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Executive Functions

Can you play ball while telling time? Try your hand at these planning exercises in this executive functioning packet.  We’ll challenge you to complete crossword puzzles in one try and find a way to arrive at a given solution using a set of numbers and operators. Download this executive functioning packet today!

This packet is great for elementary school kids and middle schoolers. You can use it for adults in group therapy as a warm-up or as a communication-building exercise. The uses for these planning exercises is limitless.

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Included inside: 10 worksheets and bridging questions.

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Who let the dogs out!? Seriously, who let the dogs take over this attention worksheet? If you are looking for a great dog-themed attention worksheet, then look no further. This packet works on all major areas of attention but with a fun dog twist. Your client will have fun engaging their visual attention skills, their visual-spatial skills, and their ability to follow complex paths. Visual attention is an essential element of cognitive functions, we know that not every activity on the internet is fun and engaging. That is why we developed this fun packet to work on visual attention skills. This packet has the following exercises: Displaced Images, Gulf Stream, Dance with the Fireflies, and entangled figures. 

If you enjoy these worksheets, make sure to try the digital versions of the exercises. We recommend this packet for all ages. We believe adults will benefit as much as a preschooler will as they practice this packet. We personally think the Dance with Fireflies, a dog walking path edition, is a fun way to practice working memory, visual attention, and spatial reasoning. Let us know what you think of this dog-themed attention worksheet! 

Included inside: 31 worksheets and bridging questions.

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Recognizing emotions in others can be difficult. For clients with psychological disorders as well as developmental disabilities, this can be a challenge. We designed this packet to be focused on recognizing and understanding emotions.

The first activity in this packet will focus on sorting faces based on whether they are smiling. This basic skill is needed to understand facial reactions within a social situation. The next exercise section is correctly naming and placing the emotional emoji on one side of the chart. This may work on a person’s ability to carry visual information from one section to another. Next, your patient will have to remember emotions with individuals expressing them. This may help them to learn how to categorize emotions and be able to recall them later on. The last section focuses on verbally understanding words and how they relate. Your patient will have to sort a list of words into certain categories.

From sorting faces based upon emotion, recognizing emotions, and being able to sort them, we hope your patient enjoys these emotion-centered worksheets today! This packet will be great for individuals with low social cognition skills. Preschoolers and children will also enjoy using this packet.

Included: 19 worksheets and bridging questions.

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Semantic (category) fluency and letter (phonemic) fluency are the focus of this worksheet packet. Displaced Characters is the first exercise. Your patient will have to read words on one side of the paper and figure out which word is missing on the other side. This game increases in difficulty when your patient has to do this with an entire sentence. Next, your patient will have to figure out what fragments of words can create full words in our printed version of Split Words. The following exercise in this worksheet packet is Decipher. Your patient will have to decipher these very long quotes from famous people. But don’t worry, we’ve given your patients hints. The last exercise works specifically on semantic or category fluency. Your patient will have to sort lists of words into categories.

This packet is excellent for elementary school students and children with reading disabilities. Individuals who have aphasia or have experienced a decline in verbal functioning skills may also find this packet enjoyable.

Included inside: 25 worksheets and bridging questions.

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Unearth new cognitive skills with this earth science-themed cognitive exercise packet! Designed to engage and challenge, this packet incorporates a variety of fun exercises that target expressive language, verbal recall, and memory. Featuring exciting tasks such as assembling jumbled word fragments, finding hidden words, and decoding symbols into meaningful text, this packet offers a dynamic way to practice key cognitive skills while learning about the fascinating world of earth science.

Exercises:

Split Words – Assemble jumbled word fragments to create meaningful earth science terms, practicing problem-solving and expressive language.

Embroidery – Search for hidden earth science-related words in a grid of letters, sharpening attention to detail and verbal recall.

Seize the Keywords – Memorize and recall specific words from a text about earth science topics, strengthening verbal working memory and sequencing skills.

Decipher – Decode symbols to uncover earth science facts and terms, challenging users to connect visual and verbal information.

This packet is great for adolescents, as well as adults looking to exercise foundational cognitive skills after an injury or stroke.

What is inside: 32 expressive language worksheets and bridging questions.

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The digital exercises that inspired this worksheet

Countdown

Using strategic planning, reasoning, and cognitive flexibility, your client must try to decipher how to arrive at a given solution using the given numbers, given operators, as well as the results of their steps to arrive at a specific solution. This exercise highly targets executive functioning, but also targets working memory by way of requiring your client to remember which numbers and operators they have used and keep track of unsuccessful attempts so as to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Your client must develop and implement strategies for effective planning while also practicing how to effectively solve problems using some degree of trial and error.

Basketball in NY

Looking at the configuration of basketballs, your clients will have to mentally manipulate the basketballs into the correct hoops in as few moves as possible. Working memory and planning are challenged in this exercise, as clients must view the desired configuration and plan the most effective way to reach it. This exercise also helps with inhibition, as unplanned actions can cause more steps needed to solve the problem.

Writing in the Stars

Like a crossword puzzle, this exercise trains planning, working memory, and organization. Using the subtle clues of how many letters are in a word, what words are available, and what words share common characteristics, clients will be challenged to effectively plan and reason in order to correctly place the words in the correct order. If your client requires multiple attempts to solve the puzzle, you may want to assist them in developing effective planning strategies.

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Get ready to work on attention skills for the new school year with this back-to-school packet! These focused attention worksheets will help you practice working memory, visual scanning, and spatial awareness skills.  Based on our digital exercises, the skills practiced in these worksheets can benefit daily life. Focused attention is critical for most daily activities! Tasks like personal hygiene, reading, writing, cooking, driving, and socializing all require focused attention.

Exercises:

An American in Paris: Memorize travel itineraries by memorizing landmarks and grid locations.

Two-Timing: Complete this visual and auditory task simultaneously.

Ready, Steady, Count: Memorize numbers and operators to solve math questions.

Secret Files: Swiftly categorize words before they vanish.

 

This packet is great for adolescents and adults.

What’s inside: 32 focused attention worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.

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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.

Exercises:

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.

Exercises:

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.

Exercises:

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.

Exercises:

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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Up for a little celebration? Throughout Fall 2025, we’re celebrating 25 years since HappyNeuron was founded! Work on attention and processing speed in this mini packet, with a celebratory theme! Inspired by our digital exercise, Under Pressure, you’ll be asked to pay attention to stimuli on the screen, and determine whether they are higher or lower than preceding stimuli. This exercise targets processing speed, spatial awareness, and attention skills. These skills are vital for daily tasks like quickly finding an item in a full closet, and paying attention to obstacles and signs while driving.

This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults working on processing speed skills.

Included inside: 3 pages of attention/processing speed worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.

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toxic-productivity

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:

  •  1 PDF file which includes Toxic Productivity checklist, and recommended intervention strategies

 

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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! → 

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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.

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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! → 

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