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Smart but scattered : the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential /
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| Author |
Dawson, Peg.
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| Call Number |
649.152 DAW |
| Publisher |
New York : Guilford Press, |
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Subject
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Parenting.
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Executive ability in children.
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Children -- Life skills guides.
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Child development.
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Parent and child.
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| Title Statement |
Smart but scattered : the revolutionary "executive skills" approach to helping kids reach their potential / Peg Dawson, Richard Guare. |
| Description |
vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: What makes your child smart but scattered -- How did such a smart kid end up so scattered? -- Identifying your child's strengths and weaknesses -- How your own executive skill strengths and weaknesses matter -- Matching the child to the task -- Part II: Laying a foundation that can help -- Ten principles for improving your child's executive skills -- Modifying the environment : A is for antecedent -- Teaching executive skills directly : B is for behavior -- Motivating your child to learn and use executive skills : C is for consequence -- Part III: Putting it all together -- Advance organizer -- Ready-made plans for teaching your child to complete daily routines -- Building response inhibition -- Enhancing working memory -- Improving emotional control -- Strengthening sustained attention -- Teaching task initiation -- Promoting planning and prioritizing -- Fostering organization -- Instilling time management -- Encouraging flexibility -- Increasing goal-directed persistence -- Cultivating metacognition -- When what you do is not enough -- Working with the school -- What's ahead? |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index. |
| Contributors |
Guare, Richard. |
| ISBN |
9781593859879 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1593859872 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781593854454 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1593854455 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| LCCN |
2008026078 |
| Hold Requests |
0 |
| Bib No. |
1181969 |
