Margaret Dawson – Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School: Smart but Scattered

Margaret Dawson – Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School: Smart but Scattered

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Description

Faculty:
Margaret Dawson
Duration:
6 Hours 25 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Feb 26, 2020

Description

Outline

Executive skills

  • Underlying theory
  • Executive skills in the context of brain function and child development
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

There is an assessment of executive skills.

  • Parent/teacher/student interviews
  • Behavior rating scales
  • Observations
  • Informal assessment
  • Formal assessment

Intervention strategies are used.

  • Environmental modifications to reduce the impact of weak executive skills
  • Teaching strategies to help children develop/improve executive functioning
  • Using incentives to help practice or use skills that are difficult

There are keys to effective intervention design.

  • Match the child’s developmental level
  • Use the child’s innate drive for mastery and control
  • Begin with environmental modifications
  • Effortful tasks and ways to make them less difficult
  • Use incentives to augment instruction
  • Provide the minimum support necessary
  • Apply supports and interventions until the child achieves mastery or success
  • Gradually fade supports, supervision, and incentives

An effective strategy for building executive skills is coaching.

  • Description of 2-stage process
  • Coaching with younger children
  • Clinical case examples
  • Research studies supporting the efficacy of coaching

Faculty

Margaret Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP's Profile

Margaret Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP Related seminars and products: 11


An Ed.D., NCSP. She works at the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders in New Hampshire, where she specializes in the assessment of children and adults with learning and attention disorders. She is a co-author of the books. Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents is the second edition. Guilford, 2010) Smart but scattered. (Guilford, 2009). Teens are smart but scattered. The article is titled (Guilford, 2013).

Peg was an editor. This is a communication. Retention, ability grouping, reading disorders, attention disorders, the sleep problems of adolescents, the use of interviews in the assessment process, and homework are just a few of the topics that have been covered in the newsletter of the National Association of School Psychologists.

She has served in many capacities, including president of the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the International School Psychology Association. She was the 2006 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. She received her PhD in school/child clinical psychology from the University of Virginia.

Speaker disclosures.

Margaret (Peg) Dawson is an author and gets royalties. She is an author for Amacon publishers. She is paid by PESI, Inc.

Margaret (Peg) Dawson has no relevant non-financial relationships.


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