Executive Functions Worksheets
The Premier Clinician Resource for Stimulating Executive Functioning Skills
Are you ready to enhance your toolkit of executive functioning activities and help your client improve their organization, planning, and decision-making processes? Then look no further! We offer a variety of PDF downloads designed to empower clinicians to have the resources to make cognitive remediation of executive functioning fun!
Executive Functions Worksheets
Our collection of executive functions worksheets covers a wide range of exercises that may improve your client’s cognitive abilities. These worksheets are meticulously crafted to enhance your skills in areas such as time management, organization, problem-solving, and decision-making. With our PDF downloads, you conveniently build therapy plans using these exercises and use them directly with your clients. If you are not a clinician, you can use these to engage your cognitive skills as well!
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Are you looking for worksheets to be used in your identifying emotions activities? Then look no further! We’ve adapted our digital exercises to help you strengthen your client’s ability to identify and express emotions. Key features of this packet are:
- Emotion Recognition: Practice recognizing emotions at a glance. We’ve adapted our digital exercise, Ancient Writing, to use modern emotion-based emojis instead. Your client will have to read the emotions and identify which one does not belong.
- Expressive Vocabulary Building: This packet encourages exploring and incorporating diverse emotional words. Whether you’re seeking to expand your vocabulary or assist others in doing so, these exercises provide an enjoyable pathway. I Remember You is now into I Understand Your Emotions.
- Working Memory Recall: Can you recall the faces of different emotions at a moment’s notice? In contrast to typical n-back exercises, this packet has a series of emojis instead of colors or letters. This exercise would work great in this packet or on its own as a warm-up.
- Situational Response Practice: Elevate your client’s interpersonal interactions with informed emotional responses! Your client will have to engage in scenario-based activities that encourage thoughtful consideration of appropriate reactions to different emotional situations. Start to develop the ability to navigate conversations and relationships with empathy and grace.
Dive into the world of emotional vocabulary, recognition, memory reinforcement, and responsive communication with our Emotion Identification Worksheet Packet. Experience the transformational power of emotional intelligence today! Unlock the potential of emotions as you’ve never done before! Teachers, enrich your classroom with this packet and teach your students about emotional intelligence. Parents, start conversations with your kids about emotions. And lastly, therapists empower your clients to think about their emotions and maybe even enhance their understanding of emotions. We recommend this packet for any age who can identify emotions.
Included inside: 36 emotion worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this packet, explore our other social cognition worksheets →
Who let the dogs out!? Seriously, who let the dogs take over this attention worksheet? If you are looking for a great dog-themed attention worksheet, then look no further. This packet works on all major areas of attention but with a fun dog twist. Your client will have fun engaging their visual attention skills, their visual-spatial skills, and their ability to follow complex paths. Visual attention is an essential element of cognitive functions, we know that not every activity on the internet is fun and engaging. That is why we developed this fun packet to work on visual attention skills. This packet has the following exercises: Displaced Images, Gulf Stream, Dance with the Fireflies, and entangled figures.
If you enjoy these worksheets, make sure to try the digital versions of the exercises. We recommend this packet for all ages. We believe adults will benefit as much as a preschooler will as they practice this packet. We personally think the Dance with Fireflies, a dog walking path edition, is a fun way to practice working memory, visual attention, and spatial reasoning. Let us know what you think of this dog-themed attention worksheet!
Included inside: 31 worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this packet, explore our other attention worksheets →
Gidy-up farmers and animal lovers, this packet is designed for you! Visual-spatial activities have never been so FARMtastic as they are with this farm-themed worksheet packet. Visual-spatial skills are an essential element of cognitive function. Without being able to use our visual-spatial skills, we may struggle to fill grocery pages, tell items apart, or remember where we put things. It is an attention and memory skill that is developed as individual ages. So some small individuals may struggle with some of the tasks in this worksheet.
If you enjoy these worksheets, make sure to try the digital versions of the exercises. We personally think the American in Paris, farm edition exercise is a fun way to practice working memory, spatial memory, and planning all at once. This packet is best suited for individuals aged 7+.
Included inside: 30 worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this packet, explore our other visual-spatial worksheets →
Points of View’s purpose is to help individuals improve their visual-spatial abilities. In the digital version, the user is comparing directly on the screen. We’ve added an additional level of difficulty to this packet by making it a hybrid. The user no longer compares points of view directly on a screen, but they have to compare the worksheet to the screen as if they were holding a map in real life. This hybrid exercise will be a great way to practice using a map by orienting using visual-spatial skills to find the user’s unique orientation.
