Peg Dawson – Smart But Scattered

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 Peg Dawson – Smart But Scattered

• Executive Skills
  • Theory underpinning
  • Executive skills within the context of brain function, child development and brain function
• Assessment of executive skills
  • Parent/teacher/student interviews
  • Scales of behavior rating
  • Observations
  • Informal assessment
  • Formal assessment
• Intervention Strategies
  • Environment modifications can be made to lessen the negative impact of low executive skills
  • Strategies to teach children how to improve their executive functioning
  • Use incentives to encourage people to practice or use difficult skills
• Keys to Effective Intervention Design
  • Match the child’s developmental level
  • Use the child’s innate drive for mastery and control
  • Start with environmental modifications
  • You can make your tasks easier by using efficient methods
  • Incentives can be used to enhance instruction
  • Offer the minimum amount of support
  • Supports and interventions should be provided until the child achieves mastery of or success.
  • Gradually, support, supervision and incentives will diminish
• Coaching: An effective strategy for building executive skills
  • Description of 2-Stage process
  • Coaching younger children
  • Case studies from clinical practice
  • Studies supporting the effectiveness of coaching

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Proven Strategies to Boost Any Child’s Ability to…

• Get organized
• Resist all temptations
• Keep your eyes on the prize
• Time is precious.
• Make a plan.
• Control your emotions
• Keep at it!
• Enhance memory

You can find it here Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP, The leading expert in executive dysfunction assessment, intervention strategies and co-Author of the best-Books being sold Executive skills for children and adolescents, 2nd Ed. And Smart But Scattered

Children with poor executive skills have trouble starting tasks, are easily distracted, lose paper or assignments, and forget to turn in homework. They make bad decisions, delay work until the very last minute, and don’t feel like they have any urgency. They are often disorganized in their work areas and teachers frequently refer to their lockers or backpacks. “black holes.” These children are often considered chronic underachievers. They are at higher risk for academic and emotional failure.

Dr. DawsonCo-Author of the best-Selling books Executive skills for children and adolescents, 2nd Ed. (Guilford 2010) Smart But Scattered Guilford, 2009) uses case examples and interactive discussion to show how executive skills are applied in everyday life at school and home. Find out how to evaluate these skills and bring home evidence-Strategies that are based on executive skills to aid children and teens overcome their weaknesses.

End this seminar recording with a set of tools that includes strategies for task/environmental modifications, skill development through cognitive/behavioral techniques and creation of incentive systems. Teachers and parents will have the ability to use these tools to help them develop and improve their skills.

• Organisation
• Time management
• Impulse control
• Goal-Directed persistence
• For independent functioning, executive skills are crucial