ERIC Number: ED509906
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Mar
Pages: 224
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ISBN: ISBN-978-1-6062-3571-3
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Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention. Second Edition
Dawson, Peg; Guare, Richard
Guilford Publications
This guide has helped put executive skills on the map for school-based clinicians and educators. The book explains how these critical cognitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children's behavior and school performance. Provided are step-by-step guidelines and many practical tools to promote executive skill development by implementing environmental modifications, individualized instruction, coaching, and whole-class interventions. In a large-size format with convenient lay-flat binding, the book includes more than two dozen reproducible assessment tools, checklists, and planning sheets. New to this Edition: (1) Revised and expanded to reflect significant advances in the field; (2) Chapter on classroom teaching routines that target executive skills during daily work and instruction; (3) Chapters on integrating executive skills strategies into a response-to-intervention model and managing transitions to a new grade or school; (4) More reproducibles, one of the book's most popular features; and (5) Increased attention to children who don't have a specific learning disorder but still struggle in school. Contents include: (1) Overview of Executive Skills; (2) Assessing Executive Skills; (3) Linking Assessment to Intervention; (4) Interventions to Promote Executive Skills; (5) Specific Teaching Routines to Promote Executive Skills Development; (6) Interventions for Specific Executive Skills Domains; (7) Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits; (8) Executive Skills Interventions within a Response-to-Intervention Framework; (9) Applications to Specific Populations; and (10) Planning for Transitions. The appendix contains reproducible forms.
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Cognitive Processes, Individualized Instruction, Skill Development, Children, Adolescents, Student Evaluation, Teachers, Child Development, Child Behavior, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Coaching (Performance), Group Instruction, Classroom Techniques, Check Lists, Models, Teaching Methods, Transitional Programs, Measures (Individuals), Student Improvement, At Risk Students
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Publication Type: Books; Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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