Smart but Scattered : The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach their Potential
Dawson, Peg.
Smart but Scattered : The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach their Potential Peg Dawson, Richard Guare. - New York : Guilford Press, c2009. - vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index.
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?
9781593859879 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1593859872 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781593854454 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1593854455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2008026078
GBA8A3535 bnb
014702675 Uk
Parenting.
Executive ability in children.
Children--Life skills guides.
Child development.
Parent and child.
Child rearing
HQ755.8 / .D39 2009
649/.1526
Smart but Scattered : The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach their Potential Peg Dawson, Richard Guare. - New York : Guilford Press, c2009. - vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index.
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?
9781593859879 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1593859872 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781593854454 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1593854455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2008026078
GBA8A3535 bnb
014702675 Uk
Parenting.
Executive ability in children.
Children--Life skills guides.
Child development.
Parent and child.
Child rearing
HQ755.8 / .D39 2009
649/.1526