Bright but Baffling: Helping your child develop executive functioning skills

Bright
but Baffling:

Giftedness,
Learning Disabilities, or Multiple Exceptionalities

Helping
Your Child Develop Executive Functioning Skills

Presented
by Aimee Yermish, Psy.D.

www.davincilearning.org

Thursday,
January 16th 2014 at 7pm

Curtis Middle School Library

22 Pratts Mill Road, Sudbury MA

Most of the
interventions suggested for helping kids get their work done, keep track of
their stuff, manage their time, and the like involve imposing the adult will on
an uncooperative child.  However, as kids get older, they don’t usually
like to play those games any more, and they will often do their best to bend
rules – lawyer, skate, and slippery-fish their way around them. 

This can be
frustrating and exhausting for everyone.  

We will
explore strategies that will work for children as they move up into independent
adulthood. The sticker charts gone! No one will be giving them out in college
or in the workplace!  

In this talk,
we will look at executive functioning, the “conductor of the orchestra” of our
brain, and the various aspects of how it helps us get things done.  Aimee
will present principles and case study examples of how we can work
strategically with kids, designing interventions to bypass
weaknesses, improve what they need to work on, and capitalize on
strengths.  Bring your questions!

Aimee draws upon her analytical
background as a research scientist, her practical background as a classroom
teacher, and her professional training as both a clinical psychologist and an
educational therapist. Her goal is always to build a person’s range of adaptive
skills, self-understanding, capacity for self-regulation, and independence, to
help them identify and effectively follow their passions.

Please RSVP to sudburysepac@gmail.com

The Sudbury Special Education Parent Advisory Council acts as a
resource and advisor

to parents and educators of children with disabilities in the PreK-8 schools.