Executive Function in Education: From Theory to Practice
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Format: Hardcover
From: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: December 2006
From: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: December 2006
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2007-01-10
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 320
Ean: 9781593854287
Isbn: 1593854285
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2007-01-10
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 320
Ean: 9781593854287
Isbn: 1593854285
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
This uniquely integrative book brings together leading researchers and practitioners from education, neuroscience, and psychology. It presents a theoretical framework for understanding executive function difficulties together with a range of effective approaches to assessment and instruction. Coverage includes executive function processes in specific disorders--language-based learning disabilities, nonverbal learning disabilities, and autism spectrum disorders--as well as ways to support all students in developing vital skills for self-directed learning. Specific teaching methods are discussed for reading, writing, and math. Scholarly and authoritative yet highly practical, the book provides guidelines for intervening at the level of the individual child, the classroom, and the entire school.
USER REVIEWS
"This is an excellent, informative book on executive function, which is often a lot of the problem with students further on the spectrum and who are mainstreamed in school. It explains things I haven't really understood previously about executive function problems that my son deals with -- why he doesn't get started on a project, why he doesn't continue through a project and finish it to the end. Various authors contributed to this book, and so you get a psychological, physical, and educational perspective that is necessary for understanding the situation, and some very good tools to help. Also of benefit is a full explanation of the battery of tests that are used to figure out if a student has executive function problems.
I took the book with me to our son's IEP this year, and used it quite a bit to help our son's teachers understand what might be issues in the coming year.
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~ Written on 2007-12-23
I took the book with me to our son's IEP this year, and used it quite a bit to help our son's teachers understand what might be issues in the coming year.
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~ Written on 2007-12-23
"As a psychologist with 30 years experience, I have been focusing on issues of attention, memory and cognition, as it relates to self esteeme, performance, and the development of emotional difficulties. The text is more focused on school which is where we developed and where we met our most difficult challenges in performance. It is exciting to see that educators are doing more to help children who are between the special education criterion and the kids who don't have difficulty. It is also important to understand the process of learning so we can better teach to the student rather than the student learning how we teach! This book can help open the educators doors to higher learning."
~ Written on 2007-05-28
~ Written on 2007-05-28