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• Archive: Proven Strategies to Boost Any Child’s Ability to...Get organizedResist impulsesStay focusedUse time wiselyPlan aheadManage emotionsPersist with tasksImprove memoryFeaturing 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 ScatteredChildren 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.
• (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.