Children with adaptive and self-regulatory behavioral deficits may have impairments in executive functions.  Executive Functions Training Elementary develops cognitive abilities and behavior control with classroom-related activities for varying ability levels.  The activities are organized into five skill areas:



Working Memory: chunking and rehearsing, linking and associations, acronyms and silly sentences, paraphrasing, and visualizingTime Management: estimating time, planning for homework and long-term assignments, studying for tests Planning & Organization: brainstorming, organizing notes and information, reading with a purpose, writing efficiently Flexible Thinking: reorder sentence, rewrite sentences and paragraphs, homographs, intonation and stress Self-Monitoring: checking for mistakes, editing written work, identifying key words in directions, combining information
Skills for Behavior–Doing: strategies for inhibition, emotional control, attention, and initiation



Much more than activities, this resource gives clinicians tools to measure and establish executive function skills.  Each skill area contains:

• detailed teaching instructions

• activities organized into sub-skills

• exercises for varying ability levels

• goals

• teaching strategies

• a section review with guidelines for skill mastery

• extension activities

• parent strategies

• teacher strategies

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Copy the student activity pages or print them from the FREE CD.  The book has extra helps to engage students, professionals, and parents in the establishment of the new skills:

• Student Rating Scale

• Parent/Teacher Rating Scale

• Student Questionnaire

• Teacher Questionnaire

• Parent Questionnaire

• profile of strengths and weaknesses for each skill area

• activity logs

• visual organizers

• schedule planners​
   

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Components
198-page book plus a CD of the reproducible pages, Rating Scales, Questionnaires, answer key