College, Disabilities, and Success

#83 Hurricane Replay: Improving Executive Function

Mickie Hayes Season 2 Episode 83

PREPPING FOR A HURRICANE,  so today I am replaying Episode 39: Improving Executive Function! Thanks for your understanding! Mickie
 

How good are your child's executive functioning skills? Is your child able to regulate his or her impulses, handle stressful situations, plan, organize, and follow through with assignments?  Today's episode breaks down executive function into the three main areas of working memory, inhibitory control, and mental flexibility suggested by Dr. C. Cybele Raven (Video below).  You will get suggestions and resources from Mickie Teaches to help you help your child strengthen the necessary executive functioning skills that lead to college success.

Free Executive Function Tips Handout

"Executive Function and Self-Regulation" - Center of the Developing Child, Harvard University

In Brief: Executive Function Skills for Life and Learning Video with C. Cybele Raven, Ph.D

SEDNET The Multiagency Network for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities

College, Disabilities, and Success Podcast Episode 34, When Students Struggle, Metacognition Helps

College, Disabilities, and Success Podcast Episode 8, How Memory Works