Which cognitive skills do Letter Detective and Rotated Letters target?

Letter Detective trains vocabulary and discrimination; Rotated Letters improves visuospatial skills and selective attention. Other activities target semantic memory, episodic memory, place orientation and executive functions.

In what formats and languages are NeuronUP children's activities available?

Most activities are available in digital format and many include printable paper sheets. Select activities offer multiple languages such as Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, German and Italian.

Can the activities be adjusted by difficulty for individual users?

Yes. Several activities include multiple difficulty levels (for example, 77 sheets across five levels and nine levels for Hidden Sounds) and generator settings that allow clinicians to tailor tasks to developmental needs.

Are there videos and adult versions for some NeuronUP activities?

Yes. Tutorial and demonstration videos are available for many activities on YouTube. Some child activities have adult counterparts, such as Household Objects and Locate sounds.

How can professionals incorporate these activities into cognitive rehabilitation interventions?

Use structured activities to target specific deficits—semantic or episodic memory, attention, visuospatial skills—within individualized sessions, combining digital exercises and printed sheets to measure progress and support functional goals.

2024 Activities for Children’s Cognitive Stimulation

Q: What are the 2024 cognitive stimulation activities for children at NeuronUP?

A 2024 compilation of NeuronUP's child-focused cognitive stimulation activities, including Letter Detective, Rotated Letters, Organize Your House, Learn Categories by Matching and Hidden Sounds, designed to train memory, attention, language and executive functions.

Discover in this article the rehabilitation and cognitive stimulation activities for children that defined NeuronUP’s 2024.

Cognitive stimulation in children is one of the key pillars for fostering the development of skills such as memory, attention, and executive functions. That’s why it’s essential to have innovative, effective resources.

In this article, we offer you a compilation of the cognitive stimulation activities we published throughout 2024 so you can review them and incorporate them into interventions with your young users.

New cognitive stimulation activities for children

Letter Detective
Rotated Letters
Organize Your House
Learn Categories by Matching
Lightning Categories
Which One Exists?
The Missing Number
Letter Detective
Word Pairs
Learn the Names (audio)
Each Word with Its Family
Hidden Sounds

1. Letter Detective

Detective-themed worksheet page showing letters and phoneme–grapheme matching tasks for Letter Detective activity. — Letter Detective, a children’s activity to associate phoneme with grapheme.

What does it involve?

Letter Detective is an activity in which young users must indicate the position of the requested letter shown at the top of the screen.

Thanks to its 77 different worksheets, organized into five different difficulty levels, cognitive stimulation professionals can work on children’s vocabulary and discrimination skills.

In what format and language is it available?

Letter Detective is available in Spanish in digital and paper formats.

Video of the Letter Detective activity

2. Rotated Letters

Rotated letters activity visual by NeuronUP showing letters at angles to aid dyslexia literacy practice. — NeuronUP generator to work on visuospatial skills and selective attention in children: *Rotated Letters*.

What does it involve?

Rotated Letters is an activity that involves detecting and pointing out, within a group of rotated letters, the letter shown at the top of the screen.

This is an early literacy generator for children that helps young users train their visuospatial skills and selective attention.

In what format and language is it available?

Rotated Letters is available in:

Digital format in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, and German.
Paper format in Spanish.

Video of the Rotated Letters activity

3. Organize Your House

Organized home learning corner with shelves, labeled bins, and activity stations for children's cognitive stimulation. — NeuronUP worksheets to work on spatial orientation in children: *Tidy Up the House*.

What does it involve?

Organize Your House is an activity in which young users must match different common household items with their usual location.

With these worksheets, children not only practice spatial orientation, but professionals also help them situate themselves within a house, categorize, support their logical thinking, and relate items according to their usefulness.

In what format and language is it available?

Organize Your House is available in:

Digital format in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Catalan.
Paper format in Spanish and English.

Other versions

This activity has an adult version called Household Objects.

