By Padmaja Sarathy

Proactive steps to address executive functioning deficits during early childhood can positively impact school success, as well as the child’s health and future well-being. Get a strong foundation of knowledge about executive functioning and corresponding deficits, plus ready-to-use strategies and tools to deliver fun, meaningful and engaging instruction that advances young children’s skills — all easily integrated into typical routines and activities of preschool and kindergarten settings:

• Strategies to encourage pretend play with easy-to-use scaffolds and adaptations to nurture cognitive flexibility, creativity and self-control
• Descriptions on how to use games, songs and movement activities to continually increase the challenge to strengthen executive functioning skills
• Techniques to teach children how to use calming methods to develop self-control and reduce behavioral challenges
• Child-specific scenarios depicting a diversity of executive functioning difficulties with personalized interventions
• And more!