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“Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.” ― Liezi

My Pinterest for Executive Functioning and Cognitive Skills Interventions

Resources:
  • executive_functioning_and_cognitive_control_manual.pdf
  • addressing_executive_functioning_needs.pdf
  • baddeley_model_of_working_memory.pdf
  • barkley_model_of_adhd.pdf
  • circles_of_control_and_influence.pdf
  • cognitive_behavioral_therapy.pdf
  • effortful_control_hierarchy.pdf
  • executive_control_mechanisms.pdf
  • executive_function_hierarchy.pdf
  • factors_affecting_development_of_executive_functions.pdf
  • feedback_that_sticks.pdf
  • flexibility.pdf
  • for_cognitive_computer_training_to_be_effective.pdf
  • framework_of_executive_function_processes.pdf
  • impulse_control.pdf
  • map_of_executive_function_and_regulation.pdf
  • neurobiology_of_executive_functions.pdf
  • neurocognitive_processes_affecting_impulse_control.pdf
  • principles_of_neuroplasticity.pdf
  • skills_for_active_learning.pdf
  • whole_brain_child.pdf
  • zone_of_proximal_development.pdf

Executive Functioning Skills Assessments
  • executive_function_assessments.pdf
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function

​Checklists​ for Assessment and Decision Making
  • Abridged Executive Control Skills Checklist
  • Adult College Symptoms Checklist
  • Checklist For Executive Functions in Written Expression
  • CLASSROOM CHECKLIST FOR EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
  • ​Elementary School Executive Function (EF) Checklist
  • EXECUTIVE SKILLS: PLANNING INTERVENTIONS
  • EXECUTIVE SKILLS: SEMISTRUCTURED INTERVIEW OF STUDENT​
  • Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI)
  • Dawson and Guare Forms
    • ​Executive Skills Questionnaire — Adults
    • Executive Skills Semistructured Interview-Parent Version
    • Executive Skills Questionnaire 
    • Executive Skills Questionnaire for Children Grades 1-3​
    • Executive Skills Questionnaire for Children Middle School (Grades 6-8) 
    • Executive Skills Questionnaire for Students 
    • Executive Skills Questionnaire-Teen Version​
  • McCloskey
    • McCloskey Executive Functions Scale (MEFS)
    • McCloskey Executive Functions Scale (MEFS) Report​

