Executive Function
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Judith Kolberg & Kathleen Nadeau ADD-Friendly Ways To Organize Your Life
Strategies that Work from an Acclaimed Professional Organizer and a Renowned ADD Clinician (2nd Edition) This revised edition includes all new content on organizing digital information, managing distractions, organizing finances, and coping with the "black hole" of the Internet. This resource offers three levels of strategies and support and includes self-help, non-professional assistance from family and friends, and professional support. This allows the reader to determine the appropriate level of support they require.
$53.95
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Edward Hallowell ADHD Explained
Your Tool Kit to Understanding and Thriving World-renowned ADHD expert, best-selling author, and TikTok sensation Dr. Edward M. Hallowell (a.k.a. Dr. Ned) demystifies this deeply misunderstood diagnosis in 100 lessons. Through simple science and must-know life hacks, FAQs, and debunked myths, transform your understanding of ADHD and learn to thrive. Each empowering page will unlock the potential and finally let people see the best in their or their friends', family members', or colleagues' ADHD. This is a fast-track introduction to ADHD, what it is, how it manifests, and ways to cope with it. Brief entries and an easy-to-follow structure disseminate knowledge and the latest scientific findings in a style particularly suited to ADHD readers. As both an ADHD expert and a diagnosed patient, Dr. Ned blends a medical and personal take on the topic in this groundbreaking guide.
$33.99
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Clark McKown Assessing Students' Social and Emotional Learning
A Guide to Meaningful Measurement (SEL Solutions Series) An essential guide to using social and emotional assessment in support of teaching and learning. Assessing children’s social and emotional learning skills is a critical and underappreciated element of all SEL programming. This book provides educators with practical information that they can use to clarify their assessment goals, identify viable assessment options that meet their needs, and understand and use assessment data to inform their practice and improve student outcomes.
$25.95
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Joyce Cooper-Kahn & Margaret Foster Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom
A Practical Guide for Educators This important book offers teachers specific strategies to help students with Executive Function deficits learn in an efficient manner, demonstrate what they know, and manage the daily demands of school. The book's reproducible forms and handouts are available for free download.
$37.95
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Christine Reeve & Susan Kabot Building Independence
How to Create and Use Structured Work Systems Structured work systems are one method that can be used to ensure that people with ASD develop and maintain their ability to work on their own, without assistance and prompting from others. Briefly, structured work systems are designed to give visual information about what work needs to be done, how much works needs to be done, when the work is completed and what will happen next. Due to the predictability and sense of accomplishment that are built into the system, many individuals with ASD find the structured work time their favorite time of the day. Full of color photos and case examples spanning age and levels of functioning, the book provides an A-Z guide to work systems, including assessment, how to build them into the curriculum, IEPs, lesson planning and more.
$60.50
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Coaching Students with Executive Skills Challenges
This practical manual presents an evidence-based coaching model for helping students whose academic performance is suffering due to deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. In just a few minutes a day, coaches can provide crucial support and instruction tailored to individual students' needs. From leading experts, the book provides detailed guidelines for incorporating coaching into a response-to-intervention framework, identifying students who can benefit, conducting each session, and monitoring progress. Special topics include how to implement a class wide peer coaching program. More than three dozen reproducible assessment tools, forms, and handouts are featured; the large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate photocopying.
$63.50
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Cognitive Remediation to Improve Functional Outcomes
This book provides mental health practitioners with the background knowledge, hands-on methods, and tools they need to provide cognitive remediation (CR) to patients in a way that maximizes the transfer of cognitive gains to everyday functioning. An outstanding group of international experts have contributed chapters that provide information on assessment, treatment planning, groups, cultural sensitivity, and specific CR techniques to promote functional change. Clinicians will come to understand the variety of treatment methods and how they can be applied to the diverse range of individuals who stand to benefit from cognitive remediation. This is the first practitioner-oriented resource on CR to provide information on how to tailor the treatment to meet the functional needs of patients.
