LD Expert Podcast

Executive Function – Series 1

This 4-episode series is intended to give you a strong foundation in Executive Function.

You’ll learn what it is, the underlying skills needed, how to develop it, and how to sustain that development.

 

 

Episode 10: Understanding Executive Function – Seth Perler

  • What Executive Function really is
  • How emotions and resistance can impact executive function
  • A simple framework for developing executive function in kids, teens and adults

 

Episode 11: Executive Function: The Critical Underlying Skills – Lauren Ma

  • When executive function development begins and when it’s fully developed
  • 2 critical underlying skills of executive function
  • How to test for strength or weakness in those underlying skills
  • Intro to strategies to develop those underlying skills

 

Episode 12: Build Your Child’s Executive Function – Sarah Ward

  • How the Pandemic has impacted students’ Executive Function
  • Practical strategies for parents to help their kids build Executive Function skills and situational awareness
  • Fun and simple exercises to develop time management, organization, problem-solving, decision making, & social skills

 

Episode 13: Executive Function: 7 Keys to Sustain Development – Briana Hurst

  • A framework for growing independent kids and sustaining executive function development
  • Apply neuroscience to improving motivation and thinking
  • Use a step by step strategy to problem-solve with your kids