Executive function is a set of skills that help your child make plans, control behavior, and set goals. Your child’s growing brain, as Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child describes it, is like a busy airport, and executive function is its air-traffic control system. It allows a child to focus on an activity, remember details, and manage their time—all critical tasks for success in school.
The 7 essential executive function skills children need, according to researcher and author Ellen Galinsky, are:
• Focus and self-control;
• Perspective taking;
• Communicating;
• Making connections;
• Critical thinking;
• Taking on challenges; and
• Self-directed, engaged learning.
How can I tell if my child struggles with executive function? Since executive function involves a set of skills, there is no single test to identify executive function problems. Generally, a child may have executive function weakness if she or he has trouble:
• Planning projects and staying organized;
• Telling stories verbally or in writing;
• Retaining information while using it (remembering a
phone number while dialing, for instance);
• Estimating how much time a task will take; or
• Memorizing and retrieving information from memory.
Click on the link below to learn more.
http://www.naesp.org/sites/default/files/RtP_ExecFunction_1.pdf
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