In this article we present the cognitive rehabilitation and stimulation activities for adults that marked NeuronUP’s 2024.
One of the key aspects of neurorehabilitation for adults with cognitive impairment is cognitive stimulation. For this reason, it is essential for professionals in this field to have the necessary effective resources to work on the affected skills and areas.
Throughout 2024, at NeuronUP we have published a wide variety of activities that will help you improve your patients’ interventions. Discover them now and feel encouraged to include them in your sessions!
New cognitive stimulation activities for adults
- Categories Against Time
- Change of position
- Remember the Names
- Locate sounds
- Words with a specified initial
- Explore and find
1. Categories Against Time
What does it involve?
Categories Against Time is an activity in which users must choose the items that match the indicated category as quickly as possible.
With this game, cognitive stimulation professionals can train their patients’ inhibition, processing speed, and sustained attention.
Difficulty levels
Categories Against Time is organized into nine different difficulty phases that will progress depending on the correct and incorrect answers achieved in each session.
What format and languages is it available in?
The Categories Against Time activity is available in digital format in Spanish, English, French, Catalan, and German.
Video of the Categories Against Time activity
2. Change of position
What does it involve?
Change of position is an activity that involves viewing and memorizing the location of different objects and then indicating it again on an empty template.
With these worksheets, users can exercise working memory and spatial relations.
Difficulty levels
Change of position is arranged in five different difficulty levels. As the level increases, the complexity of each worksheet also increases.
What format and languages is it available in?
The Position Change activity is available in:
- Digital format in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, German, and Italian.
- Paper format in Spanish, English, and French.
Video of the Change of position activity
3. Remember the Names (audio)
What does it involve?
Remember the Names (audio) is an activity in which users must listen, memorize, and match the audio of each person’s name with their corresponding image.
With this game, they can exercise episodic memory, as they must retain the names of different people.
Difficulty levels
Remember the Names (audio) allows you to work through nine different difficulty phases depending on the correct and incorrect answers each user achieves.
What format and languages is it available in?
The Remember the Names (audio) activity is available in digital format in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, and Italian.
Video of the Remember the Names (audio) activity
4. Locate sounds
What does it involve?
Locate sounds is an activity that involves memorizing sounds, memorizing their position, and tapping where they were.
With this game, cognitive stimulation professionals can work on their patients’ episodic memory through listening to and memorizing everyday sounds.
Difficulty levels
Locate sounds is organized into nine difficulty levels, with the first being the easiest and the ninth the most challenging. Users will move between levels depending on their correct or incorrect answers.
What format is it available in?
The Locate sounds activity is available in digital format in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, and Italian.
Video of the Locate sounds activity
5. Words with a specified initial
What does it involve?
Words with a Words with a specified initial is an activity in which users have to list as many words as possible that begin with a specific letter.
These worksheets allow you to train verbal fluency.
Difficulty levels
Words with a Words with a specified initial is organized into three different difficulty levels. As users advance in level, the worksheets require greater effort.
What format and languages is it available in?
This activity is available exclusively in paper format for professional users who work with NeuronUP in Spanish.
6. Explore and find
What does it involve?
Explore and Find is an activity that consists of locating and selecting specific objects from among a wider set that includes distracting elements.
With this game, they can exercise selective attention in a playful way, as they must maintain attention in order to find the requested elements.
Difficulty levels
Explore and Find allows you to work through twelve different difficulty phases depending on the correct and incorrect answers each user achieves.
What format and languages is it available in?
The activity is available in digital format for professionals and users who work with NeuronUP in Spanish.
Other versions
This activity also has a version for children called Search and You’ll Find!.
Video of the Explore and Find activity
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