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28.10.2024 / 15:59

Executive Dysfunction Test: Symptoms in Adults with ADHD

Like those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD), people with executive dysfunctions often experience time blindness, or an inability to plan for and keep in mind future events that aren’t in the near-term. They also have difficulty stringing together actions to meet long-term goals.

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Live Webinar on December 5: How to Manage Executive Function and Working Memory Challenges: A Guide for Adults with ADHD

Not available December 5? Don’t worry. Register now and we’ll send you the replay link to watch at your convenience.Running late again? Missing appointments and deadlines? Losing focus and motivation for tasks? And where did you put those car keys? It’s no secret that people with ADHD often bear the burden of living with these and other functional impairments caused by executive function (EF) weaknesses.Executive function is a set of skills that allow people to plan for short- and long-term goals, make adjustments to meet those goals, manage time effectively, remember what they’ve heard and read, and exhibit self-control.

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Why Is It So Hard to Motivate Kids with ADHD?

Traditional motivational techniques — namely, rewards and consequences — don’t work for children with attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD). This truth we hold to be self-evident.

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ADHD & the Art of Persistence: Teaching Goal-Setting Skills

The ability to set a goal and work toward it without being sidetracked is critical to a child with ADHD’s success at school.A first-grader can complete his classwork to get to recess. A teenager can earn and save money over time to buy something he wants.

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Your Executive Functions Are Weak. Here’s Why.

Up to 90 percent of kids with ADHD also have executive function challenges, many of which last into adulthood. But, what are your executive functions, exactly? Broadly speaking, executive function refers to the cognitive or mental abilities that people need to actively pursue goals. In other words, how we behave toward our future goals and what mental abilities we need to accomplish them.

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How to Improve Working Memory in Children with ADHD

Working memory is the ability to temporarily hold information in the mind so as to recall it when needed. It’s an executive function that allows us to store and use items on our “mental shelf” to get things done. In school, students rely on working memory to answer questions about a text they’ve read, and to solve multi-step math problems.

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A 6-Step Plan for Teaching ADHD Self-Advocacy Skills

Self-advocacy is the single most impactful skill for college students with ADHD and learning disabilities (LD), and it’s also seldom taught in middle or high school. When children, adolescents, and young adults with ADHD learn and use the skills of self-advocacy — a set of behaviors to communicate that they are capable and competent, and willing to take on challenges — they almost always do better in school, in social activities, and eventually in the workplace.

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Live Webinar on August 28: It’s About Time! Planning, Prioritizing, and Time-Management Solutions for Students

Not available August 28? Don’t worry. Register now and we’ll send you the replay link to watch at your convenience.Each Fall, many families dive headfirst into big ideas for doing things differently in the new school year… only to see those hopes and ambitions unravel before Halloween. Kids get out of bed grumpily, arrive late to school, struggle to do homework, and fight about their chores.

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How to Sharpen Executive Functions: Activities to Hone Brain Skills

Executive functions (EFs) refer to a family of mental processes that allow us to reason and think before acting, meet new challenges head-on and with flexibility, and stay focused and concentrate, and more. So essential are executive functions to our well-being that they have been described as the mental toolkit for success.1 Often, EFs can be more predictive of academic and career success than either socioeconomic status or IQ.2To improve any executive function, practice is critical.

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