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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

Executive skills in children and adolescents : a practical guide to assessment and intervention / Peg Dawson, Richard Guare.

Edition:

Second edition

Publisher, Date:

New York : Guilford Press, [2010]

Description:

xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Summary:

The book explains how these critical cognitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children's behavior and school performance. Provided are step-by-step guidelines and many practical tools to promote executive skill development by implementing environmental modifications, individualized instruction, coaching, and whole-class interventions. --from publisher description.

Series:

The Guilford practical intervention in the schools series

Guilford practical intervention in the schools series.

Subjects:

Executive ability in children.

Executive ability in adolescence.

Self-management (Psychology) for teenagers.

Self-management (Psychology) for children.

Self-care, Health.

Other Author:

Guare, Richard, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index.

Contents:

Overview of executive skills -- Assessing executive skills -- Linking assessment to intervention -- Interventions to promote executive skills -- Specific teaching routines to promote executive skills development -- Interventions for specific executive skills domains -- Coaching students with executive skills deficits -- Executive skills interventions within a response-to-intervention framework -- Applications to specific populations -- Planning for transitions -- Appendix: Reproducible forms.

LCCN:

2009049722

ISBN:

9781606235713

1606235710

Other Number:

430839816

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

1

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

346823

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

649.1526 Dawson