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Peg Dawson – Smart But Scattered, Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School
Proven Strategies to Boost Any Child’s Ability to…
Get organized
Resist impulses
Stay focused
Use time wisely
Plan ahead
Manage emotions
Persist with tasks
Improve memory
Featuring Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP, the leading expert in executive dysfunction assessment and intervention strategies co-author of the best-selling books, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, 2nd Ed. and Smart but Scattered
Children who have deficient executive skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments and forget to hand in homework. They make careless mistakes, put off work until the last minute and have no sense of time urgency. Workspaces are disorganized and teachers often refer to their backpacks or lockers as “black holes.” Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Dr. Dawson, co-author of the best-selling books Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, 2nd Ed. (Guilford, 2010) and Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009), uses case examples along with interactive discussion to demonstrate how the executive skills manifest in daily home and school activities. Learn how to assess these skills and take home evidence-based strategies to help children and adolescents overcome executive skills weaknesses.
Leave this seminar with a set of tools that includes strategies for task/environmental modifications, skill development through cognitive/behavioral techniques and creation of incentive systems. You will be able to give teachers and parents a means for developing and improving the following:
organization
time management
impulse control
goal-directed persistence
executive skills critical for independent functioning
Assess the relationship between the executive skills and brain development/ function.
Communicate how executive skills emerge throughout childhood and adolescence.
Critique assessment tools used to identify executive dysfunction.
Determine how executive skills impact performance and daily living at home and school.
Utilize strategies to modify the environment to reduce the impact of weak executive skills.
Develop tools that improve specific executive skill deficits in the context of home or school performance expectations.
Design intervention strategies tailored to the needs of individual children and adolescents.
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Executive Skills
Underlying theory
Executive skills in the context of brain function and child development
Assessment of Executive Skills
Parent/teacher/student interviews
Behavior rating scales
Observations
Informal assessment
Formal assessment
Intervention Strategies
Environmental modifications to reduce the impact of weak executive skills
Teaching strategies to help children develop/improve executive functioning
Using incentives to help practice or use skills that are difficult
Keys to Effective Intervention Design
Match the child’s developmental level
Use the child’s innate drive for mastery and control
Begin with environmental modifications
Effortful tasks and ways to make them less difficult
Use incentives to augment instruction
Provide the minimum support necessary
Apply supports and interventions until the child achieves mastery or success
Gradually fade supports, supervision and incentives
Coaching: An Effective Strategy for Building Executive Skills
Description of 2-stage process
Coaching with younger children
Clinical case examples
Research studies supporting the efficacy of coaching
