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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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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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Immerse yourself in the sounds of the rainforest while boosting your auditory processing and memory skills with this hybrid video mini packet. Based on our popular digital exercise, The Squeaking Mouse, this mini packet challenges you to listen to animal sounds and match them to the corresponding rainforest creatures. By combining fun, interactive video components with practical cognitive exercises, this packet offers an engaging way to strengthen your ability to process auditory information and work on your memory.
Hear the calls, chirps, and growls of rainforest animals and test your ability to recognize and identify them. By listening to various animal sounds and matching them to images, you’ll strengthen your auditory discrimination skills. This mini packet features a hybrid approach, combining video components that play the animal sounds with printed worksheets where you can match the sounds to pictures of rainforest animals. This multi-sensory experience engages both hearing and visual recognition, making learning more interactive and memorable.
The skill of auditory processing and matching sounds to an image helps us recognize the voices of people we know, and keep up in conversations with multiple people.
This mini packet is perfect for individuals of all ages who want to work on their auditory skills.
Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.
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Embrace the beauty of plants while working on your cognitive skills with this leaf-inspired cognitive exercise packet! Perfect for individuals who want to exercise their visual attention and memory, this packet offers a variety of engaging activities designed to challenge and enhance your ability to focus and retain information. Whether you’re recovering from a brain injury or stroke, or living with mild cognitive impairment, these exercises are a fun and effective way to support cognitive health.
Exercises:
Entangled Figures – In this exercise, users are challenged to discern which figures are entangled in a larger image. This hones your ability to focus on specific details while ignoring visual noise.
I Remember You! – Based on our popular names and faces exercise, this packet puts an autumn spin on the task by asking you to memorize different types of leaves. This exercise targets both visual and verbal memory.
Shapes and Colors – Practice memorizing leafy images and selecting them from multiple options, which improves your ability to recall and recognize visual information.
Heraldry – Test your memory and concentration by remembering an image and recreating it after completing a distracting task. This exercise targets working memory and sustained attention.
This packet is great for anyone working on attention and memory skills, including after an injury or stroke, or individuals with mild cognitive impairment.
What is inside: 48 visual attention worksheets and bridging questions.
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Embark on an interstellar adventure while honing your visual-spatial skills with our space explorer-themed cognitive exercise packet! Combining a variety of engaging exercises, including a hybrid video component, this packet offers a comprehensive approach to exercising spatial memory, orientation, and navigation abilities. Whether your client is recovering from a brain injury or stroke, looking to boost spatial awareness, or simply seeking a fun and challenging mental workout, this packet provides helpful science-based exercises to help them reach their goals. Explore the cosmos and work on visual-spatial skills with the following exercises:
Objects, Where Are You?: Memorize the positions of various objects on a grid to work on spatial memory, attention to detail, and cognitive mapping.
Sleight of Hands: Determine whether a photograph depicts a left or right hand, enhancing spatial orientation and body awareness.
Under Pressure: Figure out if one object is higher or lower than another using a fun hybrid video component, exercising spatial reasoning.
Points of View: Determine your position on a map based on visual cues, working on navigation skills and spatial orientation.
What is inside: 34 visual-spatial worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
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Exercise your social cognition skills with this bridging packet! Centered around the theme of remembering individuals at a conference, this packet offers a comprehensive approach to improving your ability to navigate social interactions and professional networking. Drawing from a variety of effective exercises, this social cognition workbook provides a fun and practical way to work on social and cognitive abilities.
Exercises:
I Remember You: Focus on remembering names, faces, and personal details about individuals, which is crucial for building social connections and professional relationships.
Pay Attention: Exercise your ability to concentrate on specific tasks and retain information over short periods.
Seize the Keywords: Encourages you to memorize key elements of a text and recall them accurately, a skill useful in remembering important details from conversations.
This Story is Full of Blanks: Challenges you to fill in missing words in a text using context clues, working on your ability to understand and remember conversations.
This packet is great for professionals who are looking to re-enter work after an injury, or students looking to enhance their social cognition skills.
Challenge your social cognition and memory with our conference-themed cognitive exercise bridging packet. Combining the best of multiple exercises, this packet provides a practical and engaging way to work on your ability to remember names and faces, stay focused, and communicate effectively.
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Included inside: 25 activity pages
Disclaimer: Results vary based on individual effort and cognitive health.
