Description: This second edition is a comprehensive update to the original book. It updates our understanding of executive dysfunction (EDF) and provides a clear structure evaluating and treating EDF. New chapters clarify executive dysfunction as it complicates the academic, social, and communication performance of children with a wide range of disorders. Four new chapters address the problem of how to do executive function (EF) therapy with protocols, rationales, goals, and methods for: building awareness, engineering the environment to support EF skills, developing and teaching compensatory strategies, and engaging in language therapy to support reasoning skills. This book provides: A framework for the evaluation of EFs and a survey of assessment tools Ready-to-use diagnostic questions, informal evaluation, and observation protocols A helpful Treatment Wheel graphic, organizing the range of treatment options, from external modifications and strategies to direct intervention for EDF and reasoning deficits Sample intervention goals

Series: The Source

Author: Fahy, Jill; Richard, Gail;

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 2005

Grade: age0-18

Format: SOFTCOVER/REPRODUCIBLE

Keywords: executive functions, executive dysfunction, language disorders, learning disabilities, verbal reasoning, evaluation, treatment, self-regulation, education, Formerly LS-31713