The #1 Skill Your Child Needs to be Successful
Executive functioning. Such a fancy buzzword! It’s often thrown around when experts are talking about your child’s development.
Helping your Child Follow Directions in 5 Easy Steps (Part II)
The first thing to consider is whether your child actually can follow directions. Often children struggling with their working memory are unable to follow rapid-fire, unrelated instructions.
4 Strategies to Increase your Child's Attention
Have you noticed that everyone’s attention span is slowly disappearing? It’s no surprise that this is one area of weakness I notice in a lot of the children with autism who come see me in my practice.
Distractors are everyone, so I find that teaching children to sustain attention is critical to long-term learning success.
When you enhance this executive functioning skill, you can expect to see rapid improvements across all domains of your child’s learning.
My Child isn't Listening: How working memory could be to blame (Part I)
Last week I got a phone call from a concerned parent. Her 4-year-old daughter, Sophia, was having trouble following directions in the classroom.
This mom felt frustrated with the school because she knew deep down that her daughter wasn’t a bad child. She tried to prepare Sophia for school every morning by reminding her to listen to her teachers and do a good job. But every day after school the teachers reported the same problems.
When I see a child like Sophia, who isn’t able to keep up with the class, my first thought is a working memory deficit.