Executive Functioning Skills
Assignment Calendar
Course Description
Executive Functioning Skills:
Executive function skills are a set of processes or brain based abilities that involve managing oneself (behavior and resources) in order to achieve their goals (Smyth-Myles, 2016). LD-Online states that executive function is "an umbrella term for neurologically based skills involving mental control and self-regulation."
Activation and Initiation
- PowerPoint Presentation on Activation and Initiation
- Activation and Initiation (Informative handout with hyperlinks, resources, and apps)
Focusing and Sustaining Attention
- PowerPoint Presentation on Focusing and Sustaining Attention
- Focusing and Sustaining Attention (Informative handout with hyperlinks, resources, and apps)
Organization
- PowerPoint Presentation on Organization
- Organization(Informative handout with hyperlinks, resources, and apps)
Prioritization
- PowerPoint Presentation on Prioritization
- Prioritization(Informative handout with hyperlinks, resources, and apps)
Processing Speed
- PowerPoint Presentation on Processing Speed
- Processing Speed(Informative handout with hyperlinks, resources, and apps)
Working Memory
- PowerPoint Presentation on Working Memory
- Working Memory(Informative handout with hyperlinks, resources, and apps)