The everything parent's guide to children with executive functioning disorder
Subtitle: strategies to help your child achieve the time management skills, focus, and organization needed to succeed in school and life
By: Rebecca Branstetter, PhD
Series: Everything parent's guide series
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stroughton, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781440566851
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Self-control in children; Child development; Executive functions (Neuropsychology); Child psychology
Description: Learn what EF difficulties look like, and how you can help your child overcome these challenges. Branstetter teaches you how to help improve the executive functions, and includes checklists to help enforce skills and improve organization. This is your step-by-step handbook for helping your child concentrate, learn, and thrive!
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is executive functioning?; title: The?big 10? executive functions; title: How does executive functioning develop in children and adolescents?; title: Executive functioning disorders; title: Task initiation: taming your child?s procrastination monster; title: Response inhibition: teaching your child to control impulses; title: Focus; title: Time management: strengthening your child?s internal clock; title: Working memory; title: Flexibility: rolling with changes; title: Self-regulation: thinking about thinking; title: Emotional self-control; title: Task completion; title: Organization; title: Setting up your home environment to support executive functioning; title: Development; title: How to advocate for support for your child at school; title: Parenting children with executive functioning challenges; title: Manager or micromanager?; title: What if you also have executive functioning challenges?; title: Building resilience.