This worksheet is great to use with middle schoolers, older individuals, and non-English speakers or non-verbal individuals, or anyone who would like to practice using a map.
If you found this exercise to be fun, try the real-life orientation Packet #32. If you would like to practice other points of view exercise, click here →
Included inside: 6 worksheets, 24 activities, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
Towers of Hanoi takes on a fun change in this packet. The movers are coming, and you must move boxes carefully onto different carts to move them around safely. You have to make the following layout of boxes match the one below in the fewest moves possible. Additionally, You can not stack smaller boxes underneath bigger boxes. So be careful!
These worksheets are great to help your clients practice planning how to move things and practicing how to think before they do an action. These activities will be great for middle schoolers, individuals with planning deficits, Seniors, and anyone who wants to improve their planning skills.
Include inside: 7 worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like these worksheets, check out our other executive function worksheets here →
Embrace the spirit of Earth Day and harness the enduring strength of turtles! By engaging with our planning skills packet, they’ll not only develop essential life skills but also cultivate a deep appreciation for the planet we call home. At the heart of our cognitive rehabilitation offerings lies a profound admiration for the planet and its incredible inhabitants. Earth Day serves as the catalyst for our latest creation, a unique packet that draws inspiration from turtles’ resilient and steadfast nature. Just as these remarkable creatures inspire us with their strength and unwavering determination, we aim to inspire the development of essential planning skills in your clients through this engaging resource.
The central vision behind this packet is to challenge and enhance your client’s planning skills. In the ever-evolving world we inhabit, planning has become an indispensable skill. We not only use them to navigate daily tasks but also to overcome obstacles and adversities. Just like the determined journey a turtle makes everyday.
Why Turtles?
Turtles have long been symbols of resilience and strength. As your client engages with these exercises, we hope they’ll draw inspiration from the tenacity of turtles. Just as these creatures endure and persist. Your client can develop the skills needed to face life’s challenges head-on and emerge victorious.
Included inside: 33 worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this packet, explore our other executive function worksheets →
Don’t let this packet fool you! Easy turns hard quickly in this language-challenging packet. Language is an essential cognitive function for communication. It can be hard to express our needs without the ability to communicate. Our goal for this packet is to challenge your clients working language skills. In this packet, your client will work on sorting skills, verbal recall, and inferring skills.
In this packet, your client must use their sorting skills and verbal recall in a series of printed Pay Attention exercises. Embroidery will challenge your client’s attention to detail and scanning skills to find the typos in famous quotes. This Story is Full of Blanks will challenge your client’s inferrer skills as they use context clues to fill in the blanks properly. Seize the Keywords in this packet is a multi-dimension challenge. It starts off by having your client label the different parts of speech from within a sentence. Then it will challenge your client’s ability to memorize different parts of speech.
This packet has parts for all ages, but we highly recommend it for 6th graders and older. Your Senior clients will love the challenges it provides, and anyone who loves correcting English will love this packet as well!
Included inside: 27 worksheets and bridging questions.
We use our memory recall skills every day. Whether it is to remember where we placed our keys or recall information from a conversation, we are constantly using our memory recall skills. This packet aims to help individuals improve their memory function by stimulating different cognitive functions involved with memory recall.
We opened this packet with several The Right Count exercises. We included these types of activities as a way to warm up visual recognization skills and executive function sorting skills. After your patient’s visual cortex is warmed up. They will have to use their spatial memory in an Object, Where are You series of exercises. There are two ways to present the next tasks. Option one is to reud the voicemail to your patient out loud and engage their auditory process skills before they answer the questions. Or you can allow them to read the section to themselves. Both of these activities will warm up their verbal memory skills. The last section of this packet is a printed version of Around the World in 80 Trips. This exercise uses all of the previous skills to challenge your patient’s memory recall skills.
The interactive and sometimes challenging tasks in this packet are an excellent resource for your memory activity collection. Working on the memory activities in this packet may improve your patient’s memory recall ability. We recommend this packet for Teens, individuals looking for memory activities, and seniors.
Included inside: 38 worksheets and bridging questions.
