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Second Edition
The Revolutionary Executive Skills Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
Peg Dawson, Richard Guare, and Colin Guare
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I. What Makes Your Child Smart but Scattered
1. How Did Such a Smart Kid End Up So Scattered?
2. Identifying Your Child’s Executive Skill Strengths and Challenges
3. How Your Own Executive Skill Strengths and Challenges Matter
II. Laying a Foundation That Can Help
4. Nine Principles for Improving Your Child’s Executive Skills
5. Modifying the Environment: A Is for Antecedent
6. Teaching Executive Skills Directly: B Is for Behavior
7. Motivating Your Child to Learn and Use Executive Skills: C Is for Consequence
III. Putting It All Together
8. Advance Organizer
9. Ready-Made Plans for Teaching Your Child to Complete Daily Routines
10. Building Response Inhibition
12. Improving Emotional Control
13. Encouraging Flexibility
14. Strengthening Sustained Attention
15. Teaching Task Initiation
16. Promoting, Planning, and Prioritizing
17. Fostering Organization
18. Instilling Time Management
19. Increasing Goal-Directed Persistence
20. Cultivating Metacognition
21. When What You Do Is Not Enough
22. A Brief Look at Technology
23. The Role of Schools in Executive Skill Development
Parting Thoughts
Resources
Index
