Working Memory Activities
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Figuring out left and right hands can be a fun and challenging activity; now imagine it as a hybrid activity. That is precisely what this packet is! Based on our digital exercise, Sleight of Hand, this hybrid packet will be great for groups and individuals. This packet will leave people laughing as they try to figure out which hand is left or right. This might seem like an easy task, but be careful! Some of the hands are a reflection. Some hands are not what they seem, and you must figure that out. This activity is great to help individuals practice differentiating shapes and could be used as a warm-up for any turning around and around exercise.
We hope your patients will enjoy this Magic-themed left and right-hand packet! Perfect for all ages, warm-ups, groups, and non-English speakers.
Included: 3 worksheets, 3 videos, an answer key, and bridging questions.
Social Cognition and Memory are the focus of this worksheet packet. This worksheet packet is packed full. 21 unique exercises span 38 pages in the packet. The key theme of this packet is emotions.
This packet will start by focusing on individuals and their emotions. Your patient must recognize emotions in each person’s face to correctly pick them out from the word box. Next, your patient will have to sort a list of emotional words alphabetically. This may help their memory recall emotion-based words in a normal sentence. After they review the bunches of emotional words, your patient will then have to memorize a list of emotions and find it in a mess of other emotions. This will use help to engage their verbal working memory. Lastly, your patient will have to do 3 different variations of root it out. The first is an unscrambled version. The second is a fill-in-the-missing letter. The last exercise is like the digital exercise Root it Out, except your patient must recall emotion-based words that start with a given letter.
From remembering people’s names and emotions to recalling emotional words, your patients will enjoy this packet. We recommend this packet for kids aged 8+ and individuals who want to work on their emotions.
Included inside: 38 worksheets and bridging questions.
Holiday decoration fills the pages of this holiday-influenced visual-spatial memory worksheets packet. Your patient’s visual-spatial memory will be engaged with this fun holiday-themed Objects, Where Are You packet. This packet will progressively get more challenging as the puzzles continue. Your patient will watch the ornaments appear on the video, and after a long time, they will be asked to recall which ornament was located on the grid on the paper before them.
We hope your patients will enjoy this holiday-themed packet! Perfect for non-verbal individuals, non-English speakers, and children. It will also be great to use as a warm-up or in a group setting.
Included: 9 hybrid worksheets, 3 videos, 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.
Verbal Focus and Recall are the focus of this fun packet of worksheets. Your patients will have 35 unique pages of language-based exercises that may help with these skills. This packet will start by warming up their attention and sorting skills with some fun Private Eye and Hurray for Change exercises. After they complete those two segments, the harder verbal focus and recall exercises will begin. Your patient will decode a box of letters to find what word is embroidered within the grid. Verbal attention and verbal recall are challenged with these Embroidery exercises. Lastly, your patient will have to solve some Writing in the Stars exercises. Writing in the Stars will challenge your patient’s verbal processing, verbal attention, and verbal planning skills.
We recommend this packet for kids aged 8+ and individuals who want to work on their verbal skills.
Included inside: 35 worksheets and bridging questions.
In this hybrid packet, your patient will become an international tourist traveling around the world. They will explore Sydney, Australia, New York City, USA, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In this packet, they will have to watch and recall the places and locations of each attraction they visited. This exercise will engage your patient’s visual-spatial memory and verbal memory recall. This printed adaption of An American in Paris may spark fun conversation around each place they visited in this activity.
This packet will be great for anyone who is working on visual-spatial memory. This packet is great for all ages! Try it in your classroom, in a group, or one-on-one today!
Included: 6 worksheets and bridging questions.
In this hybrid packet, three types of stimuli (a letter, a red leaf, and a white pumpkin) will appear one after the other at different spots anywhere on the screen. This exercise will engage your patient’s processing speed and spatial memory. It will also help to determine how quickly your patient can recall whether the white pumpkin appears above or below the red leaf. This packet will be great for group warm-ups, working on visual attention and spatial memory. You can make this packet as easy or as hard as you would like either. Try slowing down the video, replaying it several times, or speeding it up to increase or decrease the challenge. The potential use of this packet is endless.
