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504 for Executive Functioning: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

504/IEP, Executive Functioning / By Dr. Roseann

Executive functioning skills are essential for academic success, but many students struggle with these skills. As a parent, it can be challenging to watch your child struggle with planning, organization, time management, and other executive functioning skills that are necessary for good grades. Fortunately, there are options available to help your child, including a 504 …

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11 Ways to Improve Attention and Executive Functioning Through Play

Executive Functioning / By Dr. Roseann

What is Executive Functioning? Executive functions are a set of mental skills controlled by the brain’s frontal lobes that help one organize their thinking and actions for a future action or goal. It is all that we do to get an end result. It involves strategic planning and organizational skills that help you see that …

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ADHD vs. EF vs. Dyslexia

ADHD, Dyslexia/Learning, Executive Functioning / By Dr. Roseann

Dyslexia, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Executive Functioning Disorder (EFD) are the three of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders that school-age children suffer from. These cognitive challenges are connected in many ways because most of their symptoms overlap and impact children’s learning. Due to the associated stress, these clinical issues also impact children’s mental health. …

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13 Exercises to Improve Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning, News & Media / By Dr. Roseann

Get up and get moving! Exercise is a great way to improve your behavior, and mood and revitalize the mind and body. There are many science-backed reasons why exercise helps boost your mood, increase focus, and reduce stress. Exercise reduces clinical mental health issues by improving brain chemistry and increasing feel-good neurotransmitters. It also increases …

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37 Ways To help a Child with Executive Functioning Issues

Executive Functioning / By Dr. Roseann

Executive Functioning and ADHD in the Real World All kids with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) display both problems with how the brain alerts and with executive functioning. However, not all kids with executive functioning difficulties or dysfunction, have ADHD. One’s executive functioning can be impaired for a variety or reasons. When something interferes with a …

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17 Reasons A Child Has Mood Swings

Depression/Mood/Behavior, Executive Functioning, Neurofeedback / By Dr. Roseann

Emotional regulation is an important foundational component of not just behavioral regulation but attention, executive functioning, and all learning. Without a calm brain to build a foundation upon, the nervous system can’t learn in the same way. When a person or child struggles with emotional regulation, they are more prone to mental health issues, behavioral …

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Autism and Executive Functioning

Autism, Executive Functioning / By Dr. Roseann

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social skills, repetitive behaviors, limited interests, speech, and nonverbal communication. ASD is on the rise with about 1 in 44 children having autism. People with autism display behaviors that occur along a spectrum with some children having cognitive impairments and others having normal …

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Neurofeedback for Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning / By Dr Roseann

Your child’s school performance depends on a lot of factors, but having good executive functioning skills is a key factor to achieve good grades, independent problem solving and task completion. Executive functions are important for success at school and home life because they are a set of mental skills that help one prioritize and plan, …

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Executive Functioning and Anxiety

Anxiety, Executive Functioning / By Dr Roseann

It is hard enough when you struggle with executive functioning but then add in anxiety or depression, then starting or finishing a task becomes ten times as hard. The reality is that most kids and individuals with executive functioning challenges also face anxiety about their inability to be organized and just get stuff done. What …

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Executive Functioning and Writing

Executive Functioning / By Dr Roseann

Understanding how executive functioning impacts writing is important in helping you support your child with executive functioning challenges, as most kids with EF difficulties struggle with getting their thoughts down on the page. Writing is a very complex process that involves attention, executive functioning, language skills and fine motor skills. Writing requires the following skills: …

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504 for Executive Functioning: Helping Your Child Succeed in School

11 Ways to Improve Attention and Executive Functioning Through Play

ADHD vs. EF vs. Dyslexia

13 Exercises to Improve Executive Functioning

37 Ways To help a Child with Executive Functioning Issues

17 Reasons A Child Has Mood Swings

Autism and Executive Functioning

Neurofeedback for Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning and Anxiety

Executive Functioning and Writing

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