Cognitive challenges refer to difficulties in mental processes like thinking, memory, learning, and decision-making. While cognitive challenges are difficult to physically see, one’s daily life can be greatly impacted.
Cognitive challenges can include:
- Increased time in completing activities and responses in conversation
- Difficulty understanding what is being said (verbal or written)
- Difficulty expressing thoughts
- Being forgetful and misplacing items
- Difficulty with newly learned information (ex: rules, schedule, directions of task)
- Trouble with concentrating and appearing distracted as though he/she is not listening
- Being inflexible
- Becoming frustrated easily
- Being impulsive
