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Earth Day meets cognitive training in this mini. In this mini, participants will test their semantic knowledge and visual attention by sorting various waste items into color-coordinated bins. As the number of bins increases, so does the specificity of the items that can and should be placed in each one. This attention-based worksheet packet reinforces the importance of recycling and challenges cognitive skills related to categorization and organization.

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Inspired by our popular digital exercise, Secret Files, this engaging recycling activity packet combines fun and education of proper recycling ways for individuals of all ages. Sorting items based on their category is an essential skill we use every day. Working on these activities might be a great addition to your therapy worksheet collection.

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Perfect for celebrating Earth Day or as a standalone educational activity, this recycling packet is suitable for a wide range of ages and abilities. Preschoolers and seniors alike will enjoy these recycling worksheets’ vibrant colors and interactive nature.

You’ll find 5 engaging recycling activities and thought-provoking bridging questions in this packet. Dive into the world of recycling education and environmental awareness with this captivating worksheet packet today! Check out our other sorting activities today! → 

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Step into the holiday spirit with our festive and engaging activity: Holiday Scene Search! Channel your inner Sherlock Holmes as you embark on a search for hidden presents and decorative items in each holiday scene. This fun and interactive worksheet sharpens executive functioning skills while spreading holiday cheer. Based on our digital exercise, Private Eye, your client will have a blast discovering this scene and searching for the items in question.

What is trained? 

As you navigate through the holiday scenes, you’ll exercise essential executive functioning skills, including attention to detail, visual perception, and cognitive flexibility. By honing these skills, your client will not only become a master at finding hidden treasures. You may also engage your client’s ability to stay organized and attentive in various tasks and activities.

Whether you’re preparing holiday cards, organizing decorations, or simply enjoying the festive season, Holiday Scene Search offers a delightful way to challenge your client’s cognitive abilities while indulging in the holiday spirit. We believe that this mini will be great for all ages! Children aged 3+ will love the scene exploration.

What’s inside: 6 pages and bridging questions

Are you looking for other Christmas-themed activities? Check out our other Christmas worksheets → 

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Dive into the depths of memory with our engaging fish-themed mini! Designed to challenge patients and therapists alike, this mini offers a fun and immersive way to test your ability to remember different types of fish. With vivid imagery and captivating exercises, you’ll feel like you’re exploring an aquarium as you work through each worksheet.

Adaptable and versatile, this mini can be used independently or combined with the digital version “Gulf Stream“. Whether you want to enhance your client’s working memory or sharpen their attention skills, these activities provide valuable cognitive stimulation in an enjoyable format.

Inside, you’ll find 8 dynamic worksheets that will transport you to an underwater world filled with colorful fish. Each activity offers a unique opportunity to flex your memory muscles, from identifying different species to recalling their characteristics. This mini will be great for kids as young as 3 and as old as 103! Download it today to have fun looking at fishes during your therapy groups or one-on-one sessions!

Challenge yourself or your clients with these engaging exercises, and watch your client’s memory skills flourish! Check out our other Gulf Stream activities today! → 

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Comparing and contrasting information can be a difficult task for anyone. In this exercise, you must compare and contrast images in two sets to see which images have been substituted. Clients will be able to differentiate between items and analyze information better. This exercise requires extensive attention to detail, which will help you complete tasks such as correctly taking medication, responding thoroughly to work emails, and becoming more conscious of your environment.

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Comparing and contrasting information can be a difficult task for anyone. Many people struggle with analyzing and processing the difference in items. In this exercise, you must compare and contrast images in two sets to see which images have been substituted. This exercise requires extensive attention to detail, which will help you complete tasks such as correctly taking medication, responding thoroughly to work emails, and becoming more conscious of your environment.

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We designed this packet to stimulate visual skills related to verbal attention. The goal of this packet is to engage all aspects related to verbal and visual attention skills. We believe Verbal and visual attention skills are essential to all cognitive functions, especially those around social cognition and language. This packet will start by challenging your patients with two different adaptations of our digital exercise Private Eye. In this first exercise, your patient will have to find perfect circles. The following exercise will challenge their ability to recognize the correlation between words and their meaning to determine which words do not belong. The following exercise is a modification of Elephant Memory. This modification requires your patient to study a scene and answer questions.

The last two exercises are focused directly on verbal attention. This last section starts with an adaption of Restaurant. This adaption aims to engage your patient’s ability to compare and contrast two recipes. Looking side by side, your patient will identify what was different between the recipes. Finally, your patient will have to read a passage and find the typos and errors in this modified version of This Story is Full of Blanks.

This packet is an excellent resource for teachers who want to challenge their students’ ability to process visual-verbal information. Therapists have also used this packet to help stimulate patients with brain injuries that affect their verbal attention skills or aphasia.

Included Inside: 13 pages and bridging questions.

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Attention is greatly impacted post injury. For many people, staying focused is an ongoing issue they have to work with. In this packet, you must become a detective and find the odd character out of a set of characters. This challenges clients to work on analytical as well as processing abilities. By working on these skills, this exercise will help you learn strategies that will help you pick out anomalies as well as relevant information from a set.

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Memory is one of the most impacted cognitive functions post-injury. In this mini-packet, you will have to recall various shapes and their colors that you have previously memorized. By practicing this, clients will be able to improve their cognition and memory skills for both social and academic settings. This exercise will help you learn strategies to better retain visual information that you come across, such as when you view signs as you walk through a city or town.

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Stroke survivors often experience challenges with motor coordination and processing speed, impacting their ability to perform daily tasks. Our mini-packet offers a unique opportunity for clients to practice and refine their motor skills while enhancing their processing abilities. In this engaging activity, participants must utilize both hands and their eyes to catch ladybugs scattered across various scenes.

With a focus on a pointing activity, clients will navigate through intricate city scenes, honing their coordination and processing speed as they locate and capture the elusive ladybugs.  This interactive exercise encourages bilateral movement and visual attention, providing valuable rehabilitation for stroke survivors. Based on our digital exercise, “Catch the Lady Bug,” your client will enjoy this adaptation. If they find this extremely enjoyable, have them try the digital exercise on an iPad today!

Ideal for individuals of all ages, particularly young children, this mini-packet offers a fun and immersive way to improve motor coordination and processing skills. Participants can enjoy the challenge of the pointing activity while exploring vibrant city landscapes filled with hidden ladybugs.

Inside this mini-packet, you’ll find a single pointing activity featuring intricate city scenes teeming with ladybugs. Prepare for a delightful adventure filled with motor skill challenges and cognitive stimulation! If you like this activity, check out our other processing speed activities today! → 

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We designed our packet to foster cognitive development with a fun Easter theme! We aimed to target visual attention, stimulate language skills, and enhance visual memory in a fun-themed way! This comprehensive worksheet package consists of five engaging and unique exercises designed to challenge and captivate individuals of all ages.

Exercise 1: Semantic Language Puzzles The journey begins with exercises that test patience and semantic understanding. Participants will see an image and have to decipher the correct spelling of the associated word beneath it. These exercises stimulate cognitive functions while providing a fun linguistic challenge.

Exercise 2: Image-Based Questions In this section, participants answer questions based on images they have previously studied. This Easter-themed activity reinforces memory retention and encourages critical thinking.

Exercise 3: Lexical Semantics and Attention One key image becomes the focal point in this exercise. Participants must apply their lexical semantics and attention skills to select the correct answer. This may help promote language development and visual attention.

Exercises 4 and 5:  The Easter spirit is infused into the last two exercises. Participants must carefully study a group of eggs and identify the new addition, strengthening their visual memory. Finally, In the final exercise, participants are tasked with recalling the locations of Easter eggs on a grid. Based on our digital exercise chunking.

Included: 27 worksheets and Bridging Questions.

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Enhance your cognitive rehabilitation efforts with our specialized packet focused on visual attention. Designed to address attention deficits and enhance focus, this comprehensive worksheet collection is a valuable addition to any therapeutic toolkit. If your patient finds it hard to pay attention, this packet should be in your collection today.

