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In this hybrid packet, three types of stimuli (a letter, a red leaf, and a white pumpkin) will appear one after the other at different spots anywhere on the screen. This exercise will engage your patient’s processing speed and spatial memory. It will also help to determine how quickly your patient can recall whether the white pumpkin appears above or below the red leaf. This packet will be great for group warm-ups, working on visual attention and spatial memory. You can make this packet as easy or as hard as you would like either. Try slowing down the video, replaying it several times, or speeding it up to increase or decrease the challenge. The potential use of this packet is endless.
This packet is great for all ages! No language is involved!
Included: 3 worksheets, each activity will last at least 5 minutes a page, bridging questions, and an answer key.
If your patient’s favorite season is fall or autumn, this packet is for them. Our cognitive flexibility exercise, Hurray for Change, takes on a fall seasonally apparel. Work on your patient’s cognitive flexibility or ability to switch between different stimuli to create a path connecting both sets of stimuli as fast and as smoothly as possible. The lower levels of this packet will require your patient to connect items numerically or alphabetically. This will be great for individuals who are learning to read or want to improve their letter and word categorization. The upper levels will change your patient’s ability to switch between numerical and language stimuli. Executive function, language comprehension, and working memory are all challenged in this mini packet.
This packet is great for all ages! Everyone can and should work on their cognitive flexibility, regardless of age. Try using this with your patients with aphasia and ask them to read out each word.
Included: 9 worksheets, bridging questions, and an answer key.
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.
Visual attention is taking in crucial visual information while filtering out the rest. It’s also the ability to sustain or focus on visual information for periods of time and be able to shift focus when necessary. This packet aims to work on both micro and macro visual attention. The exercises will challenge your patient’s ability to see images in a mess of overlaying designs. Work on short-term visual memory as they discover the differences between series of images. Enhance their ability to see the minute differences between images. Finally, track a pattern of icons to find which icon constructs which pattern.
This packet is great for kids, students, and individuals with aphasia. You can also use this packet with non-verbal individuals! The abilities to use this packet are endless.
Included inside: 34 worksheets, and bridging questions.
This mini seamlessly integrates brain training activities for auditory attention with the joys of nature. To clarify, participants are invited to listen to birds’ melodic tweets and chirps and remember details about their sounds. The connection between memory and attention is essential to auditory processing, and our mini aims to engage these cognitive functions.
This brain training activity is based on our digital exercise, Bird Song. Bird Song has an even more extensive library of bird noises to engage your clients in fun and enjoyable brain-training activities.
Recommended for All Audiences:
Whether you’re seeking brain training activities for personal, group sessions, or individuals, this mini is tailored to meet diverse needs. It is ideal for those looking to engage in auditory processing and memory skills. Accessible and enjoyable, it provides a holistic approach to cognitive development. Designed with inclusivity, we believe participants as young as 4 can delight in the bird noises within this packet, fostering cognitive growth from an early age.
Included inside: 6 worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
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This bundle contains packets and mini-packets dedicated to attention skills that may be useful for individuals who have recently suffered a brain injury. This bundle aims to help warm up attention and processing skills that may have been affected by a stroke or a brain injury. It is also great to use these packets with groups or students.
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What’s included inside: Instant PDF downloads of 3 packets and 5 minis or 57 unique worksheets.
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.
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.
Does your patient struggle to memorize and focus on comprehending visual information? This packet will test and engage your patient’s visual memory and attention skills. In this packet, your patient will start with a simple chunking exercise, where they must remember the shapes on the grid. Once completed, your patient’s attention skills will be next for stimulation. They will have to pay attention to details as they figure out which item doesn’t belong and find the one icon in a mess of different icons in the private eye exercise. After that, they will have to carefully count the number of ladybugs found on the pages in a print version of catch the ladybug. This version of Catch the Ladybug will challenge their memory and attention. Lastly, the packet will challenge them to recall designs on a shield from memory in Heraldry.
Included inside: 31 worksheets and bridging questions.
