Packet #48

This exercise challenges your client’s short-term memory. For each passage, your client will be asked questions pertaining to information provided in each email. They will have to recall the messages they have read and answer the questions as accurately as they can. For clients that have more severe cognitive impairments, you can allow them to reread or have the message side by side until they develop the skills to retain information without directly referring to the material.

Visual and spatial information is abundant in everyday life in the forms of road signs, traffic lights, warning labels, and icons on a computer screen. Being able to distinguish objects from one another and locate them efficiently is essential for driving, maintaining personal safety, and functioning in the workplace. Your client will engage their hippocampus while activating the connections between the visual processing streams to correctly identify, remember, and place the objects they have seen.

In this exercise, your client must correctly pair images of landmarks with their corresponding locations in the correct order. Your client must also pay attention to the order of their tour, which involves the frontal lobe. By learning strategies to effectively retain and execute verbal and visual information, your client will engage key brain regions and their interwoven connections with one another in this fun exercise.

Using knowledge of numerical order, clients must correctly sequence the numbers in either ascending or descending order. This exercise requires clients to scan for information, retain details, and use their knowledge of numbers to correctly order them. These skills are important for activities such as handling money and figuring out the best way to get to a destination.