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Dawson, Peg.
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Executive ability in children.
Children -- Life skills guides.
Child development.
Parent and child.
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Dawson, Peg.
Parenting.
Executive ability in children.
Children -- Life skills guides.
Child development.
Parent and child.
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Smart but scattered : the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential / Peg Dawson, Richard Guare.
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Dawson, Peg.
Guilford Press, c2009.
Call #:
649
.152
D272s
Subjects
Parenting.
Executive ability in children.
Children -- Life skills guides.
Child development.
Parent and child.
ISBN:
9781593854454 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781593859879 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description:
vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: What makes your child smart but scattered -- How did such a smart kid end up so scattered? -- Identifying your child's strengths and weaknesses -- How your own executive skill strengths and weaknesses matter -- Matching the child to the task -- Part II: Laying a foundation that can help -- Ten principles for improving your child's executive skills -- Modifying the environment : A is for antecedent -- Teaching executive skills directly : B is for behavior -- Motivating your child to learn and use executive skills : C is for consequence -- Part III: Putting it all together -- Advance organizer -- Ready-made plans for teaching your child to complete daily routines -- Building response inhibition -- Enhancing working memory -- Improving emotional control -- Strengthening sustained attention -- Teaching task initiation -- Promoting, planning and prioritizing -- Fostering organization -- Instilling time management -- Encouraging flexibility -- Increasing goal-directed persistence -- Cultivating metacognition -- When what you do is not enough -- Working with the school -- What's ahead?
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Guare, Richard.
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