Executive Function
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It Was Just Right Here (Executive Function)
Blake is struggling to keep his schoolwork, his papers and his things in order. Assignments and permission slips always go missing. Even the class pet disappears (only to be found nesting inside Blake's overstuffed, completely cluttered, bursting-at-the-seams school desk)! With a much-needed assist from his teacher and a timely baseball analogy, Blake finally learns how to get organized. It's the latest title in the Executive FUNction children's book series. Grades K-6.
$15.95
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It's Hard to Be a Verb! (Learning to Focus)
Activity and Idea Book. Louis is a verb! He has a lot of trouble focusing and he is always doing something, but the problem is usually it's the wrong something. Louis's mom teaches him how to focus by showing him a few hands on ideas that anyone can try. A must have book for all who struggle with paying attention!
$15.95
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Late, Lost, and Unprepared (ASD Executive Function)
A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning This is a must-have book for parents of children from primary school through high school who struggle with: Impulse Control (taking turns, interrupting others, running off); Cognitive Flexibility (adapting to new situations, transitions, handling frustrations); Initiation (starting homework, chores, and major projects); Working Memory (following directions, note-taking, reading and retaining info); Planning & Organising (completing and turning in homework, juggling schedules); Self-monitoring (making careless errors, staying on topic, getting into trouble but not understanding why). Written by clinical psychologists, this book emphasises the need for a two-pronged approach to intervention: 1) helping the child to manage demands in the short run, and 2) building independent skills for long-term self-management.
$29.95
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Living with Inattentive ADHD
Climbing the Circular Staircase of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Written by someone diagnosed late in life, this insightful memoir layers the author's personal experiences with practical revelations on issues common to those living with this condition, including growing up with undiagnosed ADHD, living with it as an adult, and frank discussions about the struggles and obstacles involved. ADHD profoundly affects every aspect of a person's daily life and emotional well-being. Living With Inattentive ADHD is your guide through this winding journey "circular staircase" with research-backed recommendations and advice given on everything from diagnosis, prescriptive medication, health habits, common problem areas and solutions, and more.
$21.95
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Order from Chaos: The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD
Order from Chaos will teach you how your brain works and how to stop getting in your own way. Mixing stories from the trenches of her own experience as a mom and wife with ADHD with wise, well-researched advice from her years as a blogger at The ADHD Homestead, Jaclyn Paul shows you how to design your own system for restoring order.
$26.99
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Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD
Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized Revised and Updated. This book has a visual format designed to provide organizational help for adults with ADD and their families. This book outlines strategies for anyone who wants to improve their organizational, or lack of, skills in their life. Included are chapters for ADD at Work, at Home, with Kids and ADD and You. Color photographs that capture the short attention span of the reader are featured throughout, as well as sidebars and testimonials from adults with ADD. Readers will find practical tips like dividing time into minutes or moments, task completion, how to avoid procrastination, learning to ask for help, and how not to be a pack rat.
$40.95
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Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD
Building Skills and Motivation This user-friendly manual presents an innovative, tested approach to helping teens overcome the frustrating organizational and motivation problems associated with executive function deficits and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The Supporting Teens' Autonomy Daily approach uses motivational interviewing to engage teens and their parents in building key compensatory skills in organization, time management, and planning. Worksheets and rating scales are provided; the book has a large-size format for easy photocopying.
$43.95
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Pathways to Competence
Encouraging Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children This essential text is a comprehensive, one-stop guide to addressing every facet of social-emotional development, working skillfully with children and families, and improving parents' interactions with their children. Get the most up-to-date research findings on each social and emotional area; learn what social-emotional milestones a child should reach at each age level; address parents' most common questions about hot topics such as challenging behavior, language development, discipline, play, and feeding and sleeping problems; get a wide range of simple, concrete strategies and principles to use with children in their care and share with caregivers to promote their children's development in each key area; guide caregivers with updated exercises and activities that sharpen their parenting skills; select and use appropriate assessments.
$92.95
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Planning Isn't My Priority
And Making Priorities isn't in My Plans Planning and prioritizing are two of the most difficult executive function skills to master. Planning effectively is the thinking skill that helps develop strategies to accomplish goals. It allows you to think about completing a task before it is started. Prioritizing effectively helps make the best choices possible. This storybook, part of the Executive functioning book series, highlights the importance of planning and prioritizing. It also spotlights our unique differences and strengths. This book will help children determine the necessary steps, in order, towards fulfilling a goal (a vital executive function skill). Children who possess effective prioritizing skills can learn to manage not only daily responsibilities, but also how to prepare for future success.
