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Cognitive Strategy Rehearsal Activity: Scanning Dog Food Labels

August 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

Practice implementation of aids/strategies to compensate for cognitive impairments with real-life activity determining which type of dog food has the least amount of low-nutritional value and/or harmful ingredients.

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Working Memory Activities for Teens and TBIs

August 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

Quick and easy activities to do with teens to support their working memory skills following a TBI.

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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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Working Memory Practice

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This activity allows for the practice of this everyday skill and can help train the use of strategies if needed.

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Working Memory and Adaptive Strategies

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Working memory is an essential part of everyday short term memory. Finding strategies for adapting to the loss of this executive function can mitigate declines associated with early stage dementia and improve independence with completion of everyday skills.

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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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Types of Memory

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

The handout helps increase insight into the way that the brain creates and stores memory and how targeted functional therapy can optimize each type of memory.

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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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Executive Functions

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.

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.

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Attention to Detail: A Proofreading Task

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This intervention requires an individual to remember the directions, sustain attention to the task, alternate attention, and make judgments during this higher-level cognitive-linguistic task. (11th-grade reading level). The task challenges people to catch typos while also reading the material to answer content questions.

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