In Depth, Hands on Seminar on Executive Function Skills for professionals

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

 

360 Thinking Executive Function Program

An Advanced Training in Executive Function Interventions

This Executive Function skills training defines, demonstrates and practices executive function skill interventions with hands on activities. Proficiency in the use of executive function interventions at the basic level is assumed and in this workshop participants will learn and practice more in depth therapeutic interventions. This course is designed to help professionals bring their practice to the next level of competence and effectiveness.

Our 360 Thinking Program combines concepts that are at the core of executive functioning: situational and intention awareness, mimetic ideational information processing, time awareness and higher order thinking, which promote efficient and accurate completion of tasks.  Our model is based on facilitating the development of 6 key skills for students: initiation, transition, planning, time management, self-regulation and meta-cognition.  Students need to learn how to create a mental ‘dry run’ of several possible future scenarios as a basis for planning and monitoring task completion. As the steps of a task are envisioned, potential obstacles can be anticipated for students to problem solve and achieve independence.

In this practical strategies seminar we will briefly review the 360 Thinking Model of Executive Function Skills.  The seminar will then proceed to cover, at a more in depth level the practical aspects of assessment and treatment planning, and will go beyond the basics. Woven throughout the day will be case examples, IEP goals and how to formally and informally assess executive function skills. We will present many new and specific examples of therapeutic strategies to:

• Increase situational intelligence and teach students how to STOP and read the Room and effectively transition between tasks
• Teach students how to truly create mental visual imagery for the future and to perform a mental dress rehearsal to sequence actions towards a goal and hold that prospective memory in mind while they execute and self-monitor through tasks
• develop a student’s ability to use ‘if...then’ causal thinking and self-directed talk
• help students independently transition, initiate, plan, organize and control their behaviors for task completion.
• show students the process of time management, complex planning, self-regulation/pacing and temporal reasoning. While clocks, calendars and schedules help students to measure clock time they do not always reflect how a student experiences time.   Improve a student’s ability to calculate the time needed to complete tasks and self-monitor the passage of hourly and daily time.  Teach students how to break down complex tasks and assignments and then plan for, organize and initiate and complete those tasks within allotted time frames
• Improve speed of information processing

 

When:

Saturday April 9, 2016

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

9:00-2:30 Seminar. A Box Lunch will be Provided.

Cost:

Early Bird Registration Before March 1st: $190.00

After March 1st: $205.00

Fee Includes Morning Coffee/Light Refreshment, Box Lunch, Course Booklet and Hands On Materials

 

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Kristen Jacobsen, MS CCC-SLP

Co-Director at Cognitive Connections LLP,  Kristen has co-authored the innovative 360 Thinking approach to facilitate executive functioning skills. Kristen has also co-authored executive function articles and educational  products, including the Academic Planner and Tracknets, as well as the Time Tracker Program and Get Ready*Do*Done instructional approach. Kristen provides trainings and workshops for teachers to deliver effective executive function based instruction that can reach all learners in their classrooms.
 

 

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