A Hands on Executive Function Skills Workshop!

Learn it on Saturday...Implement it Monday Morning!

  

This is a Practical Strategies Seminar!

 In this hands on workshop with your registration fee you will receive all the materials needed to have a fresh organized start to the academic year and to support a student in reaching independent executive function skills.

 

Parents, teachers and professionals will gain a solid understanding of what the executive function skills are and how they impact a student’s academic and personal performance. Learn many practical strategies to improve motivation and task initiation; increase awareness of and ability to set reasonable goals; teach time management skills for prioritizing, organizing and completing homework, long term projects and personal tasks. Coach students to think in an organized way and encourage self-initiative to manage homework and personal belongings.

Developing a "Memory for the Future" is important for goal setting! Students need to know the goal and then use self initiated organizational strategies to achieve their goals. Improve a student's awareness skills so they can  "read a room"; and use their  reasoning skills to "stop, think and create" an appropriate action plan with anticipated possible outcomes. 

 

To See and Sense the Passage of Time is a fundamental skill that students who tend to procrastinate need to develop! Learn how to help them accurately and effortlessly estimate how long tasks will take, change or maintain their pace, and carry out routines and tasks within allotted time frames.  Help students adopt a mindful approach to homework and to develop personalized study habits.

 

Managing the Multiples is a reality our kids face everyday!  Learn how to help students manage homework, projects,  extracurricular and after school activities....and still find some down time! Support students through the process of recording, bringing home, completing and returning assignments with simple routines that can lead to independence.     

 

Organize their Homework Space and Personal Belongings:  Learn how to create a positive and productive environment for homework with fundamental rules that can get and keep students organized beyond the first week of September. Help students to create and own strategies to track and organize their materials.  

 

When:

Saturday September 13, 2014

8:30-9:00am Registration. Coffee will be served.

9:00-1:30 Seminar. A Box Lunch will be Provided.

Cost: $205.00

Fee Includes Morning Coffee/Light Refreshment, Box Lunch, Course Booklet and The Executive Function Tool Kit for the Handson Workshop: Clock, Powerclock, Tracknets, and more!

 

Register Now! 

 

Who Should Attend

Parents of children who need additional strategies to be organized and effectively manage their time, tasks and materials.  

Parents of children who have  learning challenges with associated executive function based weaknesses.     

Teachers who want to learn how to implement functional strategies into their classrooms which will foster the development of the executive function skills in their students.    

Professionals  who work with children and adolescents who struggle to initiate, to be flexible in their thinking, to execute and complete tasks successfully and who need to provide their patients and families with practical strategies. 

Strategies will be given to address the needs of school aged children.  Multiple examples for younger and older children will be given.  It is not recommended that children or teens attend.

CEUs/PDPs are not offered for this seminar; however upon request participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance and Self Assessment of Learner Objectives. As a third party source of documentation this will verify the number of hours the certificate holder spent as a learner throughout the activity.

Speech and Language Pathologists: Cognitive Connections is not an ASHA CEU provider. However, you can earn ASHA CEUs for this by following the ASHA CEU guidelines. Write a critical review of the experience including ways in which newly acquired skills and knowledge will be incorporated into practice. For more information: http://www.asha.org/ce/self-direct/istudy.html