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Improving Self-Regulation and Executive Functioning Skills in Primary School Children in a Remote Australian Aboriginal Community: A Pilot Study of the Alert Program®
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Wagner, Bree; Olson, Heather Carmichael; Symons, Martyn; Mazzucchelli, Trevor G.; Jirikowic, Tracy; Latimer, Jane; Watkins, Rochelle; Cross, Donna; Boulton, John; Wright, Edie; Carter, Maureen; Bruce, Kaashifah; Cherel, Sue; Fitzpatrick, James – Australian Journal of Education, 2019
Self-regulation and executive functioning impairments are common in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Given the high rates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder identified amongst children living in the remote Fitzroy Valley region of Western Australia, the Alert Program® was identified as a culturally safe intervention for use in local…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Skill Development, Elementary School Students
RE-AIM Evaluation of a Teacher-Delivered Programme to Improve the Self-Regulation of Children Attending Australian Aboriginal Community Primary Schools
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Wagner, Bree; Cross, Donna; Adams, Emma; Symons, Martyn; Mazzucchelli, Trevor G.; Watkins, Rochelle; Wright, Edie; Latimer, Jane; Carapetis, Jonathan; Boulton, John; Fitzpatrick, James P. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2020
Studies in north-western Australia Aboriginal communities identified executive functioning and behavioural regulation as significant issues for children. Exposure to alcohol prenatally and adverse childhood experiences are known risk factors for impaired self-regulation and executive function, these risk factors being present in remote…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Indigenous Populations, Self Control, Executive Function