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Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School

Featuring Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP

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Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School

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• Resist impulses

• Stay focused

• Use time wisely

• Plan ahead

• Manage emotions

• Persist with tasks

• Improve memory

Featuring Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP

• the leading expert in executive dysfunction assessment and intervention strategies

• co-author of the best-selling books, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, 2nd Ed. , Smart but Scattered and Smart but Scattered Teens

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Executive SkillsUnderlying theory

Executive skills in the context of brain function and child development

Assessment of Executive SkillsParent/teacher/student interviews

Behavior rating scales

Observations

Informal assessment

formal assessment

Intervention StrategiesEnvironmental modifications to reduce the impact of weak executive skills

teaching strategies to help children develop/improve executive functioning

Using incentives to help practice or use skills that are difficult

Keys to Effective Intervention Design

match the child’s developmental level

Use the child’s innate drive for mastery and control

Begin with environmental modifications

Effortful tasks and ways to make them less difficult

Use incentives to augment instruction

Provide the minimum support necessary

apply supports and interventions until the child achieves mastery or success

Gradually fade supports, supervision and incentives

Coaching: An Effective Strategy for Building Executive Skills

description of 2-stage process

Coaching with younger children

Clinical case examples

research studies supporting the efficacy of coaching

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Objectives1 describe the relationship between the executive skills and brain development/ function.

2 Explain how executive skills emerge throughout childhood and adolescence.

3 Summarize assessment tools used to identify executive dysfunction.

4 Identify how executive skills impact performance and daily living at home and school.

5 Utilize strategies to modify the environment to reduce the impact of weak executive skills.

6 develop tools that improve specific executive skill deficits in the context of home or school performance expectations.

7 design intervention strategies tailored to the needs of individual children and adolescents.

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Executive Skills in Children & Adolescents, 2nd Editionby Peg Dawson, ed.D., Your Presenter and richard guare, Ph.D.Concise and practitioner friendly, this bestselling guide has helped put executive skills on the map for school-based clinicians and educators. the book explains how these critical cognitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children’s behavior and school performance. Provided are step-by-step guidelines and many practical tools to promote executive skill development by implementing environmental modifications, individualized instruction, coaching, and whole-class interventions. In a large-size format with convenient lay-flat binding, the book includes more than two dozen reproducible assessment tools, checklists, and planning sheets.

Smart But Scattered Teens: The “Executive Skills” Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential by Peg Dawson, ed.D., Your Presenter and richard guare, Ph.D., D-bcbA many tens of thousands of parents have used the bestselling Smart but Scattered to teach young kids vital skills for living up to their potential. Now drs. richard Guare and Peg dawson apply their groundbreaking approach to the unique challenges of adolescence. despite high intelligence, teens with executive skills deficits can be frustratingly disorganized, distractible, forgetful, and moody—leaving worried parents torn between micromanaging and throwing up their hands. this positive guide gives parents step-by-step strategies for

promoting teens’ independence by helping them get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses. drs. Guare and dawson—joined by Colin Guare, a young adult who has successfully faced these issues himself—present proven tools, vivid stories, and insightful tips for reducing parent–teen conflicts.

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from executive skills experts Peg dawson and richard Guare, this large-format academic planner is specially designed for students in grades 6-12. It provides a system for keeping track of assignments and due dates while developing the crucial executive skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. Students are guided to build a daily study plan, manage their time, set short- and long-term goals, study for tests, and record their successes. they also get tools for evaluating their own executive skills in order to target their weaknesses and capitalize on strengths.

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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 the 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. leave this seminar with a set of tools that includes strategies for task/environmental modifications, skill development through cognitive/behavioral techniques and creation of incentive systems. You will be able to give teachers and parents a means for developing and improving the following:

• Organization• time management• Impulse control

Dr. Dawson developed the most widely used assessment and intervention strategies for executive skill deficits in children and adolescents.

Smart but ScatteredExecutive Dysfunction at Home and at School

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Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP is a school psychologist and for nearly 20 years has worked at the Center for learning and attention disorders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she specializes in the assessment of children and adults with learning and attention disorders. She is co-author of the best-selling books on executive dysfunction, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: 2nd Edition (Guilford, 2010), Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009) and Smart but Scattered Teens (Guilford, 2013).Peg is a past editor of Communiqué, the newsletter of the National association of School Psychologists, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, including retention, ability grouping, reading disorders, attention disorders, the sleep problems of adolescents, the use of interviews in the assessment process and homework. Peg has many years of organizational experience at the state, national and international levels and served in many capacities, including president of the New Hampshire association of School Psychologists, the National association of School Psychologists (NaSP) and the International School Psychology association. She has also participated in many of NaSP’s leadership initiatives, including the futures Conference and the development of both the second and third Blueprint for the training and Practice of School Psychology. She is the 2006 recipient of NaSP’s lifetime achievement award. Peg received her doctorate in school/child clinical psychology from the University of Virginia.Speaker disclosures:

financial: margaret (Peg) dawson is an author for Guilford Press and receives royalties. She is an author for amacon publishers and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: margaret (Peg) dawson has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

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