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The Resource Smart but scattered : the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential, Peg Dawson, Richard Guare

Smart but scattered : the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential, Peg Dawson, Richard Guare

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Smart but scattered : the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential
Title
Smart but scattered
Title remainder
the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential
Statement of responsibility
Peg Dawson, Richard Guare
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
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Dawson, Peg
Dewey number
649/.1526
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HQ755.8
LC item number
.D39 2009
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Guare, Richard
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Parenting
  • Executive ability in children
  • Children
  • Child development
  • Parent and child
Label
Smart but scattered : the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential, Peg Dawson, Richard Guare
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index
Contents
Introduction -- Part I: What makes your child smart but scattered -- How did such a smart kid end up so scattered? -- Identifying your child's strengths and weaknesses -- How your own executive skill strengths and weaknesses matter -- Matching the child to the task -- Part II: Laying a foundation that can help -- Ten principles for improving your child's executive skills -- Modifying the environment : A is for antecedent -- Teaching executive skills directly : B is for behavior -- Motivating your child to learn and use executive skills : C is for consequence -- Part III: Putting it all together -- Advance organizer -- Ready-made plans for teaching your child to complete daily routines -- Building response inhibition -- Enhancing working memory -- Improving emotional control -- Strengthening sustained attention -- Teaching task initiation -- Promoting planning and prioritizing -- Fostering organization -- Instilling time management -- Encouraging flexibility -- Increasing goal-directed persistence -- Cultivating metacognition -- When what you do is not enough -- Working with the school -- What's ahead?
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
vi, 314 p.
Isbn
9781593859879
Isbn Type
(hardcover : alk. paper)
Lccn
2008026078
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocn223847372
  • 587366
Label
Smart but scattered : the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential, Peg Dawson, Richard Guare
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index
Contents
Introduction -- Part I: What makes your child smart but scattered -- How did such a smart kid end up so scattered? -- Identifying your child's strengths and weaknesses -- How your own executive skill strengths and weaknesses matter -- Matching the child to the task -- Part II: Laying a foundation that can help -- Ten principles for improving your child's executive skills -- Modifying the environment : A is for antecedent -- Teaching executive skills directly : B is for behavior -- Motivating your child to learn and use executive skills : C is for consequence -- Part III: Putting it all together -- Advance organizer -- Ready-made plans for teaching your child to complete daily routines -- Building response inhibition -- Enhancing working memory -- Improving emotional control -- Strengthening sustained attention -- Teaching task initiation -- Promoting planning and prioritizing -- Fostering organization -- Instilling time management -- Encouraging flexibility -- Increasing goal-directed persistence -- Cultivating metacognition -- When what you do is not enough -- Working with the school -- What's ahead?
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
vi, 314 p.
Isbn
9781593859879
Isbn Type
(hardcover : alk. paper)
Lccn
2008026078
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocn223847372
  • 587366

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