$15.95
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Promoting Executive Function In The Classroom
What Works for Special Needs Learners Accessible and practical, this book helps teachers incorporate executive function processes such as planning, organizing, prioritizing, and self-checking into the classroom curriculum. Chapters provide effective strategies for optimizing what K-12 students learn by improving how they learn. Noted authority Lynn Meltzer and her research associates present a wealth of easy-to-implement assessment tools, teaching techniques and activities, and planning aids. Featuring numerous whole-class ideas and suggestions, the book also shows how to differentiate instruction for students with learning or attention difficulties. Case examples illustrate individualized teaching strategies and classroom accommodations. More than a dozen reproducible are included; the large-size format facilitates photocopying and day-to-day reference.
$59.95
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Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
What People On The Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity Autistic voices highlights how parents can avoid common mistakes and misconceptions and make their child feel truly accepted, valued, and celebrated. Sincerely, This anthology tackles the everyday joys and challenges of growing up autistic. Contributors reflect on what they have learned while growing up on the autism spectrum and how parents can avoid common mistakes and overcome challenges while raising their child. Part memoir, part guide, and part love letter, this indispensable collection invites parents and allies into the unique and often unheard experiences of autistic children and teens.
$22.95
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Six Super Skills for Executive Functioning
Tools to Help Teens Improve Focus, Stay Organized, and Reach Their Goals All teens need a little extra help staying focused-in school and in life. This is especially true if you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing disorders, a mood disorder, or have experienced traumatic brain injury. The good news is that there are skills you can learn to help you stay on track. In this friendly guide, psychologist and ADHD expert offers six powerful "super skills" to help you pay attention, increase productivity, and get organized so you can achieve your goals and live your best life.
$25.95
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Smart But Scattered Executive Skills for Kids
The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential There's nothing more frustrating than watching your bright talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your "smart but scattered" child might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger. Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great news: there's a lot you can do to help. The latest research in child development shows that many kids who have the brain and heart to succeed lack or lag behind in crucial "executive skills" - the fundamental habits of mind required for getting organized
$25.95
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Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (Adults)
How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive skills—the core brain-based abilities needed to maintain focus, meet deadlines, and stay cool under pressure. In this essential guide, leading experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare help you map your own executive skills profile and take effective steps to boost your organizational skills, time management, emotional control, and nine other essential capacities.
$24.95
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Smart But Scattered Teens
The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential If you're the parent of a "smart but scattered" teen, trying to help him or her grow into a self-sufficient, responsible adult may feel like a never-ending battle. Now you have an alternative to micromanaging, cajoling, or ineffective punishments. This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens' independence by building their executive skills--the fundamental brain-based abilities needed to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions. Executive skills experts Drs. Richard Guare and Peg Dawson are joined by Colin Guare, a young adult who has successfully faced these issues himself. Learn step-by-step strategies to help your teen live up to his or her potential now and in the future--while making your relationship stronger.
$25.95
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Smart but Scattered: Helping ADHD Kids Ages 4-12
The Revolutionary Executive Skills Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration--but some do it much more often than others. With over 425,000 in print, this encouraging, bestselling parent guide is now in a revised and updated second edition. The authors explain the crucial brain-based skills that 4- to 12-year-olds need to get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses and emotions. Handy questionnaires help parents home in on their own child's executive strengths and weaknesses. Armed with a better understanding of their "smart but scattered" kid, readers can use proven strategies to boost skills that are lacking, fix everyday routines that don't work, and reduce everyone's stress. Including new research, new and updated vignettes, and "A Good Place to Start" suggestions for each skill, the second edition features a new chapter on technology and a greatly expanded school chapter. Readers can download and print a wealth of practical tools.
$29.50
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Dr. Thomas E. Brown Smart But Stuck: Emotions in Teens and Adults with ADHD
This book offers 15 true and compelling stories about intelligent, capable teens and adults who have gotten "stuck" at school, work, and/or in social relationships because of their ADHD. Dr. Brown highlights the often unrecognized role that emotions play in this complex disorder. He explains why even very bright people with ADHD get stuck because they can focus well on some tasks that interest them, but often can't focus adequately on other important tasks and relationships.