This hybrid cognitive exercise mini packet is designed to improve auditory attention and processing skills. Incorporating a dynamic video component, this mini is based on our popular digital exercise “Sound Check.” Listen to notes made by musical instruments and compare them to practice distinguishing between the length, pitch, and volume of different sounds. These auditory attention worksheets are perfect for individuals looking to boost their auditory skills, offering an engaging and effective way to practice paying attention to sounds and distinguishing between them.
Differentiating between sounds is a crucial skill for effective listening and comprehension. This exercise is designed to enhance your ability to identify, differentiate, and interpret sounds, important for tasks such as learning new languages, active listening skills, music appreciation, and everyday communication.
Perfect for adults and kids looking to exercise their auditory and attention skills. Embrace the challenge and work on sharpening your auditory attention skills!
Included inside: 10 pages of auditory attention worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
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Dive into a world of crafts and fantasy stories, while exercising your verbal working memory and concentration skills with our thoughtfully designed cognitive exercise packet. This engaging and nostalgic packet draws inspiration from childhood joys, making the exercises not only beneficial but also reminiscent of fun times. Enjoy these verbal working memory worksheets including the following exercises:
Pay Attention: Recall numbers in a specific order to sharpen your attention and memory skills. This exercise mimics the fun of counting games and number puzzles from childhood.
Elephant Memory: Recall words presented in new contexts, enhancing your verbal memory. This exercise brings back the joy of word games and storytelling.
Private Eye: Search for a different item among a grid of matching items, practicing your scanning and concentration abilities. This activity is reminiscent of hidden object games and puzzles.
Seize the Keywords: Memorize key elements of a text and put them in order, practicing comprehension and verbal memory. This exercise takes you back to the fun of reading and summarizing stories.
This packet is perfect for seniors looking to stimulate their cognitive skills while enjoying nostalgic exercises, and anyone recovering from a brain injury or stroke who is ready for some challenging cognitive practice.
Each exercise is designed to evoke happy memories while providing a rigorous mental challenge. Whether you’re an adult looking to stay mentally fit, a senior aiming to maintain cognitive health, or a student seeking to improve academic skills, this packet offers valuable and enjoyable activities. Enhance your verbal working memory, improve your concentration, and enjoy the nostalgic journey with this delightful and effective cognitive exercise packet!
What is inside: 43 verbal working memory worksheets and bridging questions.
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Plan a party with this fun and mentally stimulating bridging workbook! Designed to combine the excitement of organizing a celebration with cognitive skill enhancement, this packet offers a unique and engaging way to exercise your cognition.
Based on three of our most popular digital exercises, this workbook is perfect for adults and seniors looking to sharpen their memory, strategy, and planning skills while mastering the art of event planning.
Displaced Characters: Discern the difference between figures.
Seize the Keywords: Memorize specific words in a text, then sort them.
This Story is Full of Blanks!: Work on verbal memory and strategy skills by filling in the blanks in a text.
Ideal for adults looking to exercise memory and executive function skills, and seniors looking to maintain their cognitive health and stay engaged.
Plan a memorable party with our attention, strategy, planning, and verbal memory workbook that not only exercises your brain but also helps you practice the skills needed to plan an event. Dive into the exercises and work on your attention, verbal memory, strategic planning, and overall event coordination skills. Whether you’re planning a birthday bash or a casual get-together, this packet helps you practice the skills needed to create an unforgettable experience.
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Included inside: 22 activity pages
Disclaimer: Results vary based on individual effort and cognitive health.
Hit the road and cruise to the beach with these fun and challenging divided attention worksheets! Inspired by our digital exercise Two-Timing, this hybrid mini is designed to exercise cognitive skills in an engaging way.
This packet focuses on improving key cognitive abilities:
Attention: You’ll need to focus as you navigate through a visual task and an auditory task, splitting your attention between these different elements. This helps in enhancing your ability to manage and respond to different stimuli.
Processing Speed: Exercise your mental agility by quickly processing information and making swift decisions. This aspect of the exercise is designed to help you react faster and more accurately in both cognitive tasks and real-life situations.
Categorization: Work on your ability to organize and classify information. This skill is essential for effective problem-solving and understanding complex patterns in your environment.
Perfect for adults and seniors working on attention, processing speed, and multitasking abilities. These skills are important in daily life, particularly in the workplace.
