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Facing the Frontal Lobe: Strategies to Support Executive Function Skills Jill D. Kuzma, M.A., CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathologist Social/Emotional Teacher August 2012 1 August 2012 2 August 2012 3 August 2012 4 August 2012 5 August 2012 6 August 2012 7 Do you have Executive Function skills? August 2012 8 How did you get here today on time? Your family wants to eat dinner at 6 and you’re the cook: How do you get the food on the table in time? Someone cuts you off in a traffic lane (and you have your child in the car): What keeps you from yelling “#**#!#%#!!”? The students in the next classroom are playing a loud game while you writing an IEP, but you don’t hear it. Why? You accidentally bump into someone and apologize. Why? Questions to consider… What are executive function skills and how do selected executive function processes affect school success? How can educators begin to understand and informally assess students’ executive function processes? How can teachers address the needs of students with executive function weaknesses to both accommodate and teach necessary lacking skills? August 2012 9 Overview of the Day… August 2012 10 Define Executive Function Skills: Emotional and Cognitive Aspects Jill’s Interpretation of EF for “school-folk” – 5 Areas Brain Food How do EF skills impact our students? Assessing Executive Function Skills (as relevant to the school-setting and the role of educators) Formal Rating Scales Informal Interviews guidelines for Observations Supporting Executive Function Needs in Learners Emotional Control needs Focus and Attention needs Planning needs Working Memory needs Organization needs Program support and structure ideas What are Executive Function Skills? August 2012 11 Defining EF Conscious control of what we think and do Enables self-regulation of one’s own social actions and display of emotions Coordinates goal-setting with the planning required to accomplish the goal or task (organizing, sequence,