HUGE List of Therapy Task Ideas for
Adult Speech Therapy
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ATTENTION
TASK IDEAS:
1. Following 1, 2, 3+ step conditional directions
2. Card sort (n-back, higher/lower, sort by suit, sort by color, #)
3. Grocery list recall (repeat 2, 3, 4, 5+ item grocery lists back after clinician)
4. Word list recall (repeat 2, 3, 4, 5+ functional words/names back after clinician)
a. TX team (MD, PT, OT, ST, Nurse)
b. Family members names
c. medications
d. Cities
e. States
f. ADL items
5. Sentence length recall (repeat 4, 5, 6+ word length sentences back after clinician)
6. Sentence length recall (answering comprehension questions after hearing passages from
newspaper or facility newsletter)
7. Mental manipulation (repeat 2, 3, 4, 5+ words/numbers in reverse order back after clinician)
8. iPad: matching games
9. Auditory Selective Letter Attention Lists (raise/tap hand for specific letter or number in long
sequence)
10. Mazes and Simple Trailmaking
11. Divergent Thinking and Attention Processing lists (names, words beginning w/ alphabet,
word fluency)
TASK IDEAS: Scanning & Visual Perception for (L) Neglect
1. Scanning hospital literature, magazines and newspapers (classified, comics, articles, weather
report)
2. Scanning for environmental signs in hospital
3. Scanning hospital environment (nurses station, room numbers, lobby, cafeteria, vending
machine, grocery)
4. Scanning vending machine for vending machine i-spy
5. Scanning scrapbook or memory book
6. Matching visual patterns with ADL item sequences (will need multiples of each item in advance)
7. Trailmaking tasks (single & alternative)
8. Word searches
9. Symbol decoding
10. Visual letter cancellation tasks
11. Mazes
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REASONING/ PROBLEM SOLVING
TASK IDEAS: Simple Daily routines:
*hydration/nutrition, grooming, dressing, call light function/safety, toileting, bathing*
1. Verbal Sequencing: 2, 3, 4+ step ADL sequencing
2. Photo Sequencing: 2, 3, 4+ step ADL picture cards
3. Transfer Sequencing: bed, wheelchair, toilet
4. Photo safety cards: ID, state consequence, and verbalize x1-2 solutions in presented safety
pictures
5. Verbal safety problem solving: when verbally presented with a problem, patient will…
a. ID problem
b. predict outcomes & consequences of hypothetical problems
c. list possible solutions to or causes of problems
6. Functional Divergent Listing: brainstorming and generating ideas (tell me 3 ways to…, tell me
2 solutions to …, think of 5 ways to…)
7. Insight: insight and awareness questions/discussion related to current limitations
8. Safety Awareness
a. verbal sequencing transfers: bed, wheelchair, toilet
b. verbalize and demo call light function
c. ID 3 situations that require call light usage
d. demo insight into current physical limitations
e. ID unsafe situations in hypothetical situations in discharge environment
TASK IDEAS: Complex routines:
*financial mgmt., medication mgmt, meal mgmt. & prep, caregiving, driving, time management*
1. Medication Management:
a. verbalize or review list of current meds
b. pillbox sort according to instructions
c. read medication labels
d. verbal problem solving related to special instructions and precautions of
medications
e. ID pill sort errors and calculate # of pills per day
f. medication related word problems
2. Money
a. count money
b. write a check
c. check balance
d. calculations of totals and change
e. couponing
f. money related word problems
3. Time
a. reading time on clocks
b. filling in time on worksheet clocks
c. filling in missing numbers on worksheet clocks
d. calculating time according to therapy schedule
e. calendar and scheduling tasks
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REASONING/PROBLEM SOLVING
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4. Meal management
a. read recipes
b. meal planning for 2 weeks of dinners to facilitate easier transition home after
discharge
c. create grocery list for return home after facility discharge – anticipate new needs
that will need to be purchased
5. Scheduling and Planning Tasks
a. calendar scheduling tasks
6. Ozark speech pathologist discharging home activity
7. Verbal reasoning
TASK IDEAS: Executive Functioning:
1. Self Awareness
a. identify tasks that are easy or difficult for him/her
b. discuss current limitations and compensations that can be applied
2. Goal setting
a. have the patient predict HOW they will perform on a given task
b. have the patient determine how they DID perform afterward (scale of 1-10 or
percentage)
3. Planning
a. plan compensations and strategies
b. predict what items, skills and materials will be needed for task
c. plan order of events for task completion
4. Organizing
a. organize and sequence task ahead of time
b. narrate sequence and adjust plan as needed
5. Self-initiating
a. without prompting from clinician patient will initiate and carryout task
6. Self-monitoring & self evaluating
a. discuss difficulties, problems and errors that arose during task
b. discuss helpful strategies and compensations
c. create a plan for better task execution for next time
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ORIENTATION & RECENT DAILY MEMORY
TASK IDEAS:
1. (person) name, city of residence, family & spouse names, phone #, address, date of birth, age
2. (place, time) hospital name, calendar with admission date and current dates marked
3. (time) seasonal concepts: discuss events, weather, etc. associated with this season of the year
4. (place, situation) orientation sheet with location, situation & room # and treatment staff
5. (place, situation, time) daily therapy schedule – write out and review sequence of daily activities
6. (place) route finding to key locations (room, cafeteria, therapy gym, nurses station)
7. (place) map reading for region, county, city, distance of facility to home, church, etc. (Google Maps)
SHORT TERM MEMORY
*TASKS COMPLETED WITH USE OF TRAINED INTERNAL/EXTERNAL STRATEGIES*
TASK IDEAS:
