What are executive function skills and why is strengthening them critical to success?

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Executive function skills include the ability to initiate tasks, manage time, prioritize, have goal-directed persistence, engage metacognition, be flexible, utilize working memory, and tolerate stress. Building these skills allows our children and young adults to slow down, create order, and become efficient and effective in their schoolwork as well as other aspects of their lives.

 

Could your student benefit from executive function support?

 

Does your student:

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• Find it hard to figure out how to get started on a task?

• Lack motivation to do their best?

• Need help developing organizational skills?

• Consistently have missing and late assignments? 

• Frustratingly realize something is due tomorrow?

• Struggle to sustain effort?

• Spend hours on homework, yet accomplish little?

• Neglect to appropriately plan time in advance of assessments?

• Tell you they are fine studying on their own, yet low grades follow?

• Have trouble predicting how much time a task requires?

• Struggle to plan long term projects?

• Find it hard to incorporate feedback into work or an activity?

• Have difficulty paying attention and staying on task?

• Need instructions repeated many times?

 

If you answered yes to any of the above, we can help.

*Please note that my team and I specialize in supporting upper elementary, middle school, high school, and college students