planning Archives – Therapy Insights

Creating a Personalized Road Trip

January 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

Rehearse executive function skills and strategies with a personalized road trip activity.

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Planning a Children’s Birthday Party on a Budget

November 30, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This birthday party planning activity will allow the patient to make personalized selections and calculate the items to stay under budget.

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Cognitive Task: Pet Care

October 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This client-centered material focuses on the cognitive aspects of pet care with three different treatment options.

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Shopping Strategies for Executive Dysfunction

August 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout covers different strategies that can be used when shopping for individuals with executive functioning deficits.

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Cooking Strategies for Executive Dysfunction

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource covers different strategies to simplify and improve independence with cooking for individuals with executive functioning deficits.

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Organizing and Planning a Calendar: Volunteering and Family Vacation

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This scheduling task requires a person to use various executive function skills, including good initiation, visual scanning, divided visual attention, planning/organization, reading comprehension, written expression, and problem solving/reasoning.

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Laundry Visual Checklist

November 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This material provides simple pictures and instructions to support those with cognitive deficits with completing laundry tasks.

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Organizing a Calendar – College/School Related Tasks

July 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

Use a variety of cognitive and executive function skills to organize and prioritize a busy schedule related to college/school.

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Voicemail Task #2: Planning, Organizing, and Prioritizing Activities for a Week Based on Six Voicemails

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This activity is a real-world scenario where patients are provided with six audio and/or written voicemail messages and a weekly calendar in which they have to plan and organize their week. Decisions on which day to schedule an activity may have to be made based on other activities already scheduled.

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The Goal-Plan-Do-Review Treatment Strategy

January 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.

The Goal-Plan-Do-Review strategy is helpful to identify a person’s strengths and areas of assistance with executive function abilities. This resource includes are step-by-step areas to guide how to approach accomplishing a new goal.

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