High-level cognitive skills help middle and high school students manage their emotions, behaviors, and responsibilities.

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Source: "Brain Clock"/bzztbomb/CC BY-NC 2.0 For at least a decade I have been trying to teach my daughter Sam “executive functioning.” For at least a decade she has been failing to learn—to learn how ...

NYU Langone’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers Combined Emphasis in Empirically Supported Assessment ...

I specialize in ADHD, Autism, and executive functioning evaluations for children, adolescents, college students, and adults who need formal documentation for educational or workplace accommodations.

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...

Many psychiatric disorders are linked to altered functioning of brain networks that drive reward processing and executive functions like making decisions, taking risks, planning, and memory. But a ...

New psychology research indicates that multilingual children may have enhanced executive function and perspective taking skills. Encouraging bilingualism at home can have many cognitive benefits, ...

Executive dysfunction can occur with ADHD. Some ways you can manage it include keeping tasks visible, breaking up tasks, and setting alarms for time-based events. Executive dysfunction is a group of ...