Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits
Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits

Author: Peg Dawson

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-02-09

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1462503756

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This practical manual presents an evidence-based coaching model for helping students whose academic performance is suffering due to deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. In just a few minutes a day, coaches can provide crucial support and instruction tailored to individual students' needs. From leading experts, the book provides detailed guidelines for incorporating coaching into a response-to-intervention framework, identifying students who can benefit, conducting each session, and monitoring progress. Special topics include how to implement a classwide peer coaching program. More than three dozen reproducible assessment tools, forms, and handouts are featured; the large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series.

Coaching Students with Executive Skills Challenges
Coaching Students with Executive Skills Challenges

Author: Peg Dawson

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2023-06-08

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 146255220X

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"This practical manual presents an evidence-based coaching model for helping students whose academic performance is suffering due to deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. In just a few minutes a day, coaches can provide crucial support and instruction tailored to individual students' needs. From leading experts, the book provides detailed guidelines for incorporating coaching into a response-to-intervention framework, identifying students who can benefit, conducting each session, and monitoring progress. Special topics include how to implement a classwide peer coaching program. More than three dozen reproducible assessment tools, forms, and handouts are featured; the large-size format facilitates photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials"--

Smart but Scattered
Smart but Scattered

Author: Peg Dawson

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1606238809

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This book has been replaced by Smart but Scattered, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5459-1.

Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom
Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom

Author: Lynn Meltzer

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2010-03-23

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1606236164

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Accessible and practical, this book helps teachers incorporate executive function processes - such as planning, organizing, prioritizing, and self-checking - into the classroom curriculum. Chapters provide effective strategies for optimizing what Ka "12 students learn by improving how they learn. Noted authority Lynn Meltzer and her research associates present a wealth of easy-to-implement assessment tools, teaching techniques and activities, and planning aids. Featuring numerous whole-class ideas and suggestions, the book also covers the nuts and bolts of differentiating instruction for students with learning or attention difficulties. Case examples illustrate individualized teaching strategies and classroom accommodations. Fifteen reproducibles are included; the large-size format facilitates photocopying and day-to-day reference. This book will be invaluable to classroom teachers and special educators in grades K-12, teacher educators, school psychologists, and neuropsychologists.

Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents
Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents

Author: Peg Dawson

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2018-06-13

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1462535313

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More than 100,000 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 for easy photocopying, the book includes 38 reproducible forms and handouts. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition *Chapter with guidance and caveats for developing individual education programs (IEPs), 504 Plans, and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). *Chapters on working with students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder. *Three guest-authored chapters describing exemplary schoolwide applications. *More student centered--provides a template for involving children in intervention decision making. *Fully updated with the latest developments in the field. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition
The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition

Author: Peg Dawson

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2017-02-16

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1462530206

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From executive skills experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare, this large-format academic planner is specially designed for students in grades 6-12. It provides a system for keeping track of assignments and due dates while developing the crucial executive skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. Students are guided to build a daily study plan, manage their time, set short- and long-term goals, study for tests, and record their successes. They also get tools for evaluating their own executive skills in order to target their weaknesses and capitalize on strengths.

Smart But Scattered Teens
Smart But Scattered Teens

Author: Richard Guare

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-12-16

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1462506992

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Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses.

ADHD Coaching
ADHD Coaching

Author: Frances F. Prevatt

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433820144

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People with ADHD often struggle with time management, staying organized, maintaining relationships, and other life skills. Professional coaching can help them overcome these obstacles and regain confidence in their own problem-solving abilities. This book is an A-Z guide for mental health professionals who want to develop or expand their ADHD Coaching skills. Drawing on over a decade of research and clinical work with ADHD clients, Frances Prevatt and Abigail Levrini have established an empirically-based model for ADHD Coaching. Their approach uses elements of cognitive behavioral theory and psycho-education to target executive functioning deficits, and focuses on clients' key impairments.This book describes the underlying principles as well as the nuts and bolts of ADHD Coaching. Step-by-step details for gathering information, conducting the intake, establishing goals and objectives, and working through all stages of coaching are included, along with helpful forms and a detailed list of additional resources. The practicalities of setting up a practice, as well as professional issues are covered, and five richly detailed case studies illustrate how to help adults, college students, and adolescents who present with a variety of ADHD symptoms.