According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, cognitive decline occurs in 50-60% of people living with multiple sclerosis. Research suggests that it’s possible to improve cognition in multiple sclerosis. People…
Category: <span>Think (cognition)</span>
In this post, I’m sharing a quick and easy memory exercise. Use this 2-minute video and these fill-in-the-blank sentences to challenge yourself or your patient to improve short term memory.…
Many of my patients want to improve auditory memory, or memory for what they hear. They complain that they can’t remember recent conversations. Some report they no longer enjoy watching…
Use this easy calendar exercise to address reading, writing, auditory comprehension, verbal expression, and cognitive-communication skills. Here you’ll find 40 questions that you can use directly or as a starting…
Write better cognitive goals by working with your patient to identify the real-life skills and activities they want to improve with speech therapy. Here are 54 ideas for cognitive therapy,…
Here are 60 quick exercises to help you improve working memory. Working memory is an important mental skill that helps us process information for immediate tasks and for long-term learning.…
Five books offer insight into living the best life with dementia. While there are many kinds of dementia, most have in common that a person continues to lose bits of…
Learn how to use this BE FAST video for speech therapy. Not only can you teach your patient this life-saving information, but you can also follow this lesson plan to…
Professors McKay Moore Sohlberg and Lyn S. Turkstra share six questions to help us plan cognitive therapy, one for each of the familiar sequence of WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY,…
One of the most common questions I get is “How do I improve my short term memory?” By “short term memory”, they mean remembering things over the course of a…