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Today, we’re launching our new game Entangled Ropes, designed to help children develop spatial visualization skills. What does the activity consist of? In Entangled Ropes, children are asked to untangle a set of ropes by moving their endpoints—represented by buttons—until none of the ropes cross each other. Once all the ropes are properly untangled, they …
Working memory is a core executive function that allows information to be temporarily held in the mind and processed during a limited period of time. It has been proven to be significant for daily functioning, such as sustaining attention in daily tasks and academic performance. Approximately 10% of the population has working memory deficits. People …
More than 7 million students, or about 15% of those ages 3 to 21, received special education services in the 2020-21 school year under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), according to the National Center for Education Statistics. To ensure the quality of special education services and meet the many needs in their classrooms, …
Today we present an activity to work on emotions with children! Working on emotions and moods is fundamental for everyone and should be cultivated from childhood. What are they feeling? is a perfect worksheet for this. What does it consist of? Children will have to identify what kind of feeling the person shown in the picture has and analyze which …
We continue working on expanding our social cognition materials. In this case we have developed a social cognition worksheet to help children and teenagers behave correctly: What is better to do? What does it consist of? It consists of analyzing a situation and seeing what would be the right way to behave in it. Life is full of choices, …
This week we publish a new activity for adults thanks to the suggestion of one of our clients who works at a Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center. It is called Sticky Notes in Order, an activity to work episodic memory. “We do this activity manually with actual sticky notes, but we think it could be more …
Alzheimer’s disease is relentless. It progresses steadily while we are waiting for a miracle drug to get us out of this nightmare. While we want to remain optimistic, such magic pills may not reach the market for years to come, and the current medication leaves most people unsatisfied. What should we do? Sit back and do …
As we promised, today we are sharing some activities to improve executive functions.
