Activities to improve executive functions
As we promised, today we are sharing some activities to improve executive functions.
Activities to improve executive functions:
1. Bottle Caps
In this exercise, clients have to arrange the moving bottle caps in ascending order. By practicing this activity, they train three executive functions in particular: working memory, inhibition, and hemineglect. Sustained attention is also trained.
This cognitive rehabilitation activity to improve executive functions is also available for children under the name “The Little Glutton“, a game in which children have to eat all the cookies, though of course, in strict numerical sequence.
2. Word Association
This worksheet trains reasoning skills. Clients have to be able to match words that are associated to each other. Like other worksheets at NeuronUP, “Word Association” includes several levels of difficulty ranging from basic to advanced.
Intermediate Level
Listed below is an intermediate level worksheet.
We have connected several concepts:
- Profession-trade-employment
- Trimester-semester-millennium
- Herbivore-omnivore-carnivore
Can your clients match all the missing concepts?
3. Mixed Images
In this activity specifically designed for children, kids must move the squares in an orderly manner until creating the desired image. This is a task to train planning, as well as other cognitive functions such as visuospatial skills and spatial relations.
Can the kids put it together correctly?
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4. Hit the target
Here is a worksheet to train cognitive flexibility, working memory, and reasoning. This activity involves coming up with moves to reach the given score. Keep in mind that all the moves must be different.
This activity includes several levels of difficulty ranging from basic to advanced.
Advanced Level
5. Time Estimation
We hope these activities to improve executive functions have been useful to you for training your clients!
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5 Actividades para mejorar las funciones ejecutivas
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Algunas actividades para trabajar funciones ejecutivas como memoria de trabajo, planificación, razonamiento o inhibición que utilizan los profesionales que trabajan con NeuronUP
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Excelente material
Excelente material,es de gran utilidad.Gracias
Estoy leyendo este trabajo y me parece de mucha utilidad para ayudar a las personas que tienen problemas con sus funciones ejecutivas ; quisiera saber si tienen algún material disponible que pueda ser utilizado con personas que tienen pérdida de su capacidad cognitiva y asi poder ayudar en algo a ver si pueden mejorar en algo esas funciones ejecutivas mermadas, gracias.
Hola Rubén,
Los ejercicios que contiene el artículo son algunos de los ejemplos de los miles de ejercicios que puedes encontrar en NeuronUP, nuestra plataforma de neurorrehabilitación. Si quieres probar los ejercicios con tus usuarios, puedes hacerlo solicitando una demo en el siguiente enlace:https://www.neuronup.com/es/request/demo/ext/4
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