This packet is great for all ages! No language is involved!
Included: 3 worksheets, each activity will last at least 5 minutes a page, bridging questions, and an answer key.
Download this memory-centered action-packed packet! Your patient will have 32 unique pages filled with memory exercises with 6 pages focused on visual attention worksheets. (Yes, you read that right, we snuck in a little visual attention). We did theme this packet to have a cozy autumn feeling. We hope your patient will see how this packet will help them bridge cognitive rehabilitation therapy to real-life activities.
Displaced images will challenge your patient’s ability to see the differences between pumpkins and other autumn-themed items. Shapes and Colors may stimulate your patient’s ability to remember objects and their shapes in a mess of items. I Remember You may help your patient be able to recognize the names of the baristas at their favorite cafes. Heraldry will be the final challenge. Not only will they have to remember the shapes, colors, and patterns of mugs, but they will have to do that AFTER they sort a list of words or numbers. We hope your patients will enjoy exploring everything this packet offers.
We recommend this packet for kids aged 6+, individuals who want to work on their working memory, and anyone who loves an excellent fall-themed cognitive activity.
Included inside: 38 worksheets and bridging questions.
If your patient’s favorite season is fall or autumn, this packet is for them. Our cognitive flexibility exercise, Hurray for Change, takes on a fall seasonally apparel. Work on your patient’s cognitive flexibility or ability to switch between different stimuli to create a path connecting both sets of stimuli as fast and as smoothly as possible. The lower levels of this packet will require your patient to connect items numerically or alphabetically. This will be great for individuals who are learning to read or want to improve their letter and word categorization. The upper levels will change your patient’s ability to switch between numerical and language stimuli. Executive function, language comprehension, and working memory are all challenged in this mini packet.
This packet is great for all ages! Everyone can and should work on their cognitive flexibility, regardless of age. Try using this with your patients with aphasia and ask them to read out each word.
Included: 9 worksheets, bridging questions, and an answer key.
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.
This mini seamlessly integrates brain training activities for auditory attention with the joys of nature. To clarify, participants are invited to listen to birds’ melodic tweets and chirps and remember details about their sounds. The connection between memory and attention is essential to auditory processing, and our mini aims to engage these cognitive functions.
This brain training activity is based on our digital exercise, Bird Song. Bird Song has an even more extensive library of bird noises to engage your clients in fun and enjoyable brain-training activities.
Recommended for All Audiences:
Whether you’re seeking brain training activities for personal, group sessions, or individuals, this mini is tailored to meet diverse needs. It is ideal for those looking to engage in auditory processing and memory skills. Accessible and enjoyable, it provides a holistic approach to cognitive development. Designed with inclusivity, we believe participants as young as 4 can delight in the bird noises within this packet, fostering cognitive growth from an early age.
Included inside: 6 worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
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Semantic (category) fluency and letter (phonemic) fluency are the focus of this worksheet packet. Displaced Characters is the first exercise. Your patient will have to read words on one side of the paper and figure out which word is missing on the other side. This game increases in difficulty when your patient has to do this with an entire sentence. Next, your patient will have to figure out what fragments of words can create full words in our printed version of Split Words. The following exercise in this worksheet packet is Decipher. Your patient will have to decipher these very long quotes from famous people. But don’t worry, we’ve given your patients hints. The last exercise works specifically on semantic or category fluency. Your patient will have to sort lists of words into categories.
This packet is excellent for elementary school students and children with reading disabilities. Individuals who have aphasia or have experienced a decline in verbal functioning skills may also find this packet enjoyable.
Included inside: 25 worksheets and bridging questions.
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What is Working Memory?
Working memory is a fundamental cognitive function that plays a crucial role in our daily lives. It allows us to temporarily store and manipulate information, which is essential for tasks like problem-solving, decision-making, and learning. A strong working memory can significantly improve your overall cognitive abilities. Without recalling words, names, locations, directions, we would wonder alone and lost without the ability to communicate.
Do you have other Working Memory 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.
What else do you have to offer in printable format?
Explore our entire library of working memory activities in a printable worksheet format. We have packets, mini packets, and bundles that focus on working memory. Your patients will love these activities!
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