Executive Functioning Skills

This training provides the parent the opportunity to step back while the consultant provides skills training and assumes a supervisory role allowing the parent-child relationship to become more rewarding.

Executive Skills allow students to do the following:

• Plan their time
• Set goals and priorities
• Organize assignments
• Manage materials
• Complete homework
• Turn in assignments
• Break down tasks
• Develop effective study skills
• Plan and execute long-term projects
• Cope with a complicated schedule
• Transition easily
• Communicate their needs
• Work cooperatively with others

Executive skills are the cognitive skills that are needed to accomplish goals

• Time Management
• Organization and problem-solving
• Self-discipline
• Motivation
• Emotional regulation

What makes this intervention effective?

• Student has a positive support person to use as a sounding board and provide detailed feedback.
• Family and Consultant determine strengths and weaknesses to determine priority areas of need.
• Student feels empowered to select strategies building “buy in” and independence.
• Student learns self-advocacy skills to express what works best for them and why.