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FOR FURTHER READING
- Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential, by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
- Executive Function in Education: From Theory to Practice, by Dr. Lynn Meltzer
- Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom, by Dr. Lynn Meltzer
- Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention, by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
- Executive Function in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Improving Performance and Enhancing Skills for All Students, by Christopher Kaufman
- Late, Lost and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning, by Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Laurie C. Dietzel
- Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential, by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
- Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits, by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
- Executive function "Dysfunction" by Rebecca Moyes
- Attention, Memory, and Executive Function, by G. Reid Lyon and Norman A. Krasnegor
- Train your Brain for Success: A Teanagers Guide to Executive Functions by Dr. R. Kulman
ONLINE RESOURCES
- An attractive and comprehensive e-book on executive functions in school:
https://www.understood.org/~/media/images/categorized/ebooks/executivefunction101ebook.pdf
- Here you can download activity guides for practicing executive function skills from infancy to adolescence:
- An online training module ofon executive function for caregivers:
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/training-module-executive-function/
- SMARTS: research based executive function building curriculum:
- A list of tools to compensate for executive function difficulties:
https://eftoolkit.wikispaces.com/Resources+for+Executive+Functions
- Two comprehensive lists of apps to help with planning and organization that mayu be particularly usefull for older children with executive function difficulties:
http://www.neurodevelop.com/Executive_Functioning_Resources_for_Professionals#EF Apps
- The list of board games that may help develop executive functions in children:
