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Does your patient love to be in the garden or outside? Does the sight of butterflies and bugs bring them joy? If so, download this fun and engaging visual attention worksheet packet. This completely non-verbal packet will help build anyone’s attention and executive function skills.
This packet starts by challenging your patient’s ability to spot the difference in a bug-themed Private Eye activity. The next activity will be the dance of the bugs. Each bug will dance a specific pattern in a sea of bugs. Your patient will have to figure out which bug is dancing which dance. This activity uses attention, executive function, and deductive reasoning skills. The following exercise group involves attention and deciphering skills when your patient has to figure out which piece is missing from which bug. Your patient must study the potential pieces and determine which will solve the broken butterfly. Finally, the last exercise section will use their fine motor and attention skills. Catch the ladybug becomes printable and colorful in these last activities. Your patient will have to ignore the additional bugs to find all of the ladybugs in the images.
In this packet, you will be challenged to complete attention-based skills. You will practice staying on task, finding anomalies in a set of information, recognizing patterns, and comparing and contrasting objects. This packet is an excellent workout for your frontal lobe. This packet will be great for preschoolers to seniors. Anyone who loves summer or bugs will enjoy this packet as well.
Included inside: 18 worksheets and bridging questions.
If your patients love flowers and all things around spring, they will love this packet. This attention packet is an excellent workout for your patient’s brain. Visual attention is required to do many different cognitive tasks. When strengthened, it may help all areas of cognition.
To help you provide therapy for your client working on their visual attention skills, we have provided 4 exercises that target different cognitive skills involved in this visual attention packet. A keen eye for detail is key to succeeding at these attention-grabbing problems. The first exercise group is a floral adaption of Displaced Images. You’ll have to pay close attention to be able to spot the odd flower out. Next, You’ll have to jump through words in alphabetical order as quickly as possible. Be careful; the distracting floral background might slip you up! Next, we will combine your visual attention skills and spatial memory in a flowery Chunking exercise. This exercise requires you to pay close attention to where flowers are on a grid and carefully recreate them afterward. We’ve left some empty grids so you can make your own. Lastly, we will see how well your visual skills and memory are in Shapes and Colors. This exercise works your visual attention and memory skills as you try and decide which flower is the correct one.
This packet is great for non-speakers, kids, preschoolers, individuals who need attention skills, and anyone looking to engage their brain with a flower-themed packet!
Included inside: 19 worksheets and bridging questions.
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.
About Secret Files
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.
Earth Day Uses
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! →
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 →
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! →
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! →
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other executive function worksheets today! →
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! →
Decipher mystery text in this Winter-themed mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on executive function skills like problem solving and planning, as well as language skills such as verbal memory, spelling, and using context clues. Inspired by our digital exercise, Decipher, you’ll be asked to find the missing letters in a short quote, with less letters given to you in each level. This exercise targets verbal memory and language, requiring you to recall vocabulary words from long term memory, and use context clues to complete the quote. These skills contribute to daily tasks like socializing, reading, and writing.
This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults working on verbal and reading skills.
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! →
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.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other attention worksheets today! →
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.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other language worksheets today! →
Exercise memory and social cognition with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, I Remember You!, you’ll memorize people’s faces and names, and then match names to faces on the following page. This particular mini packet is designed to be more simple than usual, for individuals with more severe memory deficits. These skills contribute to daily tasks and interactions that involve remembering who people are.
This mini packet is great for seniors, or anyone working on memory skills and social cognition.
Included inside: 12 pages of memory and social cognition worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Exercise verbal memory and lexical skills with this mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Split Words, you’ll see fragments of words that need to be combined. Using emotion-themed words, this exercise targets both spelling and verbal recall, requiring you to visually scan the page, recognize fragments of words, and combine them together. These skills contribute to daily tasks that involve language and visual scanning, such as finding the right medication in a cabinet, understand a sign you can only partially see while navigating.
This mini packet is great for adults working on verbal memory skills.
Included inside: 5 pages of verbal memory worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other language worksheets today! →
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.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
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.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
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.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →