Late, Lost, & Unprepared: Executive Function Struggles
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
10/23/24
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Does your child struggle with planning/organizing, time management, and impulse control? Join us for our interview with Dr. Joyce Cooper-Kahn, a clinical child psychologist who specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents with ADHD, executive functioning challenges, and other learning disabilities. She is the author of Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning.
In this episode, we cover:
- What is executive functioning?
- Example of executive functioning skills?
- What is it like for kids, youth, and adults who struggle with executive functioning?
- What is the experience of families with a child/youth with executive functioning difficulties?
- Why do some kids struggle with executive functioning? What other disabilities often occur with this deficit?
- At what age do we usually expect executive functioning skills to start developing?
- Who can diagnose an executive functioning disability, and why is it important to get a diagnosis?
- What can parents do to help kids improve their executive functioning skills or learn to live without them?
- Use real life to teach
- Teach rather than punish
- Collaborate with the child or youth
- Behavior modification
- Adjust expectations
- When should you allow your child to experience natural consequences for behavior?
- Practical tools for helping kids plan and organize.
- Practical tools for helping kids shift gears or handle transitions.
- Practical tools for helping kids with working memory challenges.
- Practical tools for helping kids control impulses.
Additional resources:
Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators
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