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Smart but scattered: the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential

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Dawson, Peg

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Introduction

Part I: 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 skill strengths and weaknesses matter

Matching the child to the task

Part II: Laying a foundation that can help

Ten principles for improving your child's executive skills

Modifying the environment : A is for antecedent

Teaching executive skills directly : B is for behavior

Motivating your child to learn and use executive skills : C is for consequence

Part III: 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

Cultivating metacognition

When what you do is not enough

Working with the school

What's ahead?

From the Book - Second edition.

Introduction

Part I: What makes your child smart but scattered

How did such a smart kid end up so scattered?

Identifying your child's executive skill strengths and weaknesses

How your own executive skill strengths and challenges matter

Part II: Laying a foundation that can help

Nine principles for improving your child's executive skills

Modifying the environment : A is for antecedent

Teaching executive skills directly : B is for behavior

Motivating your child to learn and use executive skills : C is for consequence

Part III: 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

Increasing goal-directed persistence

Cultivating metacognition

When what you do is not enough

A brief look at technology

The role of schools in executive skill development

Parting thoughts.

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Subjects

Aptitude pour la direction chez l'enfant
Child Development
Children
Children -- Life skills guides
Développement
Enfants
Enfants -- Développement
Executive ability in children
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Learning Disabilities
Learning Disabilities
Life skills guides
Nonfiction
Parent-Child Relations
Parent-child relationship
Parent and child
Parenting
Parents et enfants
Psychology
Rôle parental

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Dawson, Peg Author
Guare, Colin author
Guare, Richard Author, author

ISBN

9781593859879
9781462555741
9781606238806
9781462554591
9781281963451
9781606231050
9781593854454

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