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What is Executive Function and Why Do We Need it?
What is Executive Function and Why Do We Need it?
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MIND MATTERS: Executive Functioning
MIND MATTERS: Executive Functioning
Dr. Laurie Cestnick, Harvard University / MIT
Executive Function: Your Brain's Control Center
Executive Function: Your Brain's Control Center
Executive functions are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. We can distinguish between three components: 1. Working memory, 2. Inhibitory control and 3. Cognitive flexibility. All 3 are interlinked and influence each other.
What Is Executive Function?
What Is Executive Function?
Executive functions are a set of skills that include organization, attention, and planning. This includes impulse control, emotional control, and working memory. Learn more about executive functioning and how you can help your child improve these skills. In this video, Stephanie Carlson, PhD, Director of Research, Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota, explains how executive functioning skills develop in kids
Suggested Websites for Students and Families.
Suggested Websites for Students and Families.
Harvard University
Centre on the Developing Child
Smart But Scattered Kids Website
Resources for Executive Functions
Executive Functioning
Suggested Readings for Students and Families.
Suggested Readings for Students and Families.
The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Executive Functioning Disorder, by: Rebecca Branstetter, Lisa Larsen, et al.
Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential, by: Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential, by: Richard Guare, Peg Dawson, et al.
I Can't Find My Whatchamacallit, by: Julia Cook and Michelle Hazelwood Hyde
Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning, by: Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Laurie Dietzel
Planning Isn't My Priority..: ... and Making Priorities Isn't in My Plans, by: Julia Cook and Michelle Hazelwood Hyde
Brain Hacks: Life-Changing Strategies to Improve Executive Functioning
by Lara Honos-Webb PhD, Rebecca Rogers, et al.
Suggested Activities for Students and Families.
Suggested Activities for Students and Families.
Six Super Skills for Executive Functioning: Tools to Help Teens Improve Focus, Stay Organized, and Reach Their Goals, by: Lara Honos-Webb and Neil D. Brown
Executive Functioning Workbook: Black and White Version, by: Melissa Mullin Ph.D. and Karen Fried Psy.D.
Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention, by: Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
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