What is Executive Functioning?
Executive functioning and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. These skills depend on three types of brain function: working memory, mental flexibility, and self-control.
How Our Team Helps:
Our Speech Pathologists and Occupational Therapists will work together and individually to help your child with the following challenges:
- Improving their memory skills
- Organizing their thoughts to have more coherent conversations
- Remembering what they are told to avoid repeating instructions
- Difficulty beginning a task due to the inability to plan
- Time management difficulties
- Seeing the bigger picture and missing details
- Retelling stories or events in a linear chronological order
- Completing day-to-day tasks like self-cares, morning and bedtime routines, and academic routines
- Difficulty with Socialization
Children who would benefit include:
- Elementary, Middle, and High School Students
- Children who frequently forget
- Children who have high comprehension but struggle in specific academic areas
- Children who have an ADHD Diagnosis
- Children who have difficulty with time management
- Children with difficulty organizing their thoughts and ideas