Today's resource comes from Harvard University. Here is a 16 page ebooklet that gives ideas for activities therapists, parents, and teachers can do with kids ages 6 months to adolescents. Activities Guide: Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence
This set of task cards focuses on the executive functioning skill of self-regulation. As an activity, this resource helps students learn, discuss, and practice self-regulation as it relates to executive functioning. Self-regulation refers to our ability to manage our emotions in the context of completing necessary task
Emotional regulation and executive function are connected in more ways than one. Emotions, self-awareness and self-monitoring skills impact function.
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This resource on executive function tests includes descriptions of formal and informal executive function tests for kids and teens.
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Learning how to regulate our emotions is a critical skill that can help us in all areas of our life. We cannot control things that happen to us or the actions of others, but we can learn strategies...
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These self regulation strategies support emotional and behavioral needs at home, in the classroom, and in occupational therapy sessions.
Individualized education programs combine special occupation, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and counseling. Once the condition of an individual has been ascertained, a personalized program is developed to help the child with all of their daily and academic concerns. This can be even more beneficial as these executive functioning skills have several everyday life examples. The ... Read more
Activities for teens with OCD should focus on reducing anxiety, building coping skills, and strengthening self-regulation. And medication should not be the first line of defense. Exposure therapy, mindfulness, and structured routines help retrain the brain and improve behavior over time. Parenting a teen with OCD requires patience and the right tools to support progress. Want science-backed strategies and natural solutions? Access this valuable parenting guide at www.drroseann.com.
Self regulation is key when your child’s BIG emotions and reactive behaviors create household stress. This easy-to-use guide offers practical, science-backed solutions to help build stress tolerance and resilience while cultivating peace at home. Engage in mindfulness exercises that enhance focus and productivity for your family. Ready to enhance your parenting skills and enrich your parent-child relationship? Download your free guide at www.drroseann.com today.
Learning Works for Kids is launching a whole bunch of new online self guided classes for kids to engage in! The classes are video games like Minecraft that also incorporate learning skills such as flexibility, planning, time management and more. If you have a child interested in video games check out https://learningworksforkids.thinkific.com/
Use these lessons to get kids' self-control skills in shape! Activities focus on understanding self-control, impulse control, stopping and thinking to make a decision, waiting our turn, following rules and directions, staying motivated, doing our best work, managing emotions, using coping strategies...
Give your child’s anxiety long-lasting relief through non-invasive neurofeedback treatments fully tailored and safe. Learn about its effectiveness and how it helps regulate noisy brain waves.
Six brain-based strategies to help kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder build confidence, engagement, and focus.
Can videogames and screen time help kids and families reduce stress and cultivate self-regulation— or does screen time inevitably stress us out? It’s a question I’ve been wrestling with for years…