
Executive Functioning
Executive functioning skills encompass the management (regulation, control) of cognitive processes including working memory, reasoning, task flexibility, and problem solving as well as planning and execution.
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A Practical Guide for Teachers of Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in Secondary Education
This book has all the essential guidance and tools that anyone working in education will need to help students on the autism spectrum perform to their best potential and stay organized and on track with their school work. The book also covers general obstacles including social situations, anxiety, mental health and the next steps after school.
$36.951 in stock
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A Week of Switching, Shifting, and Stretching
This picture book assists children on the autism spectrum, and any child for that matter, to improving their executive function skills. Specifically, children are guided to examine their black-and-white thinking in order to begin to think more flexibly.
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Autism and Everyday Executive Function – A Strengths-Based Approach for Improving Attention, Memory, Organization and Flexibility
Outlining eight ‘Autism Access Points’, this book is a helpful guide to understanding, accessing and strengthening executive function skills in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Supportive and user-friendly, the ideas in this book provide a roadmap to developing essential organisational and planning skills.
$36.951 in stock
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Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators
Students with weak Executive Function skills need strong support and specific strategies to help them learn in an efficient manner, demonstrate what they know, and manage the daily demands of school. This book shows teachers how to do exactly that, while also managing the ebb and flow of their broader classroom needs. From the author of the bestselling parenting book “Late, Lost, and Unprepared”, comes a compilation of the most practical tools and strategies, designed to be equally useful for children with EF problems as well as all other students in the general education classroom.
$35.951 in stock
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Calm, Alert and Learning – Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation
Recent research tells us that one of the keys to student success is self-regulation – the ability to monitor and modify emotions, to focus or shift attention, to control impulses, to tolerate frustration or delay gratification.
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Executive Function “Dysfunction” – Strategies for Educators and Parents
The author describes the cognitive processes that make up the executive functions, including attention, behavioral inhibition, theory of mind, organizational skills, time management, planning, decision-making, and self-talk. Using real examples, she describes how difficulties in each of these areas may manifest, and offers practical hints, tips, and accommodations for supporting children both in and out of school.
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Get Organized Without Losing It – Revised and Updated Edition
Get Organized Without Losing It provides friendly, entertaining help for kids who want to manage their tasks, time, and stuff—without going overboard or being totally obsessed.
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Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions: The Attention Fix
This book presents an innovative model for strengthening and developing executive function in any student, including those with attention, memory, organization, planning, inhibition, initiative, and flexibility difficulties. It provides guidance on how to support each student’s evolving executive function, and how to encourage those who are ready to develop self-advocacy and become more responsible for the development of his or her own executive function skills.
$37.951 in stock
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How Can I Remember All That? Simple Stuff to Improve Your Working Memory
A child-friendly illustrated guide to what working memory is, what it feels like to have problems with your working memory, and what you can do about it. Offering easy to follow tips and strategies, this is the go-to book for kids aged 7+ to read with their parents or teachers, and includes a note for adults on testing for working memory issues.
$22.953 in stock
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Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents’ Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful. Children with weak executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework but forget to turn it in, wait until the last minute…
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My Day is Ruined! A Story Teaching Flexible Thinking
Kids who have trouble adjusting to the unexpected and tend to overreact can learn four steps for flexible thinking. Learning how to react appropriately to challenging situations is an important executive function skill.
$16.952 in stock
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Organizing the Disorganized Child – Simple Strategies to Succeed in School
This book finally answers the parents? question, “How can I help my child get organized without waging a battle?” This essential toolkit for parents and educators factors organizational styles into the equation, and offers effective strategies that deliver amazing long-term results.
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Self Regulation in the Classroom – Helping Students Learn How to Learn
To succeed in school, students need more than subject area knowledge—they must learn how to learn. Self-regulation, an executive functioning skill, describes the ways that students focus attention on achieving success. Self-regulated learners find personal value in learning, develop effective study habits, welcome challenges, seek help, and use failure as a learning tool.
$57.99