Smart but Scattered: Effective EF Strategies to Empower Children to Thrive Emotionally, Socially, and Academically

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Peg Dawson, EdD, NCSP, is a school psychologist and for over 20 years has worked at the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she specializes in the assessment of children and adults with learning and attention disorders. She is co-author of the bestselling books on executive dysfunction, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: 2nd Edition (Guilford, 2010), Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009) and Smart but Scattered Teens (Guilford, 2013).

Peg is a past editor of Communiqué, the newsletter of the National Association of School Psychologists, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, including retention, ability grouping, reading disorders, attention disorders, the sleep problems of adolescents, the use of interviews in the assessment process, and homework.

Peg has many years of organizational experience at the state, national and international levels and served in many capacities, including president of the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and the International School Psychology Association.She has also participated in many of NASP’s leadership initiatives, including the Futures Conference and the development of both the second and third Blueprint for the Training and Practice of School Psychology. She is the 2006 recipient of NASP’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Peg received her doctorate in school/child clinical psychology from the University of Virginia.

 

Divulgation de l'identité du conférencier :

Financial: Margaret (Peg) Dawson is an author for Guilford Press and receives royalties. She is an author for Amacon publishers and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Margaret (Peg) Dawson has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectifs

1. Assess the relationship between the executive skills and brain development/function in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
2. Propose strategies to accommodate and strengthen weak planning and organizational skill, to improve client level of functioning.
3. Appraise assessment tools used to identify deficits in executive functioning to better inform your choice of treatment interventions.
4. Determine how executive skills impact performance and activities of daily living at home and school for the purpose of client psychoeducation.
5. Utilize environmental modification strategies to support deficits in executive skills thus improving treatment outcomes.
6. Implement strategies that transition children from being externally prompted to internally regulated.

Aperçu

• Underlying theory
• Brain function and child development
• Key concepts about executive skills
• Foundational vs. advanced EF skills
• Case examples: Goal-directed persistence

• Parent/teacher/student interviews
• Behavior rating scales
• Observations
• Informal assessment
• Formal assessment

• When and how to make environmental modifications
• How to teach executive skills strategies to children
• The way it is worded it does not make sense
• How to build motivation when skills are difficult

• How to:
  • Create the perfect plan to enhance child’s natural abilities
  • Match the skill to child’s developmental level
  • Use the child’s innate drive for mastery and control
  • Effortful tasks and ways to make tasks less difficult
  • Incentives that augment instruction
  • Provide information without being the direct support
  • Transfer responsibility to student
  • Limites de la recherche et risques potentiels

Public cible

• Conseillers
• Travailleurs sociaux
• Psychologues
• Thérapeutes
• Thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux
• Orthophonistes
• Enseignants
• School Guidance Counselors
• Gestionnaires de cas
• Infirmières
• Administrateurs scolaires
• Educational Paraprofessionals
• Ergothérapeutes
• Assistants en ergothérapie
• Other Helping Professionals Who Work with Children

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