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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.
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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! →