The everything parent's guide to children with executive functioning disorder: strategies to help your child achieve the time management skills, focus, and organization needed to succeed in school and life

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Learn what EF difficulties look like, and how you can help your child overcome these challenges. Branstetter teaches you how to help improve the executive functions, and includes checklists to help enforce skills and improve organization. This is your step-by-step handbook for helping your child concentrate, learn, and thrive!;What is executive functioning? -- The "Big 10" executive functions -- How does executive functioning develop in children and adolescents? -- Disorders with symptoms of executive functioning weakness -- Task initiation: taming your child's procrastination monster -- Response inhibition: teaching your child to control impulses -- Focus -- Time management: strengthening your child's internal clock -- Working memory -- Flexibility: rolling with changes -- Self-regulation: thinking about thinking -- Emotional self-control -- Task completion -- Organization -- Setting up your home environment to support executive functioning development -- How to advocate for support for your child at school -- Parenting children with executive functioning challenges -- Manager or micromanager? -- What if you also have executive functioning challenges? -- Building resilience. What is executive functioning? -- The "Big 10" executive functions -- How does executive functioning develop in children and adolescents? -- Disorders with symptoms of executive functioning weakness -- Task initiation: taming your child's procrastination monster -- Response inhibition: teaching your child to control impulses -- Focus -- Time management: strengthening your child's internal clock -- Working memory -- Flexibility: rolling with changes -- Self-regulation: thinking about thinking -- Emotional self-control -- Task completion -- Organization -- Setting up your home environment to support executive functioning development -- How to advocate for support for your child at school -- Parenting children with executive functioning challenges -- Manager or micromanager? -- What if you also have executive functioning challenges? -- Building resilience.