4 Strategies to Improve Focus with Remote Learning
It’s been tough for even the most attentive students to stay focused on school over the past few months, and for children with ADHD, anxiety, or difficulty with executive functioning, […]
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Why Kids with ADHD, LD, and Weak Executive Functions Should Learn Dictation Skills
Writing is often the most difficult academic skills for kids with ADHD, LD, and weak executive functions. Competent writing requires sustained attention, facility with language, organization, and working memory. Efficient […]
Is ADHD a Disorder of Executive Functioning?
Thought leaders in psychology such as Russell Barkley, Ph.D., and Thomas Brown, Ph.D. have identified ADHD as a disorder of executive functioning. Rather than focusing on the major symptoms of […]
Summer School with Minecraft: Building executive-functioning skills
Would your kids love to play Minecraft nonstop this summer? While I would not suggest this as a recipe for a healthy and well-balanced summer, allowing kids access to Minecraft […]
The Best Approach to Improving Executive-Functioning Skills
Do you have a teenage child, student, or client who struggles to reach his potential, showing moments of brilliance but getting overwhelmed by simple things such as getting his work […]
Three Activities for Homeschoolers to Improve Executive Functions
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, I had noticed that an increasing number of my patients are being homeschooled. In the southern part of Rhode Island where I live, the majority […]
Four Tips on How to Reward Sustained Attention and Effort
One of the methods I use to encourage myself on tasks such as writing an article or a report is to reward myself with a cup of coffee or a […]
Three Activities for Children to Improve Their Focus
During the past four months, parents have been challenged in ways never previously experienced. Parents of school-age children have needed to be both parent and teacher. One parent recently described […]
4 Executive Functions Improved by Learning to Dictate
I have seen far too many kids in my clinical practice who are really smart, thoughtful, and expressive kids who can’t get their ideas into writing. They have amazing vocabularies […]
How to Explain Slow Processing Speed to Kids: Videos for Slow Processing Speed
If you have children or students who have recently been diagnosed with slow processing speed, it is extremely important to help them understand what this means. And if you want […]
