Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions: The Attention Fix

This book presents an innovative model for supporting executive function in students with attention, memory, organization, planning, inhibition, initiative, and flexibility difficulties, including those with ADHD, ADD, autism spectrum disorders and related conditions. The author advocates a student-centred approach in which educators first explore 8 key 'ingredients' with the student: relationships; strengths and weaknesses; self-advocacy and responsibility; review and preview; motivation and incentive; synthesis and analysis; rhythm and routine; and practice and repetition. She provides a step-by-step explanation of how these 'ingredients' can then be used in different ways and in different combinations to successfully address particular areas of difficulty. The approach is clearly explained, and the book contains many useful examples, practical tips and strategies, suggested conversation starters, sample time management plans and other tools that can be adapted to meet the particular needs of individual students. Original and effective, the approach outlined in this book will be of interest to teachers and other professionals involved in supporting executive function in students of all ages, as well as parents and carers.

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• Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
• The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition: Write It Down, Get It Done
• The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens: Help for Unprepared, Late, and Scattered Teens
• Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential
• Overcoming Dyslexia
• Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words
• Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
• Understanding Girls with ADHD: How They Feel and Why They Do What They Do
• Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Essentials of Psychological Assessment)