Putting the FUN in Executive FUNctioning this summer!

For the next several weeks, we are focusing on the concept of executive functioning. If you've been in the autism/ADHD/learning disabilities world for any amount of time, this term is probably really familiar to you. It can be defined in a lot of different ways, and it can be quite confusing. 

This week I'm talking about what this term means and giving examples of challenges that fall under the three main categories of memory, planning, and inhibition.

Segment from this episode: 

Kids in class see other kids' science fair projects, book reports, that six month oral history report, whatever it may be. They see other kids that seems to be on top of this management stuff. And their desk, meanwhile, is exploding. And they did theirs the night before. And it's not typed, it's handwritten, and they don't even have all the pages together. And they didn't turn in their homework yesterday.

Kids constantly late to school because they aren't able to manage their time and attention in the morning to get up and get out the door. And there's arguing and yelling and all kinds of stuff happening at home in the morning because of their inability to regulate their time and their attention and to prioritize things

For the YouTube video, click HERE.

For the podcast episode, click HERE.

Each week for the next 4 weeks, I'm going to share fun activities that you can do with your kids/students to help improve their executive functioning skills. Stay tuned for those!