Children who have deficient executive skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments and forget to hand in homework. They make careless mistakes, put off work until th... more »e last minute and have no sense of time urgency. Workspaces are disorganized and teachers often refer to their backpacks or lockers as black holes. Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Dr. Dawson, co-author of the best-selling books Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, 2nd Ed. (Guilford, 2010), Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009) and Smart but Scattered Teens (Guilford, 2013), uses case examples along with interactive discussion to demonstrate how the executive skills manifest in daily home and school activities. Learn how to assess these skills and take home evidence-based strategies to help children and adolescents overcome executive skills weaknesses.
End this seminar recording with a set of tools that includes strategies for task/environmental modifications, skill development through cognitive/behavioral techniques and creation of incentive systems.
Objectives
-Assess the relationship between the executive skills and brain development/ function.
-Communicate how executive skills emerge throughout childhood and adolescence.
-Critique assessment tools used to identify executive dysfunction.
-Determine how executive skills impact performance and daily living at home and school.
-Utilize strategies to modify the environment to reduce the impact of weak executive skills.
-Develop tools that improve specific executive skill deficits in the context of home or school performance expectations.
-Design intervention strategies tailored to the needs of individual children and adolescents.
Outline
-Executive Skills
-Assessment of Executive Skills
-Intervention Strategies
-Keys to Effective Intervention Design
-Coaching: An Effective Strategy for Building Executive Skills« less