1. Delayed recall for orientation (place, current situation / reason for hospitalization, etc.)
2. Delayed recall for therapy schedule appointments
3. Telephone message recall
4. Conversation recall (mock conversations with doctor, nurse, etc. and summarize key points)
5. Word list and grocery list recall
6. Sentence length recall
7. Picture scene or hospital scene recall
8. Pertinent details form paragraph recall
9. Newspaper article or video with main idea recall (5 W’s)
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COMPREHENSION
TASK IDEAS:
1. Basic yes/no questions (basic needs, immediate environment, personal information)
2. Simple yes/no questions (general information, safety, daily events, simple ADLs, etc.)
3. Complex yes/no questions (abstract, spatial, conditional, regarding I-ADLs)
4. Object ID (field of 2-5): clothing, room objects, toiletries, table top items, etc.
5. Body part ID
6. Following directions (basic) 1-2 directions
7. Following directions (simple) 1-3 directions
8. Following directions (complex) 4-5 directions
9. Identify objects, places and people in immediate environment/visual field by name, function
or other descriptive features
10. Identify objects, places and people (general knowledge) by name, function or other
descriptive features
11. Identify actions in pictures, therapy gym, hospital lobby
12. Sentence-length comprehension with comprehension questions (yes/no, open-ended)
13. Listen to paragraph length stories and newspaper articles w/ comprehension questions (yes/no,
open-ended)
14. Listening for critical information related to medical condition, daily routines or patient-care
EXPRESSION
TASK IDEAS: Gestural:
1. Daily Gestures:
2. P.A.C.E. (Promoting Aphasics Communication Effectiveness)
TASK IDEAS: Sound/Word level:
1. Automatic Sequences: Rote Tasks (#1-20, DOW, MOY, Singing, personal information)
2. Repetition: Sound and oral posture repetition
3. Repetition: Word repetition (CV/VC, CVC 1 syllable, CVCV 2 syllable, 3 syllable, 4+ syllable)
4. Repetition: Apraxia word to phrase ladders
5. Minimal Pairs
6. Naming: confrontational naming of objects and people in immediate environment
7. Naming: confrontational naming of objects in pictures
8. Word Level: Phrase completion
9. Word Level: Responsive naming
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EXPRESSION
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TASK IDEAS: Phrase- Simple Sentence Level:
1. Naming: confrontational naming of ADL objects, family/people, places
2. Naming: based on verbal description
3. Naming: associative and part to whole
4. P.A.C.E.: for gestures, words and phrases to describe object function
5. Response Elaboration Training for phrase building (during barrier tasks, verb card
description, apps)
6. Semantic Feature Analysis
7. VNeST (Verb Network Strengthening Treatment)
8. WH Questions: Responding to open-ended questions with and without carrier phrases
9. Word Ladders (word-phrase length building)
10. Functional phrase creation and repetition (2-3 word phrase, 3-4 word phrase)
11. Sentence repetition
12. Divergent Naming (simple categories)
13. Picture Description Tasks/ Barrier Tasks
a. Picture scenes, landscapes, community places, magazine pictures, newspaper
pictures
14. Formulate sentences using given words & with predetermined # of words to ^ utterance
length
15. Script Training
TASK IDEAS: Simple Sentence to Conversational Level:
1. Story retell tasks
2. Story creation tasks (clinician provides a lead-in sentence and patient completes the story
creatively)
3. Conversational-based reminiscence (describing memories of favorite vacations, milestones,
work history, etc.)
4. Conversation cards
5. Picture Description Tasks/ Barrier Tasks
a. Picture scenes, landscapes, community places, magazine pictures, newspaper
pictures
6. Formulate sentences using given words & with predetermined # of words to ^ utterance
length
7. Role-play tasks (restaurant menu task, ordering a pizza, requesting pain meds, etc.)
8. Compare/Contrast by describing similarities and differences
9. ADL sequencing
10. Providing verbal descriptions (holidays, memories, special events and milestones)
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