Executive Dysfunction
How to Sharpen Executive Functions: Activities to Hone Brain Skills
Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to...
Executive Dysfunction
It’s Easy to Hover Over a Child with Executive Function Deficits. Don’t.
Executive functioning might be a key part of human behavior, but ADHD can make it tricky...
Executive Dysfunction
Treatments for Weak Executive Functions
Parents, add these strategies to your repertoire: Therapies, reward systems, and...
Executive Dysfunction
What Is Executive Function? 7 Deficits Tied to ADHD
What is executive function? The cognitive skills that help us plan, prioritize, and...
Executive Dysfunction
Your Brain’s GPS Is Glitchy: Why Working Memory Fails and How to Bolster It
Verbal and non-verbal working memory are two of your seven executive functions. They are...
Executive Dysfunction
The Adult ADHD Mind: Executive Function Connections
A chef who can't find her ingredients. An orchestra trying to play without a conductor....
Executive Dysfunction
What Is Executive Dysfunction?
Executive function skills enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and...
Executive Dysfunction
Executive Dysfunction, Explained!
Executive dysfunction is a brain-based impairment that impacts a person's ability to...
Executive Dysfunction
What Parents Misunderstand About Executive Function
A 7-year-old with ADHD has the executive functioning skills of a 4- or 5-year-old. A...
Executive Functions
The Testing Ground for Executive Functions? Sixth Grade
Middle school is hell for many kids. Aside from social struggles, many begin to miss...
Symptom Tests
[Self-Test] Could Your Child Have an Executive Function Deficit?
Up to 90% of kids with ADHD have executive function deficits. Take this symptom self-test...
Executive Functions
The Educator’s Guide to Executive Functions: How to Understand and Support Students in Need
Executive functioning develops more slowly in students with ADHD. Teachers may notice...
Executive Functions
Bridging Executive Function Gaps in Middle School: ADHD Strategies for Distance Learning
Executive functions strain and suffer in middle school as workloads increase and...
Symptom Tests
Do You Really Know the Signs of Executive Function Disorder (EFD)?
You know that executive function deficits make it difficult to plan, organize, and...
ADHD Myths & Facts
What Is ADHD? Definition, Myths & Truth
Our understanding of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has grown significantly...
Executive Functions
How to Activate Your Child’s ADHD Brain for Distance Learning
Weak executive functions sabotage our kids’ efforts to organize, plan ahead, and make...
Teens with ADHD
Learn to Scaffold: Build Your Teen’s Executive Functions All Year Long
Your teen is forging his own identity and fighting to stand on his own two feet. But he’s...
Executive Functions
ADHD & the Art of Persistence: Teaching Goal-Setting Skills
Does delayed executive function maturity make it hard for your child to achieve his...
Typical ADHD Behaviors
The Mystery of ADHD Motivation, Solved
Why do adults and children with ADHD or ADD have strong motivation and executive function...
Executive Dysfunction
How to Treat Executive Function Disorder
Learn about the therapies, reward systems, and classroom accommodations built to...