Included inside: 9 pages of divided attention worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
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Embrace the sunny season while working on your cognitive abilities with our summer-themed cognitive exercise packet! This collection of fun executive function activities is designed to help you practice verbal and visual memory, as well as planning skills. Inspired by some of our engaging digital exercises, this packet of planning worksheets provides a comprehensive mental workout with a summer vacation twist.
The Right Count: Sharpen your arithmetic skills by ordering numbers in ascending or descending order. This activity challenges your planning abilities and helps you develop a keen sense for numerical sequences.
Embroidery: Hone your verbal memory and attention to detail by finding a hidden word within a grid of letters. This task is perfect for working on verbal recall and visual scanning skills.
Hurray for Change: Take on the dual challenge of ordering numbers and letters simultaneously. This exercise boosts your ability to multitask and enhances both numerical and alphabetical ordering skills.
An American in Paris: Work on visual and verbal memory by memorizing trips using images and location names. This activity is great for working on memory and strategy skills.
Ideal for individuals recovering from a brain injury and looking to improve daily cognitive functions, seniors who want to engage in stimulating activities, or students looking to exercise critical thinking, memory retention, and organizational skills.
What is inside: 41 unique planning worksheets and bridging questions.
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Immerse yourself in a celestial world of wordplay with our starry cognitive exercise packet full of executive function activities! Inspired by our popular digital exercise, Writing in the Stars, this engaging packet is designed to help you fit words together in a way that challenges and refines your executive function skills.
By working through these carefully crafted executive function worksheets, your clients will practice critical skills such as planning and inhibition. Planning requires you to think ahead and organize your thoughts strategically, while inhibition helps you control impulses and focus on the task at hand. Both skills are essential for effective problem-solving and decision-making.
Explore the galaxy of words and enhance your cognitive abilities with this starry exercise packet. Dive into the challenge and watch as your planning and inhibition skills soar to new heights, all while enjoying the satisfaction of fitting words together in stellar fashion.
Included inside: 7 pages of executive function activities, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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Challenge your mind with this visual-spatial mini cognitive exercise packet, designed to sharpen your ability to analyze and mentally rotate objects. Based on our popular digital exercise, Turn Around and Around, this packet provides targeted practice in visualizing and manipulating shapes, letters, and symbols in your mind. Each task invites users to mentally rotate items to determine how they differ, enhancing critical cognitive skills in a fun and structured way.
The ability to mentally rotate objects and process spatial information plays a key role in real-world scenarios such as driving, reading maps, and interpreting diagrams. This packet provides a way to work on these skills.
For those regaining cognitive abilities after a brain injury or stroke, or individuals with learning disabilities that affect visual-spatial abilities, this packet offers structured practice in visual-spatial reasoning.
Included inside: 6 pages of visual-spatial worksheets, and bridging questions.
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Step into a world of adventure with this hybrid mini cognitive exercise packet designed to strengthen verbal working memory through engaging, fantasy-themed stories! Inspired by our popular digital exercise, Seize the Keywords, this packet challenges you to recall and sequence verbs from snippets of text, encouraging you to practice holding words in mind for a short period. The combination of verbal memory tasks and vivid, story-driven visuals creates an immersive experience that makes cognitive training both fun and rewarding.
This packet requires that the individual look between the screen and the paper, adding an extra layer of difficulty to a working memory exercise. Each exercise presents a short passage, asking you to remember specific verbs in sequence to exercise verbal working memory and focus.
The fun fantasy theme makes this mini packet a great option for adolescents and adults!
Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets, bridging questions, and 3 videos.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other language worksheets today! →
Get into the Halloween spirit while sharpening your verbal memory skills with this engaging mini cognitive exercise packet. Based on our popular digital exercise, “Embroidery,” this packet challenges you to find hidden words in grids of letters—each word related to a Halloween theme! Finding each word in the grid helps solidify your knowledge of word structure and enhances spelling skills, which are helpful for both written and spoken communication. Perfect for building verbal recall and working on spelling, this mini packet is a fun and effective way to work on cognitive skills while immersing yourself in festive and spooky imagery.
Dive into grids filled with letters as you search for hidden Halloween-themed words. This word search-style exercise stimulates your long-term verbal memory, requiring you to recall and recognize familiar words within a sea of letters.
The skill of verbal recall allows us to pull words from our long-term memory, which aids us during conversations, writing, and many other daily tasks.
The fun Halloween theme makes this mini worksheet packet a great option for kids and adults! This mini packet is perfect for individuals of all ages who want to work on their verbal memory skills.
Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other language worksheets today! →