Video of the Organize Your House activity

4. Learn Categories by Matching

NeuronUP generator to work on semantic memory in children: *Learn Categories by Matching*.

What does it involve?

Learn Categories by Matching is an activity in which children have to match the requested item with the category it belongs to.

This is a generator with which rehabilitation and cognitive stimulation professionals can support young users’ semantic memory.

In what format and language is it available?

Learn Categories by Matching is available in Spanish in both digital and paper formats.

Video of the Learn Categories by Matching activity

5. Lightning Categories

Screenshot of NeuronUP Lightning Categories game interface for neuropsychological stimulation in children. — NeuronUP game to work on inhibition, processing speed, and sustained attention in children: *Lightning Categories*.

What does it involve?

Lightning Categories is an activity in which young users must tap as quickly as possible, and only, on the words that belong to the category shown at the top.

This game, divided into nine different difficulty phases, is designed to work on children’s inhibition, processing speed, and sustained attention.

In what format and language is it available?

Lightning Categories is available in Spanish in digital format.

Other versions

This game has an adult version called Timed Categories.

Video of the Lightning Categories activity

6. Which One Exists?

NeuronUP dyslexia worksheet showing letter discrimination tasks on a learning dashboard for stimulation interventions — NeuronUP worksheet to work on discrimination in children: *Which One Exists?*.

What does it involve?

Which One Exists? is an activity in which children must identify which word is spelled correctly among a set of options.

These worksheets, organized into five difficulty levels, are designed to train discrimination by requiring young users to pay attention to the details of each word. They are especially useful for working with children with dyslexia and attention difficulties.

In what format and language is it available?

Which One Exists? is available in Spanish in digital and paper formats.

Other versions

This activity has an adult version called Visual discrimination of a real word.

Video of the Which One Exists? activity

7. The Missing Number

NeuronUP number-sequence worksheet showing a sequence with a missing item for sustained attention practice in children. — NeuronUP worksheet to work on sustained attention in children: *The Missing Number*.

What does it involve?

The Missing Number is an activity that involves identifying the numbers that are missing to complete a sequence.

With these worksheets, organized into five difficulty levels, children can train sustained attention.

In what format and language is it available?

The Missing Number is available in Spanish, English, and French in both digital and paper formats.

Other versions

This activity has an adult version called Find the missing numbers.

Video of the The Missing Number activity

8. Word Pairs

Word Pairs activity cards displaying grouped word pairs to develop children's cognitive reasoning skills. — NeuronUP generator to work on reasoning in children: *Word Pairs*.

What does it involve?

Word Pairs is an activity designed for children to create pairs of words according to the category they belong to.

This is a generator focused on training reasoning ability. With it, cognitive stimulation professionals can improve young users’ cognitive abilities and help them understand relationships between items.

In what format and language is it available?

Word Pairs is available in Spanish in both digital and paper formats.

Video of the Word Pairs activity

9. Learn the Names (audio)

NeuronUP game to work on episodic memory in children: *Learn the Names (audio)*.

What does it involve?

Learn the Names (audio) is an activity that involves listening, memorizing, and matching the names of the people shown on screen with their corresponding photos.

Thanks to this game, organized into nine different difficulty phases, young users train their auditory episodic memory in an entertaining way.

In what format and language is it available?

Learn the Names (audio) is available in Spanish in digital format.

Other versions

This activity also has a version for children called Learn the Names.

Video of the Learn the Names (audio) activity

10. Each Word with Its Family

Interface with word cards grouped by category for semantic memory practice in children, titled Each Word with Its Family. — NeuronUP generator to work on semantic memory in children: *Each Word with Its Family*.

What does it involve?

Each Word with Its Family is an activity based on matching concepts with the category they belong to.

With this generator, cognitive stimulation professionals can exercise children’s semantic memory. At the same time, by supporting them in recognizing concepts and linking them to the correct category, it encourages reasoning and decision-making.