Ages: Birth-18

This second edition is a comprehensive update to the original book. It updates our understanding of executive dysfunction (EDF) and provides a clear structure evaluating and treating EDF. New chapters clarify executive dysfunction as it complicates the academic, social, and communication performance of children with a wide range of disorders. Four new chapters address the problem of how to do executive function (EF) therapy with protocols, rationales, goals, and methods for:

• building awareness,
• engineering the environment to support EF skills,
• developing and teaching compensatory strategies, and
• engaging in language therapy to support reasoning skills.

This book provides:

• A framework for the evaluation of EFs and a survey of assessment tools
• Ready-to-use diagnostic questions, informal evaluation, and observation protocols
• A helpful Treatment Wheel graphic, organizing the range of treatment options, from external modifications and strategies to direct intervention for EDF and reasoning deficits
• Sample intervention goals

208 pages  8.5 x 11, softcover ©2017