Ready for to challenge your attention and memory skills? Inspector Gadget may have an eye for detail, but do you? With this mini packet based on the visual attention exercise Displaced Characters, you can practice your attention to detail and ability to detect anomalies. This visual memory worksheets packet also utilizes executive functioning skills such as concentration and attention, and is great for anyone looking for a challenge!
Welcome to our first hybrid packet ever! In this packet, you will see a series of numbers, letters, or combinations of both and have to recall them in the order they are presented. Based on the exercise Pay Attention, this packet will challenge executive functioning skills such as working memory and metacognition. Test your memory skills and get a sneak peek at going digital with this hybrid digital cognitive exercise packet!
Try your hand at making your own holiday ornaments, and recalling what they look like. This holiday themed packet will challenge your visual memory as you create and recall different ornaments. This packet uses executive functioning skills such as working memory, metacognition and organization.
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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.
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.
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.
Is your client working on paying attention for long periods of time? We have the worksheet packet for you! Based on our digital exercises, this packet offers an engaging way to work on attention skills, and other cognitive tasks like visual scanning and verbal memory. This packet will keep clients of all ages engaged with a fun “crawling critters” bug theme. The sustained attention skills that this packet focuses on are needed for a huge variety of daily tasks, such as studying, participating in a conversation, and driving.
Exercises:
Catch the Ladybug: Catch ladybugs as fast as you can, while navigating distractions.
This Story is Full of Blanks: Use context clues to fill in the blank words in a text.
Pay Attention: Recall a series of letters or numbers in original or reverse order.
Private Eye: Locate an image in a grid of similar images.
This packet is great for kids, and all ages looking to exercise cognitive skills.
What’s inside: 27 sustained attention skills worksheets and bridging questions.
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Working on visual-spatial skills and mental imagery with your clients? Give these spatial skills worksheets a whirl! They’ll provide engaging cognitive tasks that ask you to mentally rotate objects and recall images or words in specific locations. Based on our digital exercises, this packet will encourage a well-rounded visual-spatial skillset in a fun way! These skills are used for numerous daily tasks such as driving, going for a walk, cleaning and organizing. Help your clients exercise their visual-spatial skills and bring them into daily life!
This packet offers an engaging way to practice visual-spatial skills, and can be completed independently or with a provider based on the needs of the individual. It’s ideal for people looking to practice spatial skills needed for navigating the world around them. Whether you’re a clinician or caregiver, this packet will offer ways to both have fun and exercise these skills!
Exercises:
N-Back: Recall colors in a specific frequency and order.
Words, Where Are You?: Use visual, verbal, and spatial memory to recall the placement of words on a grid.
Turn Around and Around: Mentally rotate objects to find which one is different from the others.
Find Your Way!: Recall a path through various objects in the correct order.
This packet is great for adolescents, adults, and seniors looking to exercise cognitive skills.
What is inside: 44 spatial skills worksheets and bridging questions.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of visual-spatial worksheets today! →
Working on social skills with your clients? These social cognition worksheets provide tasks that draw from daily interactions. Based on our digital exercises, this packet offers a multifaceted approach that supports the skills of attention and visual & verbal memory needed in social situations.
This packet offers a fun approach to working out your social cognition skills. It’s ideal for individuals looking to practice social skills and other cognitive skills that support social skills, such as memory and attention. Whether you’re a clinician or caregiver, this packet will offer ways to both entertain and exercise skills!
Exercises:
This Story is Full of Blanks: Complete quotes from various literary works by selecting words from a word bank.
Displaced Images: Compare two image series, identifying differing images between them.
Secret Files: Classify words into categories.
I Remember You!: Learn and recall names and faces, facing increasing complexity.
This packet is great for adolescents, as well as adults looking to exercise cognitive skills.
What is inside: 26 social cognition worksheets and bridging questions.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of social cognition worksheets today! →
Step into a sensory adventure and work on your cognitive abilities! This engaging packet is designed to challenge your executive function and deductive reasoning skills through a variety of sensory-based tasks. Drawing inspiration from our digital exercises, this packet offers a multi-sensory approach that keeps users engaged while supporting essential cognitive skills.
