By Dr. Derek Ihori and Dr. Alexia Melara

This research-based guide gives you the tools to help students with disabilities succeed in a standards-based curriculum that emphasizes strong executive functioning skills. Along with explanation of the three executive functions, you get specific interventions to foster students’ skills in:

• Differentiating essential from extraneous information
• Focusing attention and avoiding off-task behaviors
• Planning and organizing thoughts and materials, and identifying multiple ways to address tasks
• Using technology supports, including cloud-based calendars, task lists and browser extensions
• Plus more

Plus, an entire chapter is devoted to special education assessment, explaining when an assessment should be conducted and what it should involve so students newly demonstrating executive functioning issues don’t slip through the cracks.