Executive function skills are the mental processes that help us plan, organize, manage, and complete tasks. They include abilities such as:
- Planning: Developing a strategy before starting a task.
- Organization: Arranging and keeping track of materials and information.
- Time management: Using time efficiently and meeting deadlines.
- Working memory: Remembering and using information while working on a task.
- Metacognition: Being aware of one’s own thinking and learning process.
- Self-control: Regulating one’s emotions, impulses, and actions.
- Attention: Focusing on relevant information and ignoring distractions.
- Flexibility: Adapting to changing situations and expectations.
- Perseverance: Persisting in the face of challenges and setbacks.
- Task initiation: Starting a task without procrastination or hesitation.
Executive functioning skills are essential for learning, working, and living. They help us achieve our goals, solve problems, and cope with challenges. Executive functioning skills develop throughout childhood and adolescence and can be improved with practice and support. My services surrounding Executive Functioning Services are primarily developing and implementing improvement strategies for healthy routines. Such strategies include creating visual schedules and interventions to assist learn and use a routine.
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