Executive Functioning​
  • Books​
    • Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties
    • Autism and Everyday Executive Function:  A Strengths-Based Approach for Improving Attention, Memory, Organization and Flexibility
    • ​Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators
    • Developing Flexibility Skills in Children and Teens with Autism:  The 5P Approach to Thinking, Learning and Behaviour
    • The Development of Working Memory in Children
    • Executive Function:  Cognitive Fitness for Business
    • Executive Function Difficulties in Adults: 100 Ways to Help Your Clients Live Productive and Happy Lives 
    • Executive Functioning in the Classroom:  Practical Strategies for Improving Performance and Enhancing Skills for All Students
    • Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension:  A Guide for Educators
    • Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents:  A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention
    • Flexible and Focused:  Teaching Executive Function Skills to Individuals with Autism and Attention Disorders
    • FLIPP the Switch:  Strengthen Executive Function Skills
    • Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions:  The Attention Fix
    • Impulse Control Activities & Worksheets for Middle School Students
    • Learning the R.O.P.E.S. for Improved Executive Function
    • Planning to Learn:  Creating and Using a Personal Planner with Young People in the Autism Spectrum
    • Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom
    • Smart but Scattered:  The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
    • 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
    • Smart but Scattered Teens:  The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential
    • Smart but Stuck:  How Resilience Frees Imprisoned Intelligence for Learning Disabilities
    • Solving Executive Function Challenges:  Simple Ways to Get Kids with Autism Unstuck and On Target
    • The Source for Executive Function Disorders
    • Teaching Teens with ADD, ADHD, & Executive Function Deficits:  A Quick Reference Guide for Teachers and Parents
    • Teaching Time Management to Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder 
    • Thriving with ADHD Workbook for Kids: 60 Fun Activities to Help Children Self-Regulate, Focus, and Succeed 
    • Tigers, Too:  Executive Functions/Speed of Processing/Memory:  Impact on Academic, Behavioral, and Social Functioning of Students with ADHD, Tourette syndrome, and OCD:  Modifications and Interventions
    • Transforming ADHD:  Simple, Effective Attention & Action Regulation Skills to Help You Focus and Succeed
    • A Week of Switching, Shifting, and Stretching:  How to Make My Thinking More Flexible
    • Working Memory and Academic Learning:  Assessment and Intervention
    • Working Memory for Learning:  A Practical Guide for Teachers
  • Programs
    • ​Coaching College Students with Executive Function Problems​
    • Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits
    • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD:  Targeting Executive Dysfunction
    • Executive Functions at Home and School:  Six Skills Young Learners Need to Succeed
    • Helping Students Remember:  Exercises and Strategies to Strengthen Memory
    • Organizational Skills Training for Children with ADHD:  An Empirically Supported Treatment
    • The Organized Child: An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid's Potential--in School and in Life 
    • Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD:  Building Skills and Motivation
    • Seeing My Time
    • Unstuck and On Target!:  An Executive Function Curriculum to Improve Flexibility for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Workbooks
    • Adult Executive Functioning Workbook
    • The CEO of Self:  An Executive Functioning Workbook
    • ​Executive Functioning Workbook
    • The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens:  Help for Unprepared, Late, and Scattered Teens
    • ​Executive Functions Training:  Adolescent
    • Executive Functions Training:  Elementary
    • ​Flexible Thinking Program
    • ​More Attention, Less Deficit:  Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD
    • Study Strategies Plus:  Building Your Study Skills and Executive Functioning for School Success
    • Train Your Brain for Success:  A Teenager's Guide to Executive Functions
    • ​Understand Your Brain, Get More Done:  The ADHD Executive Functions Workbook

Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • Books
    • The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Workbook 
    • Brainlash:  Maximize Your Recovery from Mild Brain Injury
    • Cognitive and Perceptual Rehabilitation:  Optimizing Function
    • Cognitive Rehabilitation Manual:  Translating Evidence-Based Recommendations into Practice
    • Cognitive Rehabilitation for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury:  A Functional Approach
    • Cognitive Rehabilitation of Executive Functions
    • Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists
    • Effective Learning After Acquired Brain Injury:  A practical guide to support adults with neurological conditions
    • Functional remediation for Bipolar Disorder
    • Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Childhood Brain Injury:  A Practical Guide
    • Optimizing Cognitive Rehabilitation:  Effective Instructional Methods
    • Practical Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury:  A Guide for Working Clinicians
  • Workbooks
    • Auditory Memory in Context Instructional Workbook:  for the Development of Attention, Listening, Processing and Recall of Sentences and Paragraphs
    • Auditory Sequential Memory Instructional Workbook
    • The Brain Injury Workbook: Exercises for Cognitive Rehabilitation (Speechmark Practical Therapy Manual) 2nd Edition
    • Living with an Acquired Brain Injury: The Practical Life Skills Workbook
    • The Memory Workbook:  Breakthrough Techniques to Exercise Your Brain and Improve Your Memory
    • The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workbook: Your Program for Regaining Cognitive Function and Overcoming Emotional Pain (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
    • Problem Solving Therapy Program (PSTP):  A Model-Based Approach
    • The Thinking Skills Workbook: A Cognitive Skills Remediation Manual for Adults
    • Reversing Reversals:  Fun Activities that Build Sequencing, Visual Discrimination and Tracking Abilities
  • Activities
    • Cards:  Cognition, Attention, and Recall Drill Set:  Attention
    • Cards:  Cognition, Attention, and Recall Drill Set:  Memory
    • Cognitive exercises for language intervention:  Verbal reasoning activities for adolescents and adults
    • Cognition Functional Rehabilitation Activity Manual:  A Comprehensive Manual for Therapists, Staff and Families Working with Persons Who Have Challenges with Cognition
  • Assistive Technology
    • Assistive Technologies and Other Supports for People with Brain Impairment
    • Assistive Technology for Cognition:  A handbook for clinicians and developers
  • Computer Programs
    • http://www.braintrain.com/--comprehensive cognitive training software called Captain's Log Mindpower.
    • http://www.cogmed.com/​--Cogmed is an evidence-based intervention for improving working memory.
    • https://www.cognifit.com/professional--provides an online tool for assessment, training, and tracking of cognitive skills.
    • http://www.constanttherapy.com/--innovative iPad and Android app that "provides a science-based mobile solution for highly personalized, continuous therapy tools" for addressing cognitive skills. (from http://www.constanttherapy.com/)
    • ​http://www.lapublishing.com/home.php--Includes a number of software programs including:  the Attention Process Training-3 (APT-3), Concentration-Attention-and-Mental-Speed-Rehabilitation-Task (CAMSART), and the Acquired Brain Injury Memory Exercises.
    • http://www.pearsonclinical.com/psychology/products/100001914/rehacom-for-cognitive-therapy-after-stroke-or-tbi.html-- RehaCom is a computerized cognitive therapy tool developed by experts and therapists that focuses on the rehabilitation of patients with cognitive impairment. Deficit-specific therapy is provided following initial diagnostic assessment or the optional included screening assessments. More than 20 computerized therapy modules are available to help your clients improve cognitive function and compensatory skills in attention, memory, executive functions, and visual field (from http://www.pearsonclinical.com/psychology/products/100001914/rehacom-for-cognitive-therapy-after-stroke-or-tbi.html)
    • http://www.scientificbraintrainingpro.com/--HAPPYNeuron Pro provides several programs targeting effective cognitive stimulation and cognitive remediation.
    • Psychological Software Services:  provides a number of different software options for cognitive rehabilitation.
      • http://www.cognitiveenhancementtherapy.com/:  CET is a performance based, comprehensive, developmental approach to the rehabilitation of social cognitive and neurocognitive deficits. Participants work at recovery through structured group and computer exercises. CET is designed as a recovery phase intervention for symptomatically stable persons with severe mental illness, who nonetheless remain socially and vocationally disabled.  (from:  http://www.cognitiveenhancementtherapy.com/)
      • https://www.neuropsychonline.com/--the Neuropsychonline Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy System is a web-based suite of therapeutic activities meant to enhance and develop attention, memory, executive functioning, visuospatial, problem-solving, and communication skills.
      • https://www.psychological-software.com/psscogrehab.html--PSSCogRehab got its start back in 1982! It is the most used and researched of any cognitive rehabilitation system. PSSCogRehab 2012 is a total rewrite of the original system (plus a few new exercises) to bring it up to date with current computers and operating systems. It looks fantastic and runs like a dream on PCs and Macs. And now we have English, Korean and Spanish versions. (from https://www.psychological-software.com/psscogrehab.html)
  • ​Websites
    • http://www.acrm.org/--"ACRM | American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine is an organization of rehabilitation professionals dedicated to serving people with disabling conditions by supporting research that promotes health, independence, productivity, and quality of life; and meets the needs of rehabilitation clinicians and people with disabilities.  In order to enhance current and future research and knowledge translation, ACRM assists researchers in improving their investigations and dissemination of findings; educates providers to deliver best practices, and advocates for funding of future rehabilitation research."  (from www.acrm.org)
    • https://chadd.org/:  CHADD is at the forefront of publishing and disseminating the most current scientifically based and authoritative information about ADHD to members and professionals in the areas of medicine, psychology, education, law and other professions. (from:  https://chadd.org/)
    • ​http://www.lapublishing.com--leading source of information, training, and resources for working with individuals with Brain Injury, Blast Injury, and PTSD in children, adolescents, adults, and veterans.  Includes a number of software programs including:  the Attention Process Training-3 (APT-3), Concentration-Attention-and-Mental-Speed-Rehabilitation-Task (CAMSART), and the Acquired Brain Injury Memory Exercises.
    • http://www.russellbarkley.org/:  the official website of Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., an internationally recognized authority on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD) in children and adults who has dedicated his career to widely disseminating science-based information about ADHD.(from http://www.russellbarkley.org/)
    • http://www.scilearn.com/products/fast-forword--Fast ForWord is a computerized reading intervention program that targets:  memory, attention, processing, language, phonological awareness, as well as other reading skills (from http://www.scilearn.com/products/fast-forword​)
    • SMARTS Online Executive Functioning Curriculum:  SMARTS empowers students by helping them understand their strengths and weaknesses and teaching them critically important executive function strategies.  SMARTS contains practical tools to teach executive function strategies, also known as executive function skills, for organization, time management, planning, prioritizing, flexible thinking, self-monitoring and checking, and memory. With SMARTS, students develop the self-understanding to know which strategies work for them as well as why, where, when and how to use strategies to complete their homework, to plan for long-term projects, and to study for tests. (from:  https://smarts-ef.org/)

