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These fun, functional activities teach students to plan, execute, complete, and monitor tasks.
Children with adaptive and self-regulatory behavioral deficits may have impairments in executive functions. Executive Functions Training–Elementary develops cognitive abilities and behavior control with classroom-related activities for varying ability levels. The activities are organized into five skill areas:
- Working Memory: chunking and rehearsing, linking and associations, acronyms and silly sentences, paraphrasing, and visualizing
- Time Management: estimating time, planning for homework and long-term assignments, studying for tests
- Planning & Organization: brainstorming, organizing notes and information, reading with a purpose, writing efficiently
- Flexible Thinking: reorder sentence, rewrite sentences and paragraphs, homographs, intonation and stress
- Self-Monitoring: checking for mistakes, editing written work, identifying key words in directions, combining information
- Skills for Behavior–Doing: strategies for inhibition, emotional control, attention, and initiation
Much more than activities, this resource gives clinicians tools to measure and establish executive function skills. Each skill area contains:
- detailed teaching instructions
- activities organized into sub-skills
- exercises for varying ability levels
- goals
- teaching strategies
- a section review with guidelines for skill mastery
- extension activities
- parent strategies
- teacher strategies
The book has extra helps to engage students, professionals, and parents in the establishment of the new skills:
- Student Rating Scale
- Parent/Teacher Rating Scale
- Student Questionnaire
- Teacher Questionnaire
- Parent Questionnaire
- profile of strengths and weaknesses for each skill area
- activity logs
- visual organizers
- schedule planners
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