We’re excited to share the sessions taking place at our all-day Executive Function Pre-Conference on February 26th in Orlando. Registration for the Pre-Conference is $99 and includes lunch. Registrants will be able to choose to attend the presentation by Dr. Peter Isquith, or the presentation by Dr. George McCloskey.
Schedule:
-9:30am-12:30pm Presentation
-12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch Break
-1:30pm-4:30pm Presentation Continues
The Evidence for Executive Function Assessment and Intervention
Presenter: Dr. Peter Isquith
Session Description:
Self-regulation, the observable everyday outcome of executive function, plays a guiding role throughout our lives, beginning in infancy and following a protracted developmental course. Numerous environmental, economic, and health risk and resilience factors can alter our ability to initiate, sustain, and inhibit thinking, emotions, and behavior. They may interfere with our ability to adapt to change, to develop, select, and hold goals in working memory, and to plan, organize, and monitor progress toward our goals.
Problems with self-regulation alter the trajectory of individuals’ educational, social, vocational, financial, and health with more negative outcomes. Enhancing self-regulation beginning in early childhood serves to increase the likelihood of more positive functioning both proximally and in the long term. The goal of this full day workshop is to increase knowledge about students’ self-regulation development, risk and resilience factors, methods of assessment, and approaches to improving executive functioning/self-regulation in the everyday world.
In this presentation, we will review the most widely accepted model of self-regulation, or executive function, in the context of other abilities, identify risk and resilience factors that may impact development of self-regulation and long-term outcomes, discuss approaches to assessment in detail, identify successful approaches to enhancing students’ self-regulation with a goal of improving their everyday lives now and into the future, and review cases in common conditions that demonstrate conceptualization, assessment, and intervention recommendations.
APA Credits for Dr. Isquith’s Session Coming Soon!
Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Describe the most widely used model of everyday executive function/self-regulation
- Identify major risk factors for problems with executive functions
- Describe long and short term outcomes of reduced executive function
- Explain pros and cons of performance and rating scale measures of executive function
- Identify specific intervention programs or methods with demonstrated efficacy
Dr. Peter Isquith Bio:
Peter K. Isquith, Ph.D., is a Licensed Psychologist with specialty in developmental neuropsychology who practices in schools across Vermont and New Hampshire and was a Senior Attending Neuropsychologist with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. His primary area of research is the development and disorders of self-regulation across the lifespan and he is author of several works on the topic and co-author of several measures including the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) family of instruments, and the PostConcussion Executive Inventory.
Helping Students Overcome EF Difficulties that Impact Reading, Writing, and Math
Presenter: Dr. George McCloskey
Session Description:
This workshop offers an in-depth exploration of executive functions and their crucial role in learning and using reading, writing, and math skills. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how motivation influences the development of these skills and learn to identify specific challenges in reading, writing, and math that stem from executive function deficits.
The session will also cover practical interventions and strategies to help students strengthen their executive functions, ultimately boosting their academic proficiency. Whether you are a teacher, school psychologist, or educational specialist, this workshop will equip you with the tools to better support students in overcoming executive function difficulties and achieving their full academic potential.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the role of executive functions in reading, writing, and doing math
- Describe how executive function difficulties impact reading, writing, and math production
- Apply assessment techniques to determine how executive function difficulties impact reading, writing, and math proficiency
- Apply instructional techniques that address reading, writing, and math problems releated to executive function difficulties
Dr. George McCloskey Bio:
George McCloskey, Ph.D., is a professor and Director of School Psychology Research in the School of Professional and Applied Psychology of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds Diplomate status with the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. Dr. McCloskey has accumulated 45 years of experience in test development, teaching, research, and assessment and intervention work with children, adolescents, and adults. He has authored two books on executive functions, and the McCloskey Executive Functions Scales, and with his wife, Laurie McCloskey, is co-author of the SILAS/McCloskey Executive Functions Curriculum and the children’s book The Day Frankie Left His Frontal Lobes at Home.