Executive Functions Worksheets
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Executive Functions Worksheets
Our collection of executive functions worksheets may improve your client’s cognitive abilities. With our PDF downloads, you can conveniently build therapy plans using these worksheets. If you are not a clinician, you can use these to engage your cognitive skills as well!
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Mental movement is a complex cognitive skill needed to plan things out. It helps with visual-spatial skills and the ability to organize information, make mental-visual comparisons, and overall decisions based upon order or comparison.
In this worksheet, we’re providing you with 4 exercises to use with your clients to practice strategies related to mental movement, whether mentally moving a ball from one hoop to another or remembering where objects are placed. You are using language clues and space markers to solve a sentence. Or even mentally reflecting on a pattern, this packet has all that and more. Your client will be exposed to different task requirements, all sharing the underlying component of mentally moving objects.
This worksheet challenges: working memory, attention, visual-spatial skills, and language.
Included inside: 19 worksheets and bridging questions
Are you a good baker? Put together various pies in as few moves as possible. Be careful! Don’t forget the toppings! Clients will learn all about organization, metacognition, and attention to detail during this exercise. This packet will challenge your ability to plan and make decisions, which are key components of executive functioning.
Prepare for a cinematic adventure at an international film awards show with our engaging worksheet! As you immerse yourself in the glitz and glamour of the event, you’ll be tasked with remembering verbal and visual information related to the various awards and their recipients. This exercise is a valuable opportunity to hone your memory skills and develop strategies for recalling specific details in a given context.
From the names of the awards to the individuals who receive them, this worksheet will challenge you to retain and recall intricate details associated with each prestigious honor. By practicing this exercise, you’ll enhance your ability to remember verbal and visual information and refine your overall memory recall strategies.
Join us on this cinematic journey and discover the thrill of remembering key details amidst the excitement of an international film awards ceremony. With popcorn in hand and your memory skills ready, you will surely enjoy this immersive and entertaining activity.
Our digital exercise, “I Remember You,” inspired this mini. From recalling names and faces, everyone uses this activity daily.
Use the worksheets in this packet to help practice inference skills. Your patient must use their semantic memory, visual attention, and verbal processing skills to complete the exercises in this packet. We’ve used exercises like Writing in the Stars and Embroidery to help your patient work on verbal inference skills. Basketball in NY works on sequencing inferring skills. Our last activity, Decipher, is our ultimate decoding and inferring task. If your patient loves this packet, they will enjoy our digital program!
This packet is great for students in 5th grade or older. Individuals who want to work on their language skills after a stroke. Or anyone who wants to try decoding these fun language exercises.
Included inside: 12 language worksheets and bridging questions.
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.
Are you looking for effective ways to support individuals with Aphasia in improving their language and cognitive abilities? Our carefully crafted packet makes practicing language fun! We understand that many individuals possess remarkable intelligence but face language-related challenges. Our goal is to empower clinicians with resources to help them overcome Aphasia and enhance their communication skills hopefully.
In this packet, you’ll find five engaging activities based on our language-based digital exercises. These exercises are strategically designed to address the underlying language components individuals may struggle with. Providing these exercises may enable your clients to make significant progress in their language abilities.
In addition to language improvement, our worksheets also target other essential cognitive functions required for language success. Other cognitive skills engaged in this packet are:
- Executive Functioning: Our exercises challenge executive functions, helping individuals with Aphasia enhance their decision-making, planning, and problem-solving skills.
- Working Memory: These worksheets engage working memory, a vital cognitive skill necessary for retaining and processing information effectively.
- Attention: Our exercises promote focused attention, a crucial skill for clear communication and daily activities.
We believe that with the proper tools, clinicians can create environments of learning and recovery. It is for that reason that we develop worksheets like this and more. Make sure also to download our other free worksheets. We release free mini worksheets 2x a month.
Included inside: 17 worksheets and bridging questions.
Looking for more resources? Check out our other aphasia-focused worksheets →
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.
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! →
Traumatic brain injury impacts millions of people worldwide. Each brain injury is different, resulting in a variance of cognitive difficulties experienced by patients. This worksheet contains exercises that engage in executive functioning, spatial memory, and attention. Our goal with this packet was to make a general packet full of printable cognitive worksheets for adults with a brain injury. Each exercise is based on our digital program. If your patients love the exercises in this program, you will love using our digital program.
Try this packet designed for clients with brain injury today! This packet can be used with children as well. If you are looking for other cognitive worksheets for adults with a brain injury, check out our full library of printable activities here.
Included inside: 14 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. We use this when we plan out our days or decided if we should go out with friends at 9pm or to go bed. It is an essential cognitive function.
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. In fact, 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. In view of this, if your client enjoys these, check out our digital exercises for executive function →
Convenient PDF Format: Download, print, and engage in executive functioning exercises at your own convenience.
