Ebook: Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention
Author: Peg Dawson Richard Guare
- Genre: Psychology
- Tags: Child Psychology, Psychology & Counseling, Health Fitness & Dieting, Neuropsychology, Psychology & Counseling, Health Fitness & Dieting, Child, Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Psychology, Psychology, Child Psychology, Psychology, Neuropsychology, Psychology, Educational Psychology, Education Theory, Schools & Teaching, Education & Teaching, Special Education, Behavioral Disorders, Communicative Disorders, Gifted Students, Inclusive Education, Learning Disabled, Mentally Disabled, Physically Disabled, Sc
- Series: The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: The Guilford Press
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
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Concise and practitioner friendly, this bestselling 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. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
See also the authors' Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits, which provides instructions and tools for implementing an evidence-based coaching model. Also from Dawson and Guare: an academic planner for students, Smart but Scattered parenting guides, and a self-help guide for adults.
This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.