F.A.S.T Activity Guide: Writing & Sending Emails

Communication via email has become a huge part of life. However, individuals with cognitive or communication deficits may have a hard time not only WRITING emails, but also correctly and efficiently SENDING emails.

Use this "Writing & Sending Emails" F.A.S.T. Activity Guide to target email writing with patients. Have patients use a computer/phone/tablet to compose emails and send them to a specific email account (yours). Included in this Activity Guide:

• (8) Email Writing Prompts- scenarios which require patients to WRITE and SEND a detailed email
• A list of 15 things to consider regarding a patient’s attention, memory, and word finding during task
• A 15-item Skills Checklist to assess patient performance from start to finish

NOTES:

• This activity can be used in session or as a series of homework assignments.
• Consider pairing this activity with a metacognitive tool such as the "Goal, Plan, Do, Review" Framework (available in digital download store). Such a tool can be great in assisting with planning, organizing, recognizing errors, predicting challenging, and self rating task performance.
• Allow this functional writing activity to be an opporunity in which you train patient on using helpful accessibiilty features or AI tools (spellcheck, speech to text, online paraphrasing tools, etc).