1. Executive Functions In Children and Teens
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2. Breakthrough Learning Solutions Atlanta, GA and Anniston, AL
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Breakthrough Learning Solutions
Atlanta, GA and Anniston, AL
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cluster of cognitive skills rooted in prefrontal structures of frontal lobe, including ability to anticipate consequences, generate novel ideas and solutions, initiate appropriate actions, monitor ongoing success or failure
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EF is your ability to have a plan and see the big picture of your life…..The ability to have a plan or a strategy.
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5. FUNDAMENTALLY a deficit in FUTURE-BASED thinking (Barkley)
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6. Highly Variable Between Settings and Situations
Amount of Self-Control
Interpersonal Demands (social)
Environment
Coding Systems (Reading? Math? Signs?)
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Includes:
Initiation
Focus
Sustained Effort and Attention
Emotional Control/Inhibition
Working Memory
Planning/Organizing
Analysis
Social and mental flexibility (shift)
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8. Do not operate in isolation of one another
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A New View of Behavior
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10. Won’t? Or Can’t? Depends on whether cues are internal or external
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12. Cooperative Peer-Play is Critical Step in Development of EF!
Planning
Organizing
Working memory
Inhibition/self- control
Flexibility
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13. Co-Existing Conditions
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Dyslexia, Learning Challenges (may or may not be present)
Mood Disorders (Depression, Bi-polar)
Genetic Conditions
Traumatic Brain Injuries
Attention Disorders
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Cycle of SUCCESS
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