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8 Key Executive Functions

Published on Jul 13, 2017

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8 Key Executive Functions

Executive functions let people plan, organize and complete tasks.  
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Executive functions

are skills everyone uses to organize and act on information. 
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Executive Functioning

Issues can affect your child everyday life. 
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If your kid has executive functioning issues

They may struggle with or all of the following skills.
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Impulse Control

Helps your child think before acting. 
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Impulse control

They might blurt out inappropriate things. 
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Impulse Control

Kid's are more likely to engage in risky behavior. 
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Impulse Control

Being able to block out surrounding stimuli. 
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Emotional Control

Helps your child keep their feelings in check. 
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Emotional Control

Children  with weak emotional control often overreact. 
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Emotional Control

Kid's have trouble dealing with criticism and regrouping when something goes wrong. 
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Emotional Control

Your child's brain is assigning an importance and magnitude. 

Flexible Thinking

Allows your child to adjust to the unexpected. 
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Flexible Thinking

Kid's with “rigid” thinking don’t roll with the punches. 
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Flexible Thinking

Kid's get frustrated if asked to think about something from a different angle. 
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Flexible Thinking

Kid can learn to observe and adate to changes in their environment 

Working Memory

Allows your kid to keep key information in their mind. 
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Working Memory

Trouble remembering directions. 

Working Memory

Being able to visionalize the information learned. 
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Self- Monitoring

Allows your child to evaluate how their doing. 

Self- Monitoring

They'll be surprised by a bad grade or negative feedback. 

Self- Monitoring

Evaluating the information moment to moment. 
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Planning and Prioritizing

Helps your child decide on a goal and a plan to meet it.  
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Planning and Prioritizing

Your child may not know which parts of a project are most important. 
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Planning and Prioritizing

Directing their energy with goals in right order of importance. 

Task Initiation

Helps your child take action and get started. 

Task Initiation

Your child may freeze up because they have no idea where to begin. 
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Task Initiation

Controlling their negative feeling and doing something positive. 
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Organization

Lets your child keep track of things physically and mentally. 
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Organization

Your child can lose their train of thought-as well as their cell phone and homework. 
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Organization

Recover their mental picture by mainaining their focus. 

Like all skills

Executive Functioning can be strengthened. 
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