Brain fitness
Subtitle: an instructor's manual of 150 exercises for people with low to high cognitive function
By: by Suzanne Fitzsimmons
Publisher: Venture Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: State College, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781892132765
Subjects: Thought and thinking; Problems, exercises; Mental efficiency; Recreational therapy; Psychological recreations; Cognitive learning
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Greetings --; title: Exercise 1 : Your name --; title: Exercise 2 : Naming participants --; title: Exercise 3: Association --; title: Exercise 4 : How I feel! --; title: Getting the body ready --; title: Exercise 5 : Deep breathing --; title: Exercise 6 : Muscle relaxation --; title: Easy warm-ups --; title: Exercise 7 : Math --; title: Exercise 8 : Language --; title: Exercise 9 : Proverbs --; title: Exercise 10 : Familiar verses --; title: Exercise 11 : Memory --; title: Abstraction --; title: Exercise 12 : Abstraction picture --; title: Exercise 13 : Idioms --; title: Exercise 14 : If you were a --; title: Exercise 15 : Choices --; title: Exercise 16 : Ink spots --; title: Exercise 17: Expressions --; title: Exercise 18 : List challenge --; title: Exercise 19 : Interpreting metaphors --; title: Exercise 20 : Title this --; title: Exercise 21 : Twenty questions --; title: Body awareness, motor function, and coordination --; title: Exercise 22 : Figure 8s --; title: Exercise 23 : Lefts and rights --; title: Exercise 24 : Rub your stomach and pat your head --; title: Exercise 25 : Making circles --; title: Exercise 26 : Jacks --; title: Exercise 27 : Pick-up sticks --; title: Exercise 28 : Toothpicks --; title: Exercise 29 : Chopsticks --; title: Exercise 30 : Clothespins and spoons --; title: Exercise 31 : Drum those fingers --; title: Exercise 32 : Fancy feet --; title: Exercise 33 : Rubber balls --; title: Exercise 34 : Finger math --; title: Exercise 35 : Finger pantomiming --; title: Exercise 36 : Kinesthetic sense 1 --; title: Exercise 37 : Kinesthetic sense 2 --; title: Exercise 38 : Kinesthetic sense 3 --; title: Exercise 39 : Kinesthetic sense 4 --; title: Exercise 40 : Writing your name --; title: Exercise 41 : A cut up --; title: Exercise 42 : Challenging puzzles and objects --; title: Crossing the midline --; title: Exercise 43 : Hand to knee --; title: Exercise 44 : Crossover with a ball --; title: Exercise 45 : Crossover with a ball in the air --; title: Exercise 46 : Juggling balls --; title: Exercise 47 : Juggles scarves --; title: Exercise 48 : Pancake clap --; title: Executive functioning --; title: Exercise 49 : Be the teacher --; title: Exercise 50 : Using a calculator --; title: Exercise 51 : Calculating heartbeats --; title: Exercise 52 : Calendar --; title: Exercise 53 : The dot game --; title: Exercise 54 : Trail making (letters) --; title: Exercise 55 : Trail making (numbers) --; title: Exercise 56 : Trail making (mixed) --; title: Exercise 58 : Getting to know you --; title: Exercise 59 : Map work 1 --; title: Exercise 60 : Map work 2 --; title: Exercise 61 : Calculations --; title: Exercise 62 : Leaving a tip --; title: Exercise 63 : Using money --; title: Exercise 64 : Payday! --; title: Exercise 65 : Origami fan --; title: Exercise 66 : Origami hat --; title: Exercise 67 : Origami cup --; title: Exercise 68 : Origami plane --; title: Exercise 69 : Spring flowers --; title: Exercise 70 : What time is it? --; title: Exercise 71 : Triangles --; title: Exercise 72 : Deserted island --; title: Language and communication --; title: Exercise 73 : Alpha bravo code --; title: Exercise 74: Amazing reading --; title: Exercise 75 : Interpretation : artwork --; title: Exercise 76 : Betty, Popeye, and the wolf --; title: Exercise 77 : Charades --; title: Exercise 78 : More charades --; title: Exercise 79 : Describe someone --; title: Exercise 80 : Hangman --; title: Exercise 81 : Love poem --; title: Exercise 82 : Spring poem --; title: Exercise 83 : Quiet pantomime --; title: Exercise 84 : Reading out loud --; title: Exercise 85 : Reading upside down --; title: Exercise 86 : Tongue twisters --; title: Exercise 87 : Sentence jumble --; title: Exercise 88 : Sign language --; title: Exercise 89 : Word association --; title: Exercise 90 : Word chart --; title: Exercise 91 : Strange words --; title: Exercise 92 : Word fun --; title: Memory --; title: Exercise 93 : Advertising slogans --; title: Exercise 94 : Clutter --; title: Exercise 95 : True or false --; title: Exercise 96 : Cooking metaphors --; title: Exercise 97 : Have you ever? --; title: Exercise 98 : What do you think? --; title: Exercise 99 : Do you remember? --; title: Exercise 100 : Floor plan --; title: Exercise 101 : Lists --; title: Exercise 102 : Naming items --; title: Exercise 103 : Observation and memory --; title: Exercise 104 : Simple math --; title: Exercise 105 : House map --; title: Exercise 106 : Tray of items --; title: Exercise 107 : The alphabet --; title: Exercise 108 : Common objects --; title: Exercise 109 : Left-brain, right-brain self-assessment --; title: Recognition --; title: Exercise 110: Concentration --; title: Exercise 111 : Draw your face --; title: Exercise 112 : Famous faces --; title: Exercise 113 : Upside down face --; title: Exercise 114 : Matching faces --; title: Exercise 115 : Scavenger hunt --; title: Exercise 116 : Reverse scavenger hunt --; title: Sensory --; title: Exercise 117 : Describing what you touch --; title: Exercise 118: It's in the bag 1 --; title: Exercise 119 : It's in the bag 2 --; title: Exercise 120 : Draw what you hear --; title: Exercise 121 : Name that tune --; title: Exercise 122 : Sound identification 1 --; title: Exercise 123 : Sound identification 2 --; title: Exercise 124 : Making sound effects --; title: Exercise 125 : Draw what you see --; title: Exercise 126 : How much weight? --; title: Exercise 127 : Describing smells --; title: Exercise 128 : Smell memory --; title: Exercise 129 : Identifying smells --; title: Exercise 130 : Identifying soft foods --; title: Exercise 131 : Identifying tastes --; title: Exercise 132 : Sweet & salty --; title: Exercise 133 : Identifying basic tastes --; title: Exercise 134 : Identifying complex tastes --; title: Exercise 135 : Taste comparisons --; title: Exercise 136 : Tasting pickles --; title: Visual spatial --; title: Exercise 137 : Cats and kids --; title: Exercise 138 : Copy the design --; title: Exercise 139 : Creative construction --; title: Exercise 140 : Follow the leader --; title: Exercise 141 : Guess the height --; title: Exercise 142 : Guess the length --; title: Exercise 143 : Guess the size --; title: Exercise 144 : Map drawing --; title: Exercise 145 : The right family --; title: Exercise 146 : Make a square --; title: Exercise 147 : Spatial drawing --; title: Exercise 148 : Drawing a star --; title: Exercise 149 : Tangram --; title: Exercise 150 : Writing in the dark.