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Welcome to a world of enhanced productivity, laser-sharp concentration, and improved cognitive abilities. Our attention worksheets for adults in PDF format are your key to mastering the art of focused thinking. In truth our carefully crafted worksheets may empower you to reclaim your focus and thrive in today’s fast-paced world.

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Displaced Characters

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Exercise working memory and attention skills with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Displaced Characters, you’ll observe characters such as letters from different languages on either side of a page, then be asked to find which characters are on one side but not the other. This exercise targets memory and attention skills, requiring you to keep the characters in mind as you visually scan the page. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve memory and visual scanning, such as finding important information in a document or selecting the correct medications to pull from a cabinet.

This mini packet is great for adults working on verbal and spatial memory skills.

Included inside: 6 pages of memory and attention worksheets and bridging questions.

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Words, Where Are You?

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Exercise verbal memory and spatial memory skills with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Words, Where Are You?, you’ll observe words in a grid, then be asked to place words from a word bank into a grid from memory. This exercise targets memory and spatial skills, requiring you to not only recall words, but also their locations. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve verbal and spatial memory, such as recalling which medications to take or where to find items in the grocery store.

This mini packet is great for adults working on verbal and spatial memory skills.

Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.

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Mini Packet #127

Pay Attention

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Exercise working memory and attention skills with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Pay Attention, you’ll observe a pattern made up of shapes, then be asked to draw the pattern from memory. This exercise targets memory and attention skill, requiring you to not only recall information, but draw it. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve working memory, such as writing down a phone number you just heard, or following a recipe.

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

Included inside: 6 pages of working memory worksheets and bridging questions.

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Mini Packet #123

Catch the Ladybug

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Hit the field with this American Football-themed mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on attention, visual scanning, and processing speed skills. Inspired by our digital exercise, Catch the Ladybug, you’ll be asked to find a number of footballs on a page, with increasingly distracting backgrounds. This exercise targets attention and processing speed, requiring you to visually scan the page and circle the correct items as quickly as possible. These skills contribute to daily tasks like looking for items in a cluttered drawer, finding the right medication in the cabinet, driving, and reading.

This mini packet is great for children and individuals working on attention and visual scanning skills.

Included inside: 6 pages of attention worksheets and bridging questions.

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Mini Packet #122

This Story is Full of Blanks!

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Celebrate the season with an autumnal mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on language skills such as verbal memory and lexical meaning. Inspired by our digital exercise, This Story is Full of Blanks, you’ll be asked to fill blanks in a paragraph, using a word bank. This exercise targets verbal memory, requiring you to utilize context clues, understand word meanings, and think strategically. These skills contribute to daily tasks like texting, having a conversation, writing a letter, or understanding a book or movie.

This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults.

Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets and bridging questions.

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Mini Packet #121

Basketball in NY

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Celebrate spooky season with this ghostly (but cute) mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on executive function skills such as planning and reasoning. Inspired by our digital exercise, Basketball in NY, you’ll be asked to mentally move ghosts in order to recreate an example image, in the fewest moves possible. This exercise targets executive functioning and spatial reasoning skills, requiring you to mentally move objects, utilize your working memory, and think strategically. These skills contribute to daily tasks like grocery shopping, planning an event, organizing items in your home, or solving a difficult problem.

This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults.

Included inside: 10 pages of executive function worksheets, and bridging questions.

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Mini Packet #120

Entangled Figures

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Get ready for the autumn harvest with this mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on visual-spatial and executive function skills. Inspired by our digital exercise, Entangled Figures, you’ll be asked to look at a complex image made up of several simpler images, and determine which simple images make up the tangled figure. This exercise targets visual-spatial and executive function skills, requiring you to visually scan for memorable shapes, hold them in your working memory, mentally rotate them, and problem-solve as you mentally detangle the images. You also need to utilize inhibition skills and not act too hastily – taking your time figuring out the problem will likely lead to more accurate answers. These skills contribute to daily tasks like navigating a new environment, planning appointments, planning a grocery shopping trip, and navigating using adaptive equipment such as a wheelchair.

This mini packet is great for all ages!

Included inside: 10 pages of executive function worksheets, and bridging questions.

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Focused Attention

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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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Mini-packet #119

Under Pressure

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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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Mini-packet #112

Ancient Writing

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Explore ancient language with this fun attention and visual memory mini packet! These visual attention worksheets use characters from the Scandinavian runic alphabet to help clients exercise their attention and working memory skills.

Inspired by our digital exercise, Ancient Writing, this mini packet asks you to make note of differences in two sets of characters using an alphabet that may be unfamiliar to the user. More characters are added as the exercises progress, requiring the user to visually scan a wider range of information before making note of the differences between the two sets.

Comparing visual information is something that we do in daily life. These skills come into play when comparing two pill bottles to remember which one to take, and when using the various controls on the dashboard of a car. This exercise is designed to work on visual working memory and visual attention skills. Challenge your brain’s capacity to handle tasks that demand working memory and attention!

Included inside: 9 pages of visual attention worksheets and bridging questions.

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Displaced Images

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Dive deep into an ocean of fun and challenge your visual attention skills with this sea creature-themed mini cognitive exercise packet. Based on our popular digital exercise, “Displaced Images,” this packet engages users in spotting differences among various sea creatures, requiring focused concentration and careful observation to determine which images don’t match. This mini packet is designed to work on visual attention—a crucial skill for daily life—while providing an engaging and stimulating experience for anyone working on their cognitive skills.

