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By Peg Dawson, Richard Guare

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Table of 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 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?

About the Author

Peg Dawson, EdD, is a staff psychologist at the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She has worked with children and adults with learning and attention difficulties for more than 25 years. Richard Guare, PhD, is Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders. In addition to working as a clinician, he is an experienced educator who has taught university courses in child neuropsychology and communication disorders. Together, Drs. Dawson and Guare are the coathors of Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, a practical guide for school professionals.

Reviews

"Do you feel stymied by your child's failure to live up to his or her potential? Have you run out of ideas about how to handle the situation? Look no further/m-/this fascinating and readable book is packed full of useful ideas that will help you understand what the problem is and how you can help. It presents practical and proven techniques based on rigorous scientific research." - Peter Farrell, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; past president, International School Psychology Association "The best parent resource on executive skills that I have seen. As a parent of three children, one of whom has learning disabilities, and as a special education associate who works in the classroom, I highly recommend this book. It shows there is hope for children who are struggling, and offers practical, detailed advice." - L. Libbey, parent, Hampton, New Hampshire, USA "Filled with real-world examples and real-world solutions, this easy-to-read book is the first comprehensive guide to the management of children's executive skills. It gets to the heart of the matter, offering both parents and teachers accessible and highly efficient means to cope with a gamut of obstacles faced by children of all ages and abilities." - Kristina Mecelicaite, special education coordinator, North Central Charter Essential School, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA "Drs. Dawson and Guare translate cutting-edge research into meaningful, practical, well-organized, and easy-to-implement strategies that parents can use to enhance a child's natural executive abilities. This brilliant book is by far the best on the topic that I have read to date." - Russell A. Barkley, author of Taking Charge of ADHD "If you've ever wondered why your child struggles academically or behaviorally - despite having 'the right stuff' to succeed - this book is essential reading. Drs. Dawson and Guare explain the importance of executive skills and provide science-based strategies that empower you to start helping your child today." - Sam Goldstein, coauthor of Raising Resilient Children "For all parents who wonder why their children struggle academically or behaviorally - despite having 'the right stuff' to succeed - this book is essential reading. Executive skills are widely recognized as critical to children's academic, social, and interpersonal functioning. Dawson and Guare clearly explain the importance of executive skills and provide a reasoned set of strategies that empower parents to foster these key capabilities in their children. Educators, too, will find this book a welcome contribution." - Sam Goldstein, Research Professor of Psychology, George Mason University, USA

The audio version of 2009's Smart but Scattered by the coauthors of Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents posits that the reason that intelligent, motivated youngsters succeed at certain things (e.g., soccer) but struggle with others (e.g., cleaning their rooms) relates to executive function-those cognitive processes that regulate delayed gratification, planning, working memory, and more. Embedded PDFs contain diagnostic components to help parents assess any lopsidedness in their children's executive functions; once problems are identified and placed within the rubric of the parents' own cognitive skills, realistic expectations can be put into play. -Susan Ericksen provides a clear, sympathetic reading. The concerned Tough presents a condensation of the issues facing contemporary American educators. Though the material is well written, listeners will soon tire of track after track of different schools' innovations and approaches. Tough recounts the struggles and achievements of giant school systems (e.g., Chicago's), elite institutions, and innovators like YAP (Youth Advocate Programs), which creates "substitute or supplemental family structures for children who don't have them." Other than advocating attachment parenting, Tough's focus is more on research and funding, obscuring identification of ways parents can help children to develop the titular grit and character. Dan John Miller provides an effective reading. VERDICT Dawson and Guare's interesting work attempts to strike a balance between providing informational background and acting as a how-to manual; the result is not enough of either. This title is best suited to motivated, college-educated readers. Listeners interested in a survey course about the plight of the educational system can do no better than Tough's book, but caveat emptor-it is not a how-to volume.-Douglas C. Lord, Connecticut State Lib., Middletown (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.