remembering the steps to a recipe.
Included inside: 6 pages of visual memory worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Practice verbal memory, language comprehension, and inhibitory control with these hybrid verbal memory worksheets with a video component! Inspired by our digital exercise, Secret Files, you’ll need to sort words into categories, and figure out what the categories are as the levels get more difficult.
The cognitive skills used in this exercise are important for skills such as organizing and strategizing. These skills are used when creating a to-do list, sorting items in your home, and holding information in your brain such as the people you’re inviting to a party.
Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other language worksheets today! →
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