Executive Skills In Children And Adolescents

Book Cover, Executive Skills In Children And Adolescents

Concise and practitioner friendly, this 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.

© 2010 Dawson, Peg & Guare, Richard
Audience: Parent, Professional
ISBN: 9781572309289
Language: Eng

“Human beings have a built-in capacity to meet challenges and accomplish goals through the use of high-level cognitive functions called executive skills.”