Smart but Scattered The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential

ISBN-10: 1593854455

ISBN-13: 9781593854454

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peg Dawson, Richard Guare

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Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Publication date: 1/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 314
Size: 7.05" wide x 10.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



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



Laying a Foundation That Can Help



Ten Principles for Improving Your Child's Executive Skills



Modifying the Environment:AIs forAntecedent



Teaching Executive Skills Directly:BIs forBehavior



Motivating Your Child to Learn and Use Executive Skills:CIs forConsequence



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



Promoting Planning and Prioritizing



Fostering Organization



Instilling Time Management



Encouraging Flexibility



Increasing Goal-Directed Persistence