Executive functioning coaching is a structured tutoring approach through which students learn a number of strategies to most successfully complete tasks and achieve goals. Executive functioning skills play a pivotal role in daily functioning, from domestic duties to work, school, and social interactions.
Executive functioning skills are defined as a family of interrelated, top-down cognitive processes that allow us to control our impulses and our attention. While executive functioning skills are distinct from one another, they all work together to help us control our behaviors in beneficial ways. A person who struggles with executive functioning may struggle to maintain focus, which in turn impacts their ability to meet deadlines and organize their time efficiently. These challenges will likely preclude a person from producing their best work and managing their responsibilities effectively. Executive functions are trainable, and students who struggle with these skills can be taught to plan and organize to remediate executive dysfunction.
Students who struggle with executive functioning are often diagnosed with ADHD, Autism, and other specific learning disorders. In order to address your child’s executive functioning needs, Adept engages in a thorough intake process. After a review of any neuropsychological evaluations, academic evaluations, and IEPs, each student is given an executive skills assessment to help provide direction for your child’s individualized programming.
Our working memory helps us use information we have learned in the past to solve new problems.
Also known as self control, this skill consists of the capacity to think before you act. Effective use of self control helps us make more thoughtful choices.
This skill helps us maintain attention to a situation or task in spite of disinterest, fatigue, or internal distractions.
This skill helps us manage and cope with unpleasant and difficult emotions across all environments.
These skills allow us to create a roadmap to reach a goal or to complete a task. They also involve being able to make decisions about what’s important or urgent.
Task initiation skills help us begin projects in an efficient and timely fashion.
Estimating how much time one has, how to allocate it, and how to adhere to deadlines.
Creating and maintaining systems to keep track of information and materials.
The ability to revise plans in the face of obstacles, setbacks, new information, or mistakes is an important aspect of developing resilience.
Setting a goal, following through to the completion of the goal, and remaining focused even in the face of competing interests and responsibilities.
This skill helps us cope with uncertainty, change, and performance demands so that we can thrive in stressful situations.
Metacognitive awareness helps us both evaluate and better understand the way that we think.