Assessment and Interventions for Executive Function Difficulties

Course overview

This presentation will help participants gain a deeper understanding of executive functions and how executive functions deficits impact the behavior and academic production of children and adolescents. Participants will gain state-of-the-art knowledge of the most effective ways to help children and adolescents improve their use of executive functions. Dr. McCloskey will describe ways to discuss executive functions with children, parents and school staff. He will also discuss ways to help motivate children and adolescents to ensure their full participation in intervention efforts. He will place special emphasis on how to orient students to intervention efforts and the use of bridging strategies to help students move from being externally controlled to being internally self-regulated. Dr. McCloskey will use numerous case study examples of assessment and intervention efforts and outcomes with children and adolescents throughout the presentation. Participants will leave this workshop with a greater understanding of how to improve executive functions, and a greater realization of how their efforts can have a positive effect on the children, parents and professionals with whom they work