Specialty Spotlight: PE with Coach T
- May 1st, 2024
Specialty Spotlight: PE with Coach T! Students at Sunset View are preparing for the Social Studies Extravaganza that will be Thursday, May 16, 2024. Fifth grade students have a cardio drumming...
Each week we will be sharing a tip from our school psychologist, Mrs. Rollins.
What are Executive Functioning Skills?
Executive Functioning skills are brain-based skills that help us perform tasks. A person or child could be very smart, but struggle to complete a given task due to a lack of executive functioning skills that interrupts the planning, initiation, or completion of a task. An adult or child that struggles with multiple executive functioning skills often requires help doing tasks that other people their age or younger do independently.
All of us have executive functioning strengths and weaknesses. As you read through the different definitions of skills, you may think to yourself that you are good at one, but not another. Or you might think of ways you compensate to help you through difficulty with one or two of the skills. There are 11 identified executive functioning skills and they are defined as follows:
Source: Smart, but Scattered by, Peg Dawson
Cada semana compartiremos un consejo de nuestra psicóloga escolar, la Sra. Rollins.
¿Qué son las habilidades de funcionamiento ejecutivo?
Las habilidades de funcionamiento ejecutivo son habilidades basadas en el cerebro que nos ayudan a realizar tareas. Una persona o un niño puede ser muy inteligente, pero tiene dificultades para completar una tarea determinada debido a una falta de habilidades de funcionamiento ejecutivo que interrumpe la planificación, la iniciación o la finalización de una tarea. Un adulto o un niño que tiene dificultades con varias habilidades de funcionamiento ejecutivo suele necesitar ayuda para realizar tareas que otras personas de su edad o más jóvenes hacen de forma independiente.
Todos tenemos puntos fuertes y débiles en el funcionamiento ejecutivo. Al leer las diferentes definiciones de las habilidades, puede que pienses que eres bueno en una, pero no en otra. O puede pensar en formas de compensación que le ayuden a superar las dificultades con una o dos de las habilidades. Hay 11 habilidades de funcionamiento ejecutivo identificadas y se definen de la siguiente manera:
Fuente: Smart, but Scattered by, Peg Dawson Traducido con www.DeepL.com/Translator (versión gratuita)
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