$89.95
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Disorganized Mind: ADHD Adults
Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents Ratey has produced a valuable resource for people addressing the daily challenges caused by the neurobiological condition of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Symptoms of ADHD include difficulty with organization, focus, and time management. With a nod to her audience, Ratey divides her book into sections that can be absorbed in small increments, including her own struggles with the disorder, her six-step "A.N.S.W.E.R" system, case studies and tips from spouses and employers. For ADHD sufferers, Ratey's book might not be a one-stop remedy but it's an extremely helpful starting place.
$27.00
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Executive Function and Child Development
Poor executive function (EF) in the brain can mean behavioral and attentional problems in school. This book explains to professionals and parents how EF develops in kids, what EF difficulties look like, and what creative and effective interventions can meet their needs.
$67.95
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Executive Function in Education
From Theory to Practice This groundbreaking volume, now revised and updated, has given thousands of educators and clinicians a deeper understanding of executive function (EF) processes in typically developing children and those with learning difficulties and developmental disabilities. The book elucidates how PreK-12 students develop such key capacities as goal setting, organization, cognitive flexibility, working memory, and self-monitoring. Leading experts in education, neuroscience, and psychology explore the links between EF and academic performance and present practical applications for assessment and instruction. Exemplary practices for supporting students with EF difficulties in particular content areas--reading, writing, and math--are reviewed.
$48.95
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Executive Function in the Classroom
Practical Strategies for Improving Performance and Enhancing Skills for All Students Help K-12 teachers understand and enhance students' executive function skills-the key to long-term school and social success. This practical how-to guide is packed with ready-to-use forms and strategies that improve outcomes across subject areas. A teacher-friendly guide for transforming research on executive functions into classroom practice for reading, writing, and math.
$55.95
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Executive Function Skills in the Classroom
Overcoming Barrier, Building Strategies Ideal for professional development, the book includes flexible, practical, research-based ideas for implementation in a variety of classroom contexts. It shares stories from dozens of expert teachers who are integrating explicit EF support across the school day. Provided is a clear approach for talking about EF barriers and strategies as part of instruction, and working as a class to problem-solve, explore, and apply the strategies that feel right for each student. Several reproducible tools can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
$55.95
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Executive Functioning Workbook for Adults
Exercises to Help You Get Organized, Stay Focused, and Achieve Your Goals If your executive functioning skills could use a boost, this is the perfect place to start! No matter your job or lifestyle, the simple strategies will help you feel more in control so you can thrive. Find in-depth information about how executive functioning works, along with self-assessments, advice for breaking bad habits, worksheets to keep you on track, and more. This book breaks down each aspect of executive function and offers step-by-step guidance that's easy to understand and stick with for long-term results. Explore exercises designed to improve: attention and focus, organization, task initiation, planning and prioritization, self-monitoring, working memory, flexible thinking, emotional control, and impulse control.
$26.99
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Executive Functioning Workbook for Kids
40 Fun Activities to Build Memory, Flexible Thinking, and Self-Control Skills at Home, in School and Beyond Executive functioning is the name for the skills we use to pay attention, complete tasks, and remember important things. But that's a lot for a brain to do every day-especially for kids. The Executive Functioning Workbook for Kids helps them train their brain to improve their memory, flexible thinking, and self-control. Kids will explore 40 hands-on activities to help them conquer executive functioning skills at home, at school, and out in the world.
$26.99
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Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens
Help for Unprepared, Late and Scattered Teens This easy-to-use, practical workbook, written by a licensed school counselor, will provide you with the skills needed to get organized, retain information, communicate effectively, and perform well in school and in everyday life. Based in proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the book offers activities that will help you better understand yourself and effectively make change happen. Included are tips for initiating positive action and change, improving flexibility in thinking, sustaining attention, organizing, planning, enhancing memory, managing emotions, and building self-awareness.
$32.95
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Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents
A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention Many school practitioners and teachers (K-12) have benefited from the step-by-step guidelines and practical tools in this influential go-to resource. This book presents effective ways to assess students' strengths and weaknesses, create supportive instructional environments, and promote specific skills, such as organization, time management, sustained attention, and emotional control. Strategies for individualized and class-wide intervention are illustrated with vivid examples and sample scripts. This book includes 38 reproducible forms and handouts. Purchasers are allowed online access to download and print the reproducible materials.
