the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential Dawson, Peg. creator Guare, Richard. text bibliography nyu New York Guilford Press c2009 2009 monographic eng

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vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. 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? Peg Dawson, Richard Guare. Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index. Parenting Executive ability in children Children Life skills guides Child development Parent and child HQ755.8 .D39 2009 649/.1526 9781593859879 1593859872 9781593854454 1593854455 2008026078 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008026078.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008026078.html DLC 080613 20251118082030.0 15327895