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Executive Function

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How Does Executive Functioning Relate to My Child?

Executive functioning refers to our cognitive skills to initiate and maintain attention, follow directions, remember events and information, organize information, demonstrate self-control, and more. Like other skills, executive functions are learned through experience...

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What Is Executive Functioning?

While executive functioning sounds very technical words, it’s not as scary as you might think! Your executive function is essentially the boss you have in your brain telling you what to do, how to do it, how long you should do it, and when to start and stop. While the...