The Impact of Long COVID on Executive Function
Research is uncovering the relationship between long COVID and executive function impairment. Here’s what you should know.
Executive Function: The Inside Story
Executive function skills are important to effectively managing work and life. But what are the brain processes that make them work – or not?
Deconstructing Executive Function Disorder
Executive function disorder affects a person’s ability to manage and organize themselves, and achieve goals. Awareness is the first step to treatment.
“Executive Function Disorder” exposes an Education Dysfunction Disorder
We all need an Executive Function Coach, but not because we have a disorder. We need an Executive Function Coach because facing the challenges of life competently requires us to continue to develop our decision-making repertoire. Everyone is working on one or more executive functioning skills. But no tutor can teach them. Teaching is not the delivery system for these skills; coaching is.
Executive Function Coaching Saves Lives
Executive Function Coach and Trainer Erin Wilson recently related this story about one of her 17 year old students. He had called her on a Friday evening. It was late, she was tired, but took the call. He told her he was in despair, standing on Seattle’s Aurora Bridge, ready to jump.
Managing Executive Functioning Challenges
Executive functions refer to cognitive processes that are necessary for the cognitive control of behavior to successfully attain chosen goals. We all use these executive functions to plan, organize and complete tasks. Problems with executive functioning can be seen at any age but tend to be increasingly apparent as children move through the early elementary grades. The demands of completing schoolwork can often trigger signs that there are difficulties in this area.