Title:
Executive skills in children and adolescents : a practical guide to assessment and intervention / Peg Dawson, Richard Guare.
Author:
Dawson, Peg, author.
Guare, Richard, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Guilford Press, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
BF723.E93 D39 2018
Abstract:
Many tens of thousands of school practitioners and teachers (K-12) have benefited from the step-by-step guidelines and practical tools in this influential go-to resource, now revised and expanded with six new chapters. The third edition presents effective ways to assess students' strengths and weaknesses, create supportive instructional environments, and promote specific skills, such as organization, time management, sustained attention, and emotional control. Strategies for individualized and classwide intervention are illustrated with vivid examples and sample scripts. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes 38 reproducible forms and handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials--back cover.
Edition:
Third edition.
ISBN:
9781462535316
Series:
The Guilford practical intervention in the schools series
Guilford practical intervention in the schools series.
Physical Description:
xix, 332 pages : illustrations, forms ; 27 cm.
Contents:
Part 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 -- Part 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 -- 10. Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits -- 11. Planning for Transitions -- Part III. Whole-School Applications : 12. Implementation and Accessibility of Executive Skills -- 13. EFs 2 The Rescue Pedagogy -- 14. Building an Executive Functioning Culture in the Classroom: How a Small Group of Teachers Changed a School -- Appendix. Reproducible Forms.
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