Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions - Softcover

Paula Moraine

 
9781849058841: Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1849058849 ISBN 13: 9781849058841
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Student-centred approach to develop executive functions, including attention, memory, organization, and initiative

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About the Author

Paula Moraine, M.Ed. works in private practice in Bel Air, Maryland, as a tutor, coach, mentor, and educational consultant. She offers individual sessions, professional development and lectures widely in the USA and in Europe. Paula is the author of Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions: The Attention Fix and Autism and Everyday Executive Function: A Strengths-Based Approach for Improving Attention, Memory, Organization and Flexibility.

From the Back Cover

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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Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1849058849
ISBN 13 
9781849058841
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208