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ERIC Number: ED587179
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jun-13
Pages: 332
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: 978-1-4625-3531-6
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention. Third Edition
Dawson, Peg; Guare, Richard
Guilford Press
Many tens of thousands of 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 with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes 38 reproducible forms and handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. Chapters include: (1) Overview of Executive Skills; (2) Assessing Executive Skills; (3) Linking Assessment to Intervention; (4) Providing a Continuum of Services to Address the Needs of Students with Weak Executive Skills; (5) Interventions to Promote Executive Skills; (6) Specific Teaching Routines to Promote Executive Skill Development; (7) Interventions for Specific Executive Skills Domains; (8) Strategies and Guidelines for Managing Executive Skills in Children with ADHD; (9) Executive Skills in Autism (written with Colin Guare); (10) Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits; (11) Planning for Transitions; (12) Implementation and Accessibility of Executive Skills (Mara Berzins and Nicola Daykin); (13) EFS 2 The Rescue Pedagogy (Laurie Faith); and (14) Building an Executive Functioning Culture in the Classroom: How a Small Group of Teachers Changed a School (Timothy McElroy). Individual chapters contain references. An index is included. [For the Second Edition, see ED509906.]
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Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General; Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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