The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Executive Functioning Disorder: Strategies to Help Your Child Achieve the Time-Management Skills, Focus

The vital skills children need to achieve their full potential

Being organized. Staying focused. Controlling impulses and emotions.

These are some of the basic executive functioning (EF) skills children need to function and succeed as they grow. But what can you do if your child is struggling with one or all of these skills? With this hands-on guide, you'll learn what EF difficulties look like and how you can help your child overcome these challenges. Psychologist Rebecca Branstetter teaches you how to help improve the executive functions, including:

• Task initiation
• Response inhibition
• Focus
• Time management
• Working memory
• Flexibility
• Self-regulation
• Completing tasks
• Organization

With checklists to help enforce skills and improve organization, The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Executive Functioning Disorder is your step-by-step handbook for helping your child concentrate, learn, and thrive

Author: Rebecca Branstetter
Publisher: Everything
Published: 12/06/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.21h x 7.98w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781440566851
ISBN10: 1440566852
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Learning Disabilities
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | General

About the Author

Rebecca Branstetter, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a school psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Branstetter assesses and counsels children and adolescents with learning and emotional challenges in public schools and in private practice. Branstetter is the author of the popular blog "Notes from the School Psychologist" (www.studentsgrow.blogspot.com).