Books
- The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success
- The Work-Smart Academic Planner
- Smart but Scattered
- Smart but Scattered—and Stalled
- Smart but Scattered Teens
- Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents
- Coaching Students with Executive Skills Challenges - Second Edition
- Executive Function Skills in the Classroom
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The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success
How to Use Your Brain’s Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home
by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
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Meeting a huge demand, Peg Dawson and Richard Guare (authors of the bestselling Smart but Scattered books focusing on kids and teens) now provide a state-of-the-art resource specifically geared to adults. Drs. Dawson and Guare offer expert guidance for boosting executive skills–the core brain-based abilities needed to get more done with less stress. Readers will be drawn in by realistic examples, self-quizzes, and science-based tools for strengthening time management, organization, emotional control, and more. And what you can’t change, you can work around! The book is packed with simple yet effective strategies for maintaining focus, conquering clutter, staying on top of work demands, and taming the chaos of family life. Numerous worksheets and forms (which purchasers can download and print in a convenient 8½” x 11″ size) help readers customize the strategies to fit their needs.
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The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition
Write It Down, Get It Done
by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
Published by Guilford Press
From executive skills experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare, the large-format academic planner that has helped thousands of students in grades 6-12 is now revised with a more streamlined design. It provides an all-in-one resource for keeping track of assignments and due dates while developing the crucial executive skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. Students are given the tools to get organized, manage their time, learn study strategies, create daily/weekly study plans, and stay on track. They are also guided to evaluate their own executive skills in order to target their weaknesses and capitalize on strengths. In addition to simplified planner pages, the revised edition has an improved Studying for Tests form. [Add for targeted Special Ed, Child Psych, and Literacy promos only; not for Web: The planner is ideal for implementation with individual students or schoolwide, and is a valuable recommendation for teachers and parents.]
User-friendly features:
- Convenient spiral binding.
- Three-hole punched to fit in a binder; the revised edition is even slimmer and easier to use.
- Reproducible planning forms; purchasers can download and print extra copies.
- Undated daily and monthly calendars for one academic year.
- Three-year reference calendar
- Online-only User’s Guide for school psychologists, educators, coaches, and parents.
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Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
Published by Guilford Press
There’s nothing more frustrating than watching your bright, talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your “smart but scattered” child might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger. Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great news: there’s a lot you can do to help.
The latest research in child development shows that many kids who have the brain and heart to succeed lack or lag behind in crucial “executive skills”–the fundamental habits of mind required for getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions. Learn easy to- follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem solve daily routines. Small changes can add up to big improvements–this empowering book shows how.
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Smart but Scattered—and Stalled
10 Steps to Help Young Adults Use Their Executive Skills to Set Goals, Make a Plan, and Successfully Leave the Nest
by Richard Guare, Colin Guare, and Peg Dawson
Published by Guilford Press
Whether you’re a young adult who is stalled on the journey to independence—or a concerned parent still sharing the family nest—this compassionate book is for you. Providing a fresh perspective on the causes of failure to launch, the expert authors present a 10-step plan that helps grown kids and parents work together to achieve liftoff. Learn why brain-based executive skills such as planning, organization, and time management are so important to success, and what you can do to strengthen them. You get downloadable practical tools for figuring out what areas to target, building skills, identifying a desired career path, and making a customized action plan. Vivid stories of other families navigating the same challenges (including father and son Richard and Colin Guare) reveal what kind of parental support is productive—and when to let go.
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Smart but Scattered Teens: The “Executive Skills” Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential
by Richard Guare, Peg Dawson and Colin Guare
Published by Guilford Press
Many tens of thousands of parents have used the bestselling Smart but Scattered to teach young kids vital skills for living up to their potential. Now Drs. Richard Guare and Peg Dawson apply their groundbreaking approach to the unique challenges of adolescence. Despite high intelligence, teens with executive skills deficits can be frustratingly disorganized, distractible, forgetful, and moody—leaving worried parents torn between micromanaging and throwing up their hands. This positive guide gives parents step-by-step strategies for promoting teens’ independence by helping them get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses. Drs. Guare and Dawson—joined by Colin Guare, a young adult who has successfully faced these issues himself—present proven tools, vivid stories, and insightful tips for reducing parent–teen conflicts.
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Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents
Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)
by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
Published by Guilford Press
Many tens of thousands of school practitioners and teachers (K–12) have benefited from the step-by-step guidelines and practical tools in this influential go-to resource, now revised and expanded with six new chapters. The third edition presents effective ways to assess students’ strengths and weaknesses, create supportive instructional environments, and promote specific skills, such as organization, time management, sustained attention, and emotional control. Strategies for individualized and classwide intervention are illustrated with vivid examples and sample scripts. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes 35 reproducible forms and handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
New to This Edition
- Chapter with guidance and caveats for developing Individual Education Programs (IEPs), 504 Plans, and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS).
- Chapters on working with students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder.
- Three guest-authored chapters describing exemplary schoolwide applications.
- More student centered—provides a template for involving children in intervention decision making.
- Fully updated with the latest developments in the field.
This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series.
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Coaching Students with Executive Skills Challenges
Second Edition
by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
Published by Guilford Press
With 55% new material, the significantly revised second edition of this influential resource presents a refined coaching model and an expanded set of tools for helping K–12 students live up to their potential in school and beyond. The book describes how to provide evidence-based, individualized instruction and support for kids and teens with executive skills challenges. Guidelines are provided for partnering with students and improving their performance in such areas as time and task management, planning, organization, and impulse control. Adaptations for coaching students with disabilities are discussed. In a convenient large-size format, the book features over two dozen reproducible forms and handouts; coaches can download and print additional copies as needed.
New to This Edition
- Two new chapters on coaching 5- to 8-year-olds (K–3), and more material on younger students throughout.
- Shows how to enhance coaching by incorporating motivational interviewing and cognitive rehearsal strategies.
- Chapter of case examples, plus chapters on self-assessment for coaches and the building blocks of executive skills coaching.
- Expanded content on goal setting, action planning, and progress monitoring.
- Updated research and revised reproducible tools.
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Executive Function Skills in the Classroom
Overcoming Barriers, Building Strategies
With insight and humor, this motivating guide shows how to bring executive functions (EF) to the forefront in K–8 classrooms—without adopting a new curriculum or scripted program. Ideal for professional development, the book includes flexible, practical, research-based ideas for implementation in a variety of classroom contexts. It shares stories from dozens of expert teachers who are integrating explicit EF support across the school day. Provided is a clear approach for talking about EF barriers and strategies as part of instruction, and working as a class to problem solve, explore, and apply the strategies that feel right for each student. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print several reproducible tools in a convenient 8½“ x 11” size. This title is part of The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.
This title is ideal for Professional Development. Each chapter is divided into five parallel sections, so the reading can be divided among members of a book study. PD developers can access free review copies at www.guilford.com/PD.
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