$34.95
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Solving Executive Function Challenges
Simple Ways to Get Kids with Autism Unstuck and on Target This practical guide shows how to embed executive function instruction in dozens of everyday scenarios, from morning routines to getting homework done. Designed for therapists, teachers, and parents, these highly effective techniques give children the skills they need to navigate each day, reach their goals, and succeed inside and outside the classroom.
$48.50
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Patricia Weaver Stuff You Need To Know (Young Adult with Autism)
A Guide for Young Adults with Autism Is your child with autism getting ready to live on their own? This book is a guide to help kids and young adults with autism learn the most basic skills to achieve independence. This workbook covers beginner-level tasks such as reading nutritional labels and making healthy choices, practicing good hygiene and getting ready independently, following a recipe to make lunch, realizing when something is an emergency (and having an action plan), and using technology and social media safely.
$23.95
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Taking Care Of Myself (For Young People with Autism)
A Hygiene, Puberty, And Personal Curriculum For Young People With Autism Puberty can be especially tough when young people have autism or other special needs. Through simple stories similar to Carol Gray's Social Stories, author Mary Wrobel teaches caregivers exactly what to say and not say, and shows how you can create helpful stories of your own. Mary addresses hygiene, modesty, body growth and development, menstruation, touching, personal safety, and more. Young students can benefit from self-care skills such as using the toilet, brushing teeth, and washing hands. Parents and teachers should begin teaching these necessary skills as early as possible, even from ages 3-5. The ultimate goal is to maximize the child's potential for independence and lifelong social success.
$34.95
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The Teen's Guide to PDA
Being a teenager is tricky at the best of times. Your body is changing and hormones are raging around your body - adding PDA to the mix makes this even harder! You may often feel misunderstood by others, and find it hard to understand yourself too. Whether you've just been diagnosed with PDA -or are a seasoned PDAer keen to know a bit more - this warm and wittily illustrated guide will give you a better understanding of your amazing brain and why you are so good at some things, but find other things tricky. It will help you to advocate for yourself better, understand your anxieties, manage rejection sensitivity dysphoria, explain to your family and friends and others what you need (and what drives you up the wall) - and navigate school or alternative education.
$22.95
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Thriving with Adult ADHD
Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning This book offers a toolbox of information, assessments, and evidence-based exercises to help you build executive function skills and take control of your ADHD. Make real, sustainable changes with practical guidance and activities for sharpening your memory and attention. This book teaches you how to learn how to plan and organize, strengthen your mental flexibility, enhance your emotional regulation, improve your impulse control, and live your best life.
$28.99
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Time to Get Started: A Story About Learning to Take Initiative (Executive FUNction Book 5)
Blake is busy! He's always moving and always has something going on. So why is it that people keep insisting that he do things he doesn't want to do? Why does he have to clean his room RIGHT NOW? He'll get to it EVENTUALLY! Luckily for Blake, his mom is there to work with him on the important skill of taking initiative. And she should know - she says her dad had to work with her on that same task when she was young. Blake and Mom explore WHY Blake doesn't want to get started, and they go through a few simple steps on how to take initiative and get things done. Will Blake be able to use these steps to get started on his work at home and at school? Find out in this title in the very popular Executive FUNction series.
$15.95
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Steve Herman Train Your Dragon to Focus (My Dragon Books – Volume 59)
A Cute Children's Book to Help Kids Improve Focus, Pay Attention, Avoid Distractions, and Increase Concentration.Having a pet dragon is very fun! He can sit, rollover, and play… He can candle a birthday cake, lit a campfire, or so many other cool things…But what if your dragon has trouble staying focused?What if he won't pay attention to his teacher in class and often look out the windows watching clouds go by instead?What if he often daydreams when the teacher is teaching?What if he is easily distracted during his soccer game?What if he always has trouble staying on task at home?What should you do?You teach him how to focus!You train him to pay attention to his teacher even if the clouds going by outside are more interesting…You show him how to stay on task, avoid distractions, and increase his attention!You help him stop his wandering mind from jumping around and concentrate on the task at hand!
$21.95
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