Recently, I spoke at a wonderful Saturday-morning-gathering of parents and educators. I spoke on the Learning Brain Networks. In this three-part blog post series, I share with you, my blog readers, my notes for that presentation. A 31-year-old … Continue reading →
It’s the half way through the college semester and you have things you must do. Here’s your to-do list: Make a list of each of your classes and find out your current grade for each class. Write this down so … Continue reading →
Executive Functions Effort: Regulating alertness, sustaining effort, and processing speed. Effort refers to regulating how alert you are for a given task. Your mind helps you stay alert and maintain the right amount of effort for the task while performing … Continue reading →
Executive Functions Focus: Focusing, sustaining and shifting attention to tasks. This executive function plays a major role in academics. Take for example the task of reading. Reading requires that we stop paying attention to something else like the furry puppy … Continue reading →
Understanding the ADD syndrome is the first step to understand why you do what you do and how to get on with your goals in life. Remember this: Executive function means the job of managing behavior and thoughts. This job … Continue reading →
Executive function skills are the processes in our mind that manage and monitor our behavior and thoughts. Thomas E. Brown’s six-cluster arrangement helps explain a deficit (or simply inefficiency) in our executive function skills,commonly referred to as ADHD. Dr. … Continue reading →
I’ve worked with children with ADHD before ADHD became a household word. Most often, the students I worked with were undiagnosed. I didn’t know what to do with those kids or why they behaved the way they did. I continually … Continue reading →