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Smart but scattered, the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential, Peg Dawson, Richard Guare

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Smart but scattered, the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential, Peg Dawson, Richard Guare

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Smart but scattered

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

223847372

Responsibility statement

Peg Dawson, Richard Guare

Sub title

the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential

Table Of Contents

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?

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