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More than 100,000 school practitioners and teachers (K-12) have benefited from the guidelines and practical tools in this go-to resource, now revised and expanded with six new chapters.
List of contents
List of Figures and Tables
I. Basic Principles of Assessment and Intervention
1. Overview of Executive Skills
2. Assessing Executive Skills
3. Linking Assessment to Intervention
4. Providing a Continuum of Services to Address the Needs of Students with Weak Executive Skills
5. Interventions to Promote Executive Skills
II. Interventions for Specific Problem Situations and Specific Executive Skills
6. Specific Teaching Routines to Promote Executive Skill Development
7. Interventions for Specific Executive Skills Domains
8. Strategies and Guidelines for Managing Executive Skills in Children with ADHD
9. Executive Skills in Autism, with Colin Guare
10. Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits
11. Planning for Transitions
III. Whole-School Applications
12. Implementation and Accessibility of Executive Skills, Mara Berzins & Nicola Daykin
13. EFS 2 The Rescue Pedagogy, Laurie Faith
14. Building an Executive Functioning Culture in the Classroom: How a Small Group of Teachers Changed a School, Timothy McElroy
Appendix. Reproducible Forms
References
Index
About the author
Peg Dawson, EdD, is a psychologist who provides professional development training on executive skills for schools and organizations nationally and internationally. She was previously on the staff of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Dawson is a past president of the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and the International School Psychology Association, and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from NASP. She is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled(with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success(with a focus on adults). Dr. Dawson is also coauthor of The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition.
Richard Guare, PhD, BCBA-D, is a neuropsychologist and board-certified behavior analyst who frequently consults to schools and agencies on attention and executive skills difficulties. He is former Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Guare is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults). He is also coauthor of The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition.
