Working Memory Activities
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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
When visual information is processed in our brains, we examine details and derive important information. Sometimes, this information is stored temporarily during a task in our working memory. Other times they are practiced and rehearsed to remain ingrained in our long-term memory. In this worksheet, we provide you with 4 exercises that target visual and verbal memory. Our goal was to help your patient see how they use visual and verbal memory skills daily in life skills such as grocery shopping and clothes shopping.
If you like this packet, try bridging workbook #1 which is about the cognitive skills required for grocery shopping. Additionally, try our digital program to strengthen the skills used in this packet.
This packet will be great to use one-on-one with your client or in group therapy sessions. It is well suitable for children aged 8+ and adults.
Included inside: 18 worksheets and bridging questions.
Forgot your grocery store list? Fear no more! With these exercises, you will learn about adaptability. Practice remembering words in a set, and recalling them for later use! Clients will be able to work on working memory, flexibility and organization. This exercise will target your verbal memory, and help you be able to remember a list that you make for your store trips!
Traveling is an exciting activity that requires lots of attention to detail and planning. In this mini packet, you will travel across the continental United States by starting at one location and having to arrive at a specific destination. Clients will have the opportunity to practice skills such as memory and attention while planning a trip. Choose your trip, and keep track of the places you see along the way!
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 →
We designed this packet to stimulate visual skills related to verbal attention. The goal of this packet is to engage all aspects related to verbal and visual attention skills. We believe Verbal and visual attention skills are essential to all cognitive functions, especially those around social cognition and language. This packet will start by challenging your patients with two different adaptations of our digital exercise Private Eye. In this first exercise, your patient will have to find perfect circles. The following exercise will challenge their ability to recognize the correlation between words and their meaning to determine which words do not belong. The following exercise is a modification of Elephant Memory. This modification requires your patient to study a scene and answer questions.
The last two exercises are focused directly on verbal attention. This last section starts with an adaption of Restaurant. This adaption aims to engage your patient’s ability to compare and contrast two recipes. Looking side by side, your patient will identify what was different between the recipes. Finally, your patient will have to read a passage and find the typos and errors in this modified version of This Story is Full of Blanks.
This packet is an excellent resource for teachers who want to challenge their students’ ability to process visual-verbal information. Therapists have also used this packet to help stimulate patients with brain injuries that affect their verbal attention skills or aphasia.
Included Inside: 13 pages and bridging questions.
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.
Recovering from a stroke involves addressing various cognitive challenges, including impacts on verbal fluency, semantic knowledge, memory, attention, and motor skills. Our carefully curated packet aims to provide targeted exercises for key cognitive areas affected by a stroke, fostering a comprehensive approach to rehabilitation.
Unlock the Potential for Recovery:
- Catch the Ladybug – Fine Motor skills. Focus on hand movement and coordination through an engaging activity to enhance motor skills. The ladybug exercise offers a dynamic approach to physical rehabilitation.
- Root It Out – Verbal Memory Recall. Stimulate long-term verbal memory recall with “Root It Out,” encouraging patients to unearth and remember words and fostering language recovery captivatingly.
- Private Eye – Inferencing Skills. This packet’s version of Private Eye prompts patients to utilize their inferring skills, enhancing cognitive processes by encouraging deduction and critical thinking.
- Which Doesn’t Belong – Attention and Categorization. Engage attention and categorization skills with an exercise challenging patients to identify the item that doesn’t belong. This variation of Private Eye adds an element of cognitive complexity.
- Fill in the Blank – Modified Story Recall. A tailored version of “This Story is Full of Blanks,” this exercise promotes verbal memory as patients recall personal facts. Tailored to encourage storytelling and self-expression.
Versatile for Individual and Group Therapy: These worksheets are adaptable to various therapeutic settings. Try these exercises with individuals or group therapy sessions. Additionally, these worksheets create flexible rehabilitation strategies for each patient’s unique needs. With this in mind, if you enjoy these printable exercises, check out our digital exercises for stroke patients.
Included inside: 10 general stroke activities and bridging questions
Lastly, discover the power of targeted exercises to rebuild cognitive functions and inspire confidence in the recovery process. Explore our entire worksheets for stroke patients here →
Information retention and recall are essential for everyday tasks. In this packet, your client will be challenged with tasks that will help them remember the locations of words and objects and recall orders and names. The exercises in this packet will target their verbal memory, spatial memory, working memory, and word association. They will start the packet with their verbal and spatial memory challenged with a Words, Where are You? exercise. Next, they will have to recall orders of a group of people at a Restaurant. Then they will get a short break from words as they just have to recall the shapes from one page to the next. Finally, they will have to recall people’s names. This worksheet is helpful for anyone who would like to improve and adapt their strategies for memory.
Included inside: 15 pages and bridging questions.
Does your client find focusing tough? What about recognizing patterns or pattern recognition? Do they struggle with paying attention to details? If so, then this packet will be a great tool to use with them. These attention-focused worksheets will challenge your patient to strengthen their attention skills. If you find the Find your Way exercise enjoyable, you’ll love the digital version.
This attention packet is an excellent workout for your client’s brain, as they must have a sharp eye to solve these attention-grabbing problems in this packet! If you like this pattern recognition packet, explore our other attention worksheets below or here.
Included: 8 worksheets and bridging questions.
We designed our packet to foster cognitive development with a fun Easter theme! We aimed to target visual attention, stimulate language skills, and enhance visual memory in a fun-themed way! This comprehensive worksheet package consists of five engaging and unique exercises designed to challenge and captivate individuals of all ages.
Exercise 1: Semantic Language Puzzles The journey begins with exercises that test patience and semantic understanding. Participants will see an image and have to decipher the correct spelling of the associated word beneath it. These exercises stimulate cognitive functions while providing a fun linguistic challenge.
Exercise 2: Image-Based Questions In this section, participants answer questions based on images they have previously studied. This Easter-themed activity reinforces memory retention and encourages critical thinking.
Exercise 3: Lexical Semantics and Attention One key image becomes the focal point in this exercise. Participants must apply their lexical semantics and attention skills to select the correct answer. This may help promote language development and visual attention.
Exercises 4 and 5: The Easter spirit is infused into the last two exercises. Participants must carefully study a group of eggs and identify the new addition, strengthening their visual memory. Finally, In the final exercise, participants are tasked with recalling the locations of Easter eggs on a grid. Based on our digital exercise chunking.
Included: 27 worksheets and Bridging Questions.
Are you looking for other working memory worksheets? Check out or library of working memory worksheets here →
Information retention and recall are essential for everyday tasks. We hope you will enjoy using this memory packet for your cognitive rehabilitation needs. After using these printable memory worksheets, you can work with your client to develop effective memorization and recall strategies to hopefully improve their ability to store and use information when needed.
This worksheet is helpful for any client who would like to improve and adapt their strategies for memory. Due to the low verbal nature of this packet, it will be a great tool to use with kids! Preschoolers would have a blast playing with this packet. If you like this packet, check our library of other printable memory worksheets and try our digital tool!
Included: 18 worksheets and bridging worksheets.
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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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