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.
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.
This schedule organization task requires a person to use a variety of executive function skills including good initiation, visual scanning, divided visual attention, planning/organization, reading comprehension, written expression, and problem solving/reasoning.
Listening to voicemails can target a person’s attention, auditory short-term memory, inferences abilities. The patient can listen to the recordings or the SLP reading the transcripts for each voicemail during this task. Then they can answer the comprehension questions to target auditory short-term memory recall and make inferences with the given information.
Handout illustrating the cognitive-linguistic scope of practice for speech-language pathologists. This handout describes a brief history of the field and breaks down the following cognitive-linguistic therapy targets: Initiation, anticipation, sequencing, impulse control, attention, memory, planning, organization, problem solving, visuospatial processing.
This resource describes what executive functions are to educate patients and their caregivers. Includes information about attention, processing speed, regulation, awareness, initiation, response inhibition, self-monitoring, mental flexibility, organization, sequencing, working memory, and planning. Second page includes a list of assessments specifically designed for targeting executive functions.
Many cognitive-linguistic skills are used when determining the best choice for housing when a person is looking at the market available. In this housing ad activity, a person must determine which type of housing to pick based on specific preferences the buyer has given as well as answer questions related to compromises that have to be made.
This therapy task targets planning, organizing, calculation, and cognitive flexibility. Patients are challenged to calculate the cost of various dinner party food options based on grocery prices and recipes.