Are you working on arithmetic reasoning with your patients? We’ve bundled a series of our arithmetic reasoning worksheets together to help you quickly find fun arithmetic reasoning activities to do with your patients.
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Bundles are a great way to buy more but for a discount. If you were to buy all of these packets separately, you would pay more than $60+. Because we’ve bundled it, you’re getting an instant saving of over 20%!
What’s included inside: Instant PDF downloads of 4 packets and 1 mini packet or 94 unique worksheets.
This packet aims to help individuals recognize items to improve their spatial awareness by studying unique key features of different objects. We hope your patient can better find themselves on a map.
We started this packet with an ancient writing task. In this task, your patient must study figures and discover which character does not appear in the section above. This will challenge their attention and working memory. Sleight of Hands is the next task. This exercise challenges your patient’s visual-spatial ability by having them mentally compare and decide if the picture displayed is a left or right hand. After that, Gulf Stream is the next task in this packet. Gulf Stream challenges your patient’s ability to remember objects and recall them as they appear on the screen. This printed version will challenge your patient’s ability to identify and find a snowflake in a mess of other snowflakes. Finally, the final exercise will test all the skills used in the previous activity. Points of View will challenge your patient’s spatial ability as your patient will try to figure out where you are on a map of objects.
In conclusion, we believe your patient will have fun completing this packet. The tasks are interactive and enjoyable, from noticing and remembering small details to mentally manipulating objects. Working on all the exercises in this packet may improve your patient’s spatial awareness. We recommend this packet for kids aged 6+, non-verbal individuals, and individuals who want to get better at figuring out where they are in time and space.
Included inside: 39 worksheets and bridging questions.
Counting down the New Year just got fun with this printable version of our digital exercise, The Right Count. Your patient’s Executive Functions may just be fully engaged with these worksheets. Your patient will have to read a box of numbers, remember where odd and even numbers are, and then sort them according to the instructions. This packet will progressively get more challenging as the quantity of numbers increases and the gaps become larger. For added challenges, try using a timer and see how long your patient takes to complete this task.
We hope your patients will enjoy this New Years themed packet! Perfect for warm-up, groups, non-English speakers, and children learning numbers.
Included: 12 worksheets, answer key, and bridging questions.
A wintery wonderland fills the pages of this holiday-influenced language-based worksheets packet. Your patient’s verbal memory will be engaged with this fun Split Word influence packet. This packet will progressively get harder as the puzzles continue. What may seem as easy will soon become tough as the fragments of words become more, and the hints become less. We hope your patients will enjoy this holiday-themed packet! It will be great to use as a warm-up or in a group setting!
This packet is great for kids learning how to spell, adults working on language recall, and anyone who wants to engage their brains.
Included: 9 worksheets and bridging questions.
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What is Executive Functions?
Executive functions refer to the cognitive processes involved in inhibition, decision-making, problem-solving, learning, and retrieving the correct information we have learned previously to complete a task.
Executive functioning occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain, which have many connections to other vital areas, such as the limbic system for emotion regulation. Given that, any work on executive functioning may just improve an individuals ability to emotionally regulate.
Why should I use your Executive Functioning Worksheets for Adults?
In truth, if you’re searching for comprehensive executive functioning worksheets for adults in PDF format, you’re in the right place. Our PDF downloads address various aspects of executive function, including working memory, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation. All while looking fun and not childish. We have a team of graphic designers who work on our products.
Do you have other activities?
Yes, we do! All of our worksheets are based on our digital tool, HappyNeuron Pro. If you enjoy using these worksheets we highly recommend checking out the capabilities of our digital tool. Additionally, by integrating our digital tool, you may just save yourself time and money all while building a strong therapeutic toolbox.
Why do you have Executive Functioning Activities for Adults?
Executive functioning is essential for success in both personal and professional life. Without strong executive functioning skills, individuals may have lower mental agility, an inability to stress management, and trouble with goal setting. Additionally, some new research suggests that strengthening executive functioning skills helps psychosis. Check out some of our recent research →
Why Choose HappyNeuron Pro's Executive Functions Worksheets?
Expertly Designed: Our worksheets and activities are designed by experts who specialize in enhancing executive functions for adults.
Proven Results: Many individuals have benefited from our resources, experiencing improved executive functioning skills and life satisfaction. If your client enjoys these, check out our digital exercises for executive function →
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