This packet has a variety of exercises. Our Mosaic exercise will challenge your patient’s ability to find an object among a bunch of rotated things visually. Visual remember elements of an image with our Observation exercise. Next, your patient must distinguish icons on one side of a graph or image and the other in our Same or Different and Displaced Characters exercises. Lastly, your patient must recall the steps taken in our Find Your Way exercise. This visual attention packet is an excellent workout for your client’s brain after a brain injury or if they have difficulty paying attention. Patients must have a sharp eye and strong attention to solve these attention-grabbing problems in this packet!

Ideal for Brain Injury Recovery

This visual attention packet supports your patient’s recovery journey after a brain injury. By providing targeted exercises that require a sharp eye and strong attention to detail, you can help rebuild cognitive function and improve attentional control.

Included inside: 14 worksheets and bridging questions.

If you like this packet, explore our library of visual attention worksheets! Try our digital program if you would like to try our other attention-based exercises that may improve your patient’s ability to pay attention.

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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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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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.

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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.

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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.

If you like this workbook, make sure to check out our other bridging workbooks today! → 

Included inside: 25 activity pages

Disclaimer: Results vary based on individual effort and cognitive health.

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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.

If you like this workbook, make sure to check out our other bridging workbooks today! → 

Included inside: 22 activity pages

Disclaimer: Results vary based on individual effort and cognitive health.

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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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Work on your verbal memory with this engaging hybrid mini packet, designed to practice memorizing important information like shopping lists. Based on our popular digital exercise, “Elephant Memory,” this hybrid video mini packet provides a fun and practical way to enhance your ability to recall words and details that are essential for everyday life. This mini packet focuses on helping you practice memorizing items on a shopping list, a common but crucial task in daily life. You’ll be shown words from a shopping list, which you then need to identify among a series of words. The packet includes a hybrid video component that enhances the learning experience by asking the individual to work between a screen and a worksheet. This approach engages their attention and memory skills, providing an extra challenge.

The skill of memorizing important words comes up in shopping, taking medication, driving, studying, and much more. Help your clients work on this important daily life skill!

This mini packet is perfect for teens, adults, and seniors looking to exercise their memory.

Included inside: 7 pages of verbal memory worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.

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Take a journey through the world of art history while sharpening your memory skills with this hybrid art-themed mini packet. Based on our digital exercise, “An American in Paris,” this packet offers a unique way to work on your spatial, visual, and verbal memory while getting lost in a world of artists and adventure. Explore art in cities around the world like Paris, Philadelphia, Marrakesh, Seoul, and more while working on your memory and spatial skills! This packet challenges spatial, visual, and verbal memory by asking you to remember the locations of art museums, their names, and an image associated with each one. Whether you’re an art lover, a traveler, or simply looking to sharpen multiple types of memory, this packet provides a great way to exercise multiple skills.

The exercises are designed to mimic complex real-world skills like memorizing a trip itinerary, navigating a new city, or recalling information about a person you just met, making the skills you practice directly applicable to daily life.

This mini packet is perfect for adults and seniors, as well as adolescents looking for a tough challenge!

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

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Unlock the power of visual-spatial reasoning with our specially designed cognitive exercise mini packet. Inspired by our digital exercise Points of View, this packet offers a dynamic and engaging way to work on the ability to navigate spaces and orient yourself using maps. Perfect for individuals looking to boost their spatial awareness and cognitive abilities, this packet provides practical exercises that translate into real-world skills.

This exercise is designed to help individuals work on the skills of navigation, problem-solving skills, and spatial reasoning. These skills of are needed for finding your way in an unfamiliar place, organizing objects, and getting oriented on a map. Whether you’re looking to work on your navigation abilities, exercise your spatial reasoning, or simply enjoy a challenging mental workout, this packet offers the tools you need to succeed.

This mini packet is perfect for adults and kids looking to exercise their visual-spatial skills.

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

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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.

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

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