Smart but Scattered Kids

For Parents: Why Can’t They Be Like We Were? A Conversation about Parenting to Support Executive Skills

Peg is interviewed by Brandon Slade an executive skills coach and founder of Untapped Learning

 

For Parents: Just One Thing presented by Bettina Hohnan with Peg Dawson

In this podcast, Peg shares her “perfect intervention to support executive skill development.”

Executive functions, like planning, organizing, paying attention, and managing time, are crucial for managing everyday life. Many children struggle with these skills, leading parents to mistakenly think their kids are being difficult or lazy when they actually haven’t developed the necessary brain circuits or habits. Peg Dawson shares her expertise and introduces a simple yet powerful five-minute intervention designed to help parents enhance their child’s executive skills.

 

Sample lesson for teaching executive skills to elementary school students

 

Picture Schedules

Listen to Peg’s interview with Lindsay Cribbs, a teacher and mom, who discovered that picture schedules are very effective in helping even very young children become more independent in following daily routines.

 

Why Some People Struggle To Set Goals And Achieve Them With Dr. Peg Dawson

In this YouTube interview, Peg talks with Elliott Neff, founder of Chess4Life (https://chess4life.com), about how playing chess helps kids develop executive skills while doing something fun.

 

Helping Children and Teens Strengthen Executive Skills To Reach Their Full Potential (Parent Webinar)

 

Teaching Preteen Independence Without Hovering
Free Webinar Replay

Do most conversations with your preteen end in a shouting match? You’re not alone. Peg Dawson, Ed.D., explains how to navigate the precarious parent-child relationship through adolescence, while giving your child the independence he craves.

 

The Teen Brain and Risk Taking

Join Peg Dawson, Ed.D., as she discusses how the teen brain processes information related to risk evaluation and how this is different from how adults process risk.

 

The Teen Brain and Thinking Skills

Join Peg Dawson, Ed.D., as she discusses how the teen brain processes information and how they think, which is different from how adults think.

 

Smart But Scattered: Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School

This is an excerpt from the video lecture entitled “Smart But Scattered: Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School” by Richard Guare, Ph.D., D-BCBA and Dr. Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP. For details on the full video and to order, please visit the CMI Education Institute’s website at www.pesi.com.

 

Executive Function Discussion

View this series of short videos featuring Peg Dawson and a team of specialists at Cambridge School discussing high interest questions regarding Executive Function.

 

Conversation & Inspiration

View this Conversation and Inspiration episode featuring an interview with Dr. Rachel Ramsey, a middle school teacher who brings executive skills into the classroom in a number of creative ways.