Dyslexia: meaning, symptoms, types and dyslexic activities
Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder characterized by an impaired ability to recognize words, slow and hesitant reading, and poor reading comprehension.
7 Exercises for the rehabilitation of visuospatial skills
Do you know what visuospatial skills are, why are they important, or how can they be improved? Today, we explain this cognitive function and introduce 7 exercises for the rehabilitation of visuospatial skills in adults and children. What are visuospatial skills? Visuospatial skill is the ability to represent, analyze, and mentally manipulate objects. There are two important …
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): Definition, classification and exercises for kids and adults
Do you know what activities of daily living are? Do you know the difference between basic and instrumental activities of daily living? Do you know how to improve ADLs? In today’s post, we explain what activities of daily living are, their classification, and also recommend several exercises for improving them.
10 Cognitive rehabilitation exercises: practical examples
Cognitive stimulation or cognitive rehabilitation is a set of techniques to improve the functioning of cognitive abilities.
Attention problems: what are they, types, symptoms and exercises to improve attention
We live in a time in which we are swamped with stimuli that make it difficult for us to maintain attention on a task. It is becoming more common to watch a movie while reading the news on the computer and texting on the phone at the same time. We are now used to perform several tasks simultaneously, but do we really pay enough attention to what we are doing? How can we tell when we are dealing with attention problems? Can attention be trained?
Exercises to improve praxis
Praxis refers to learned motor activity. In other words, praxis is the generation of volitional movement for the performance of a particular action or towards achieving a goal
Activities for the neuropsychological rehabilitation in patients with Broca’s aphasia
Language is the ability enabling humans to communicate with others by means of sounds, signs and symbols used to name the objects in the outside world, their actions, characteristics, and the connections between them.
Activities for improving orientation
For most of us, it can be easy to answer questions like who are you? where are you now? or what day is today? For those with orientation impairments, however, these questions are really complicated.
Crossed laterality and learning difficulties
What is laterality? Laterality is the distribution of functions across the two cerebral hemispheres. The preference for one side of the body over the other (right or left) to perform actions depends on this distribution. This laterality comes from the binary organization of our nervous system. In fact, this duality is found in our body: …
