Basketball is one of the best sports for practicing and improving executive function skills. Not only is it popular, it’s a complex game that requires physical coordination and mental agility. […]

Modern educators do not deny that thinking skills, social skills, and emotional skills play a role in children’s learning. Executive functions are particularly important to the education of children with […]

An interest in sports can be an important part of a child’s identity. Kids wear the numbers and clothing of their favorite players and teams. They root for those teams […]

Football is arguably the most popular sport in the United States. Americans watch more football on TV than any other sport. This means that many kids sit with their families […]

Soccer has become one of the most popular games in the United States among kids. This has been helped along by the success of our national teams, with the U.S. […]

Can playing video games and using technologies produce a sense of well-being and meaningful satisfaction for kids?

21st-Century technology has the potential to enrich the quality of people’s lives, not […]

Wouldn’t it be great if we could cure ADHD with a video game or an app? If we could prescribe an activity, board game, or physical exercise for the treatment […]

Kids with slow processing speed are often identified by their teachers and parents as kids who just don’t try as hard. This is understandable. Kids with slow processing speed appear […]

How does processing speed impact academic achievement?

Students with slow processing speed often cannot keep up with their peers on math minutes, struggle to take complete notes, are likely to […]

As a teacher you may have observed that while many kids struggle with working memory, your students with executive functioning difficulties have particularly weak working memory skills.

Working memory sub-skills […]