Executive functioning training teaches students how to better plan and organize, sustain attention, complete tasks, manage emotions, problem-solve, control impulses and monitor one’s thoughts. Having executive dysfunction is actually quite common and does not require a diagnosis of ADHD, learning disab...
“Executive function” is one of those phrases that gets thrown around a lot in child development, but it can be a little confusing. Read on to find out exactly what it means, and discover the executive functioning skills you can expect from kids at different age levels. What is executive ...
Executive function skills are often impaired in children with a single diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and in children with a single diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Executive function skills are important, as they are necessary to complete a wide variety of...
However, the delay in EF may have consequences for overall cognitive and everyday functioning. The large variability in EF suggests that cognition should be assessed in all children with CP.doi:10.1007/s10882-017-9549-xKristine Stadskleiv
Executive Functioning Skills On this page, you will find a resource for those who are working with children or adults on executive functioning skills, as well as a guide to promoting each of these skill areas through activities.Executive functioning skills development begins at a very early age....
Executive functioning in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder. Child Neuropsychology. 2009;15(1):85-98.Favre, T., Hughes, C., Emslie, G., Stavinoha, P., Kennard, B., & Carmody, T. (2009). Executive functioning in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder. ...
Executive functioning (EF) has been linked to chronic disease risk in children. Health behaviors are thought to partially explain this association. The current cross-sectional study evaluated specific domains of EF and varied health behaviors in three pediatric life stages. Pediatric participants (early...
A cross-sectional study using 92 children aged 6 to 13 years investigated the dimensionality and the development of executive functioning. The measures were drawn from developmentally relevant conceptualizations of executive functioning and included a go/no-go task, a verbal fluency task, a continuous...
Homeschooling (and other external factors, such as COVID-19) can lead to the location of the majority of a child’s learning to be in the home. Some parents may be wondering, especially in situations such as the pandemic, how to be the best ‘teachers’ for their children. How do we...
For the ADHD groups, compared with parents, teachers rated children as having more problems in the majority of the scales. Parent and teacher perceptions of executive functioning in children with ADHD align with prior findings of executive deficits that have been documented on neuropsychological ...