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Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential.
Authors:  Peg Dawson, EdD, and Richard Guare, PhD
The Guilford Press, 2009
  • This book offers user friendly, easy-to-follow steps to identify a child's strengths and weaknesses and offers suggestions and easy to reproduce charts and guides to help parents develop strategies and routines to help their child.  The book focuses mainly on improving executive function skills.
  • Chapter topics include: Modifying the Environment; Teaching Executive Function Skills; Motivating Your Child; Strengthening Sustanined Attention;Teaching Task Initiation; Promoting, Planning and Prioritizing; Fostering Organization; Instilling Time Management; Encouraging Flexibility; Incrasing Goal-Directed Persistence; When What You Do is Not Enough