With puzzles that involve sight, sound, and spatial reasoning, this packet provides a well-rounded brain workout. It’s perfect for those looking to boost problem-solving, mental flexibility, and decision-making skills. Whether you’re a clinician, caregiver, or individual looking to work on cognition, this sensory-themed cognitive packet has something for everyone.
Exercises:
Sleight of Hands: Identify if an image shows a left or right hand, requiring mental rotation and spatial reasoning.
Gulf Stream: Search for one memorized image hidden among visually distracting images, strengthening visual scanning, sustained attention, and memory.
Dance with Fireflies: Identify the path of a moving shape, honing tracking skills, attention, and pattern recognition.
Sound Check: Listen to musical notes and identify differences between them, promoting auditory discrimination, sustained attention, and auditory processing.
This packet is great for adolescents, as well as adults looking to exercise cognitive skills.
What is inside: 24 deductive reasoning worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of executive function worksheets today! →
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.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of language worksheets today! →
Help your client exercise executive functions like planning and inhibitory control with this colorful exercise. Jump between paints on a palette organizing them in alphabetical and numerical order. You’ll need to work as quickly as possible while alternating between different types of stimuli as the exercises get more difficult.
Inspired by our digital exercise, Hurray For Change, this mini packet requires you to sort information while utilizing inhibition to avoid making mistakes. These skills are needed for tasks like writing, following instructions, and driving.
Included inside: 9 pages of executive function worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other executive function worksheets today! →
Exercise working memory and divided attention skills with this fun mini packet! In these visual working memory worksheets, you’ll memorize a book cover, do a distracting exercise, and then recreate the book cover using the options provided.
Inspired by our digital exercise, Heraldry, this mini packet requires you to memorize visual information while distracting you with other information to really test your memory. The distraction provides an extra layer of difficulty and makes you work your memory even more!
Memorizing visual information is a skill that is necessary for daily life. We utilize this skill when following directions on a GPS, identifying medications, and following signs in a building or subway system. This exercise is designed to work on visual working memory and dividing attention between two tasks. Challenge your brain’s capacity to handle tasks that demand working memory and divided attention!
Included inside: 12 pages of visual working memory worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
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.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other attention worksheets today! →
Step into the bustling atmosphere of an Italian restaurant and challenge your memory skills with these engaging verbal working memory worksheets. With a unique hybrid format, this packet blends fun scenarios with memory-building tasks to help clients strengthen their verbal and working memory skills.
Inspired by our popular digital exercise, “Restaurant,” this mini packet asks you to memorize people’s names and their food order at an Italian eatery. As the exercises progress, the challenges increase, requiring you to juggle more information and put your working memory to the test.
Imagine yourself as a maître d’ or waiter tasked with remembering names and seating arrangements in a busy Italian restaurant. This exercise is designed to work on verbal memory, sequential recall, and the ability to manage increasingly complex information. Challenge your brain’s capacity to handle real-world situations that demand working memory and attention!
Included inside: 6 pages of verbal working memory worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Take a walk through the natural world while strengthening your language skills with this engaging mini cognitive exercise packet. Rooted in our popular digital exercise, Root It Out, this packet challenges you to identify and recall nature-related words using clues like first letters, scrambled spellings, and word fragments. It’s a fun, brain-boosting journey that we hope will leave you feeling more confident in your verbal recall abilities.
Verbal recall is a critical cognitive ability that affects everyday tasks like remembering names, recalling specific terms, or describing objects. This mini packet offers targeted practice designed to strengthen these language-based skills. These exercises support word-finding, vocabulary development, and the ability to make connections between partial word fragments and complete words—skills that support communication and memory in daily life.
This mini packet can help support users in regaining confidence in their language abilities after an injury or stroke, and practice key communication skills like naming objects, describing items, and recalling vocabulary. It may also be helpful to individuals who have learning disabilities, as they work on spelling, recall, and word recognition. These exercises may support language processing and confidence in academic settings.
Included inside: 6 pages of language worksheets, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other language worksheets today! →