Abstract Thinking, Logic and Reasoning
  • Building Thinking Skills:  Level 2
  • Building Thinking Skills:  Level 3 Verbal
  • Building Thinking Skills:  Level 3 Figural
  • Critical Thinking Book One
  • Critical Thinking Book Two
  • James Madison Critical Thinking Course
  • Thinkertoys:  A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques
  • Perplexors:  deductive reasoning and logic
  • Directive Detective:  direction following and abstract reasoning
  • Analogy Challenges:  logic and abstract thinking
  • Red Herring Mysteries:  logic and abstract thinking
  • Word Winks:  visual wordplay and reasoning
  • Mind Benders:  logic and reasoning

For Parents and Professionals
  • 50 Tips to Help Students Succeed:  Develop Your Student's Time-Management and Executive Skills for Life
  • ​ADHD A Different Hard Drive?
  • ADHD Homework Challenges Transformed:  Creative Ways to Achieve Focus and Attention by Building on AD/HD Traits
  • Awakening Children's Minds:  How Parents and Teachers Make a Difference
  • Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up:  Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World
  • The Conscious Parent's Guide to Executive Functioning Disorder:  A Mindful Approach for Helping Your Child Focus and Learn
  • Executive Function "Dysfunction":  Strategies for Educators and Parents
  • How ADHD Affects Home Organization:  Understanding the Role of The 8 Key Executive Functions of the Mind
  • The Impulsive, Disorganized Child:  Solutions for Parenting Kids with Executive Functioning Difficulties
  • Late, Lost and Unprepared:  A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
  • Managing Your ADHD:  Tips and Strategies from A to Z
  • Mindful Parenting for ADHD:  A Guide to Cultivating Calm, Reducing Stress, and Helping Children Thrive
  • The Organized Child: An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid's Potential--in School and in Life
  • Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life:  Train Your Brain to Get More Done in Less Time
  • Organizing the Disorganized Child:  Simple Strategies to Succeed in School
  • Organizing for the Creative Person:  Right-brain styles for conquering clutter, mastering time, and reaching your goals
  • Organizing for Your Brain Type:  Finding Your Own Solution to Managing Time, Paper, and Stuff
  • Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:  Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized
  • The Overflowing Brain:  Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory
  • Playing Smarter in a Digital World:  A Guide to Choosing and Using Popular Video Games and Apps to Improve Executive Functioning in Children and Teens
  • Taking Flight:  Mastering Executive Function
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