Smart but scattered : the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential
Publication Information
New York : Guilford Press, c2009.
Physical Description
vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: What makes your child smart but scattered
- How did such a smart kid end up so scattered?
- Identifying your child's strengths and weaknesses
- How your own executive skill strengths and weaknesses matter
- Matching the child to the task
- Part II: Laying a foundation that can help
- Ten principles for improving your child's executive skills
- Modifying the environment : A is for antecedent
- Teaching executive skills directly : B is for behavior
- Motivating your child to learn and use executive skills : C is for consequence
- Part III: Putting it all together
- Advance organizer
- Ready-made plans for teaching your child to complete daily routines
- Building response inhibition
- Enhancing working memory
- Improving emotional control
- Strengthening sustained attention
- Teaching task initiation
- Promoting planning and prioritizing
- Fostering organization
- Instilling time management
- Encouraging flexibility
- Increasing goal-directed persistence
- Cultivating metacognition
- When what you do is not enough
- Working with the school
- What's ahead?