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.…
Category: <span>Think (cognition)</span>
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…
Many of my patients ask for brain-training games. Not surprising, given that the brain-training game industry is projected to reach $8.06 billion dollars worldwide by 2021. But brain-training games are…
Ken was a quiet older gentleman who never initiated conversation. He had a great sense of humor, and would respond with short quips, but rarely said anything to extend a…
Attentive Reading and Constrained Summarization (ARCS) is designed for people who have problems with word-finding, topic maintenance, or other cognitive-linguistic skills at the level of discourse. “Discourse” refers to verbal…
Do your or your patient want to learn how to remember names better? Most adults I work with admit to some level of difficulty remembering names, and I’m no exception.…
Create your own single-use cognitive evaluation folders by choosing from more than 30 free assessment tools (or use your own). The earlier posts on swallowing and communication include free assessment…