Smart But Scattered: Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School
4/5/2017 - 4/5/2017
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Wyndham Garden Hotel Airport 6401 Veterans Memorial Blvd, Metairie, Metairie
Children who have deficient executive skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments and forget to hand in homework. They make careless mistakes, put off work until the last minute and have no sense of time urgency. Workspaces are disorganized and teachers often refer to their backpacks or lockers as “black holes.” Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Dr. Dawson, co-author of the best-selling books Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, 2nd Ed. (2010), Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009) and Smart but Scattered Teens (2013, Guilford) uses case examples along with interactive discussion to demonstrate how the executive skills manifest in daily home and school activities. Learn how to assess these skills and take home evidence-based strategies to help children and adolescents overcome executive skills weaknesses.
Leave this seminar with a set of tools that includes strategies for task/environmental modifications, skill development through cognitive/behavioral techniques and creation of incentive systems. You will be able to give teachers and parents a means for developing and improving the following:
- organization
- time management
- impulse control
- goal-directed persistence
- executive skills critical for independent functioning
Presenter:
MARGARET M. DAWSON, ED.D., NCSP
Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP, is a school psychologist and for over 20 years has worked at the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she specializes in the assessment of children and adults with learning and attention disorders. She is co-author of the best-selling books on executive dysfunction, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents; 2nd Edition (Guilford, 2010), Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009) and Smart But Scattered Teens (Guilford, 2013).
6.25 CE clock hours for LPCs and PLPCs. No NBCC credits available through LCA.
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