Mastering Executive Function: A Comprehensive Guide
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Homework that is started but never finished. Instructions forgotten halfway through. Bags, deadlines and belongings lost on a regular basis. Emotional reactions that seem out of proportion, and an apparent inability to get started despite clear ability and intention. These difficulties are often attributed to laziness, carelessness or poor motivation. In many cases, they reflect differences in executive function.
Executive function is the set of cognitive processes that allow a person to plan, organise, hold information in mind, control impulses, regulate emotions and carry a task through to completion. These processes underpin learning, behaviour and daily life. Differences in executive function are particularly common in people with ADHD, autism and other neurodivergent profiles.
This CPD-accredited online course explains how executive function develops and how it affects children and adults in school, at work and in social settings. It covers planning, organisation, impulse control, working memory and emotional regulation, and examines why difficulties in these areas are frequently misunderstood.
The course also sets out practical strategies for helping neurodivergent individuals develop these skills and for adapting expectations and environments so that ability is not masked by executive demands.
It is designed for therapists, educators and parents who want a clearer understanding of executive function and a more effective way to support it.
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Module 1: What is executive function?This module discusses in details what basic cognitive processes are, as well as higher executive functions. We also take a look at executive functions in action for a clearer picture of what they are and do.
Executive dysfunction is also discussed.
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Module 2: Symptoms of executive function disorder
Symptoms of executive dysfunction are discussed in great detail. Symptoms are broken up into age categories as well as locations (home, work).
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Module 3: Causes of executive function disorder
The different causes of executive dysfunction are discussed. We take a look at the permanent as well as temporary causes of executive dysfunction.
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Module 4: Symptoms of executive function as they relate to ADHD, dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder and others diagnoses
General symptoms of executive dysfunction are discussed, as well as how they relate to ADHD, ASD, dyslexia, anxiety, stress, and depression.
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Module 5: Diagnosing executive function disorder
The diagnosis of executive dysfunction is discussed in great detail. The different tests for different ages are discussed. What they are called, what they test, why the skill they are testing is important as well as how the test works.
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Module 6: Treatment options
Treatment options for executive dysfunction take the highlight here. Learn more about medications used, interventions as well as the professionals who may help you on your path.
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Module 7: Strategies to enhance executive function skills from infancy to adolescence
Strategies to enhance and practise executive functions skills with children from infancy to adolescence are discussed in detail. Examples of games to play are given for ages ranging from 6 months until adolescence.
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Module 8: Strategies to cope with executive dysfunction
This module contains strategies you may use to cope with executive dysfunction. Strategies are for children as well as adults and are location specific as well, e.g., home, school, work. This module also discusses time blindness.
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Module 9: Prevention
This module gives a quick overview of how certain instances of executive dysfunction may be prevented.
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