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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, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions. Learn easy-to-follow steps to identify your child's strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines. --from publisher description
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Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary Executive Skills Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
2024, Guilford Publications
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Smart but scattered: the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential
2008, Guilford Press
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: What makes your child smart but scattered
How did such a smart kid end up so scattered?
Identifying your child's strengths and weaknesses
How your own executive strengths and weaknesses matter
Matching the child to the task
Part II: Laying a foundation that can help
Ten principles for improving your child's executive skills
Modifying the environment : A is for antecedent
Teaching executive skills directly : B is for behavior
Motivating your child to learn and use executive skills : C is for consequence
Part III: Putting it all together
Advance organizer
Ready-made plans for teaching your child to complete daily routines
Building response inhibition
Enhancing working memory
Improving emotional control
Strengthening sustained attention
Teaching task initiation 16 promoting planning and prioritizing
Fostering organization
Instilling time management
Encouraging flexibility
Increasing goal-directed persistence
Cultivating metacognition
When what you do is not enough
Working with the school
What's ahead?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Feedback?January 4, 2011 | Edited by menolly42 | Added new cover |
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