This packet is designed to support individuals who may struggle with visual attention due to a learning disability, aging, stroke, or brain injury. It provides a gentle but effective way to practice attentional skills in a targeted format that is accessible and engaging.

The fun underwater theme makes this mini packet a great option for adolescents and adults!

Included inside: 12 pages of visual attention worksheets, and bridging questions.

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Working Memory

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Get ready for a fun and engaging way to exercise your working memory and sustained attention with this Halloween-themed cognitive exercise packet! Perfect for those looking to work on fundamental cognitive skills, this packet is built around four exciting exercises that challenge you to stay focused and hold information in your memory. These exercises require careful focus and recall, asking users to spot differences, sort numbers, and interpret complex visual patterns. This packet is designed to help you work on sustained attention and exercise your ability to remember and work with information over short periods.

Exercises:

Displaced Characters – In this exercise, users must spot the differences between two lists of figures.

The Right Count – Sort numbers into a specific order from a randomized list as quickly as you can

Ancient Writing – Test your attention skills by identifying subtle differences between two series of symbols

Entangled Figures – Practice attention and visualization by determining which figures combine to form a larger image

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

What is inside: 28 attention and working memory worksheets and bridging questions.

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What is Attention?

Attention is a cognitive process that involves focusing one’s mental resources on a specific aspect of the environment, information, or task while filtering out other competing stimuli. It is the ability to selectively concentrate on certain inputs, thoughts, or actions while ignoring distractions or less relevant information. It plays a crucial role in various cognitive functions and daily activities.

Why use our Attention Worksheets & Activities?

Our worksheets engage several different cognitive dimensions of attention. Here are a few that they may engage.

Visual Focus:

All of our attention worksheets are creatively designed to challenge your ability to focus on unique details. These activities may require you to identify subtle differences, enhancing your visual attention and observation skills.
Auditory:

Sharpen your listening skills and selective attention with the auditory-based activities we offer. These exercises may help individuals better identify specific sounds within a complex auditory environment.
Sustained Concentration:

With all of our worksheets, they will require time to complete. In view of our fast-paced world, these worksheets might just boost your ability to sustain attention over longer periods. This skill is crucial for tasks that demand prolonged focus.

Advantages of our Attention Worksheets PDF:

Our attention-enhancing worksheets are available for download in PDF format, allowing for easy access anytime, anywhere. With a variety of exercises included in each packet, we aim to prevent monotony and promote comprehensive cognitive growth. You’ll never find the same combination of exercises in any of our packets, as we are dedicated to providing you with the variety you need. Our worksheets are backed by science and developed using our digital tool that’s rooted in research.

Scientifically Backed: Our digital tool inspires all of our worksheets. And our digital tool is rooted in science. Want to see more about our research? check out all of our research here →

Who can use these Attention Activities?

Initially designed for professionals, these worksheets can be used with all ages to practice and work on attention skills.

With this purpose, we aim to support the community of healthcare professionals, teachers, and school educators who help individuals with their attention skills by regularly adding new and different attention-based resources.

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Social Cognition

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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.

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Language

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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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Executive Function

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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.

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General Memory

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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.

Bundle + Save

Bundles are a great way to buy more and save more! If you were to buy all of these packets separately, you would pay more than $75. Because we’ve bundled it, you’re getting an instant saving of over 20%! Our bundles are designed to help you buy workbooks for your patients.

What’s included inside: Instant PDF downloads of 6 packets or 99 unique worksheets.

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Our digital exercise Gulf Streams challenges your patient’s memory, visual attention skills, and process speed. This print version will challenge your patient’s short-term memory and visual attention skills. In this packet, your patient will have to learn the names of and what they look like of different fish to be successful with this packet. They will then have to count and study a tank full of fish. Finally, they will have to answer questions about the tank, the fish, and the environment. This packet has endless amounts of opportunities to play well beyond our packet.

This packet is great for all ages! Your senior patients will love the challenge, your pediatric patients will love the fish, and you will enjoy giving out this fun-filled packet.

Included: 7 worksheets, bridging questions, and an answer key.

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Writing in the Stars

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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.

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Words, Where Are You?

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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!

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Work on auditory processing and verbal memory with this hybrid mini packet with a video component! Inspired by our digital exercise, You’ve Got Voicemail, you’ll listen to a voicemail and then be asked to recall information that you’ve heard. This exercise targets memory and auditory skills, requiring you recall specific auditory information. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve auditory processing and memory, such as having a conversation, listening to a lecture, participating in a work meeting, or watching a movie.

This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults working on verbal memory and auditory skills.

Included inside: 6 pages of auditory memory worksheets and bridging questions.

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Work on math skills with this mini packet! These arithmetic worksheets will help you work on executive function skills like problem solving and planning. Inspired by our digital exercise, Countdown, you’ll be given several numbers to work with, and asked to use them in equations that lead to a specific number. This exercise targets executive function skills, requiring you to utilize trial and error, arithmetic, and planning skills to find the answer. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve planning and trial and error, like cooking, writing, and budgeting.

This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults working on executive function and arithmetic skills.

Included inside: 6 pages of math worksheets and bridging questions.

If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other executive function worksheets today! →

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