Speech-Language Pathologists and Happy Neuron Pro

The 2025 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention is just around the corner! Our team at HappyNeuron Pro is so excited to connect with therapists and professionals in attendance. As SLPs prepare to connect, learn, and explore new tools that elevate their practice, now is the perfect time to see how HappyNeuron Pro can complement your therapy sessions.

Whether you work in inpatient, outpatient, private practice, school setting, or anywhere in between, HappyNeuron Pro’s evidence-informed digital cognitive exercises are designed to help strengthen cognitive and language skills, all while keeping clients motivated and engaged.

Supporting Cognitive Deficits

Cognition and communication are deeply intertwined and complicated. Many SLPs see clients with conditions that affect both, such as stroke, TBI, concussion, or neurodegenerative disease. Addressing the cognitive deficits surrounding these diagnoses involves various treatment methods, frameworks, and creativity. HappyNeuron Pro offers structured cognitive exercises that target a variety of cognitive domains, including memory, attention, executive function, and processing speed; all key foundations for successful language rehabilitation.

SLPs can use HappyNeuron Pro to:

• Reinforce attention and working memory for clients who experience cognitive fatigue more easily
• Strengthen sequencing and organizational abilities for following multistep directions, such as for daily living skills
• Encourage carryover of compensatory strategies between cognitive and communication tasks
  

For example, HappyNeuron Pro’s cognitive exercise called Restaurant requires recalling who ordered what meal items. This involves memory and processing. Building on this activity, a therapist could integrate the exercise with verbal recall tasks, compensatory strategies, or a conversational role-play component.

Supporting Motor Speech and Language Development

While HappyNeuron Pro is primarily a cognitive tool, its interactive and language-rich environment can enhance verbal expression and reception, word retrieval, and comprehension. The platform’s exercises naturally engage clients in linguistic processing while reducing the monotony of drill work.

SLPs can integrate HappyNeuron Pro by:

• Using language-based games, such as our Seize the Keywords exercise, to practice processing and comprehension. In this activity, the client must recall the key elements of a passage to reconstruct it in an organized manner. Another example is the exercise “This Story is Full of Blanks,” where the client must fill in the blanks using a word bank to complete the text.
  
• Encouraging articulation carryover by having clients verbalize responses or read prompts aloud.
• Supporting receptive and expressive language through sequencing or categorization tasks.

Group Therapy and Concurrent Treatment

It can be a bit tricky to align multiple clients’ goals simultaneously during group sessions. Luckily, HappyNeuron Pro makes it easy to adapt activities for pairs or small groups.

• Use cooperative gameplay to promote social communication and turn-taking.
  
• Assign complementary tasks to support peer problem-solving and discussion.
  
• Run concurrent treatment: one client works on a digital task with HappyNeuron Pro while another engages in direct speech work, then switch.

For example: In a social skills group, use our I Remember You! exercise to support memory and name recall, then facilitate conversation practice around recalling the names of others in the group or names of familiar people, such as celebrities or historical figures.

Warm-Up and Cool-Down Activities

Cognitive warm-ups can help prime the brain for therapy, while cool-downs may help consolidate learning afterward. HappyNeuron Pro offers short, engaging activities that transition clients smoothly in and out of sessions.

• Warm-ups: quick exercises to stimulate attention and processing speed before motor speech or language tasks.
• Cool-downs: reflective or slower-paced tasks to reinforce self-awareness, regulation, and cognitive endurance.

🎉 See You at ASHA!

If you’re attending the ASHA Convention, stop by the HappyNeuron Pro booth to explore our exercises firsthand, get an in-person demo, and learn how SLPs across different settings are integrating digital cognitive tools into their practice.

Whether you’re helping clients regain communication after injury or supporting language development in children, HappyNeuron Pro gives you flexible, evidence-based activities that fit seamlessly into your therapeutic toolbox.

👉 Come see us at ASHA — try our 30-day free trial or schedule a demo online today!