$65.95
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Fix It With Focus
A Story About Ignoring Distraction and Staying on Task Focus. Focus. Focus. That is the advice Blake frequently hears but fails to follow. Although he may be struggling with focus and learning to stay on task, the adults in his life are there to help teach him how to use tools like the work/brain break cycle, squishy eraser, glove tapping, and more!
$17.99
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FLIPP the Switch 2.0:
Mastering Executive Function Skills from School to Adult Life for Students with Autism This book provides educators with detailed information about executive function skills and evidence-based practices that can be used with students with autism spectrum disorder who experience EF deficits to be more successful in school, at home, in the community, and in the future. It provides specific strategies that will support kindergarten through high school students in building strong, long-term gains in executive function skills. FLIPP 2.0 expands upon the information provided in the first book, FLIPP THE SWITCH, by providing more complex strategies that can be implemented in the classroom.
$45.50
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FLIPP The Switch: Executive Function
Strengthen Executive Function Skills This is a practical book written for parents and educators by parents and educators. The target audience is anyone who works with young people aged 3-22 who are disorganized, inflexible, impulsive, and who struggle with planning or problem solving. Readers will learn about executive function (EF) and how EF skills contribute to success in school, at home, and in work environments. Most importantly, readers will receive specific instructions, templates, and how-to scenarios for 25 strategies, five strategies for each of the five FLIPP components – flexibility, leveled emotionality, impulse control, planning, and problem solving. This book is indispensable for anyone who wants to minimize conflict, maximize on-task behavior, and support positive social-emotional development in a child or student with challenging behavior.
$45.50
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Get Organized Without Losing It (Grades 7-12)
This book provides friendly, entertaining help for kids, who want to manage their tasks, time, and stuff, without going overboard or being totally obsessed. It empowers kids to conquer clutter, prioritize tasks, master their devices (not the other way around), supercharge study skills, handle homework, and prepare for tests, stop procrastinating and start enjoying less stress and more success. Updates include modern organization solutions such as electronic calendars, how to avoid device distractions and online resources. Revised and updated.
$16.95
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How Do I Remember All That?
A Story to Improve Working Memory Braden's schoolwork seems to be getting tougher. Word problems are more complicated. Reading passages are longer. When he's quizzed on details, they seem to be getting lost in translation. And this is carrying over to home, too! With help from a caring teacher and plenty of opportunities to practice at home, Braden starts to learn and practice strategies for improving his working memory! Examples model breaking down complex problems into smaller, manageable tasks, using mnemonic devices, visualization, and other practical tools for improving working memory!
$15.50
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How to Keep House While Drowning
A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing If you're struggling to stay on top of your to-do list, you probably have a good reason: anxiety, fatigue, depression, ADHD, or lack of support. Building on this foundation of self-compassion, therapist KC Davis devised the powerful practical approach that has exploded in popularity through her TikTok account, @domesticblisters. The secret is to simplify your to-do list and to find creative workarounds that accommodate your limited time and energy. In this book, you'll learn exactly how to customize your cleaning strategy and rebuild your relationship with your home.
$33.99
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I Can't Find My Whatchamacallit
Cletus can't find anything in his room, is very messy, disorganized, and is constantly losing things. Fortunately Cletus has his cousin Bocephus to help him get organized. This book will help children understand, develop, and apply organization - a vital executive function skill. Children who possess effective organizational skills can learn to manage daily responsibilities and how to plan ahead effectively..
$15.95
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Impulsive, Disorganized Child
Solutions for Parenting Kids with Executive Functioning Difficulties This book helps parents pinpoint weak executive functions in their children, which commonly affect many children already diagnosed with ADHD, learning disabilities, and autism, then learn how to help their kids overcome these deficits with practical, easy solutions. Children who can't select, plan, initiate, or sustain action toward their goals are children who simply struggle to succeed in school and other aspects of life. Parents need the helpful, proven advice and interactive surveys and action plans in this book to empower them to take positive action to teach their disorganized, impulsive child to achieve independence, success, and a level of self-support.
$26.50
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