Executive Functioning Coaching

Our clinician's are trained in behavioral psychology and provide Executive Function Coaching services for children and adolescents at our center and in the home through teletherapy. 
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Executive function skills are the core set of cognitive skills required for planning, completing and evaluating the completion of tasks, as well as overseeing our communication exchanges. These cognitive skills are typically divided into lower level and higher-level skills. The lower level cognitive skills refer to functions that control behavior, such as attention, motivation, and emotion regulation. The higher-level cognitive skills refer to metacognitive functions that guide behavior, such as planning, organizing, monitoring, reasoning, problem solving and flexibility. There are episodic memories of our experiences that we form into schemas and routines. We retrieve and flexibly apply these schemas for new communication and learning situations while we also monitor our goals, time, and use of strategies. We gradually develop these cognitive skill sets from young childhood through young adulthood.  Executive Function Coaching services are also highly effective for college students who are learning to manage complex study and life schedules.
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Executive function skills support students to develop independent learning skills by developing the following:
 

• Plan homework, written papers and projects

 

• Prioritize and initiate tasks

 

• Monitor how plans are working, problem-solve and make changes

 

• Plan and manage time in order to complete work to meet due dates

 

• Use strategies to manage motivation, attention and energy levels

 

• Manage distractions and return to tasks

 

• Use prior experiences as a guide for completing tasks and working with others

 

• Organize thinking during all aspects of learning and communication with teachers

 

• Use external organizational systems to track papers and belonging

 

• Awareness when there are problems and seek resources

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