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<blockquote data-quote="Sheila" data-source="post: 80226" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>We have the same problem, kjs. It is very, very frustrating for student, parents and educators. </p><p></p><p>It does sound executive function related. He will forever flounder in school unless someone helps him. He needs a daily life coach at school -- someone to meet with him a couple of times a day. In the afternoon to make sure he has whatever he needs for homework, train him in organization skills by checking a planner for assignments, etc; in the morning to make sure he gets completed work turned in.</p><p></p><p>Our difficult child has a daily life coach at school as part of his IEP. It makes a difference.</p><p></p><p>"Executive functions are the higher-order processes that enable us to plan, sequence, initiate, and sustain our behavior towards some goal, incorporating feedback and making adjustments along the way. Some of the neurobehavioral conditions discussed on this web site such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Depression have been associated with Executive Dysfunction, but it is ADHD that is most freqently associated with the problems described in this section."</p><p></p><p>"One area which is often significantly impaired relates to homework. Students with EDF may experience tremendous challenges because they forget to record all their assignments or pack up necessary materials. At home, their parents may report that the child experiences significantly difficulty getting started, or sustaining their attention so that they complete their task. And on the rare occasion that they do complete the task, they may fail to pack it up and/or turn it in to receive credit. "</p><p></p><p>"The deficits associated with EDF can be in the form of difficulty in organizing time, difficulty in organizing materials and belongings, difficulty in organizing thoughts, difficulty in initiating tasks, difficulty in switching flexibly between tasks, difficulty in sustaining focus on the relevant aspects of a stimulus or task, or any combination of these skills. If you know someone who suffers from disorganization -- books that inexplicably disappear from desks, lockers, and home, papers that never seem to make it from work to home or back to work or school, school, home, or work projects that seemingly have no known due date, the mysterious disappearance of all writing instruments into some great Black Hole, you may know someone with executive dysfunction."</p><p></p><p>You can learn more about it at <a href="http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/disorders/executive-dysfunction/overview-of-executive-dysfunction/" target="_blank">http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/disorders/executive-dysfunction/overview-of-executive-dysfunction/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheila, post: 80226, member: 23"] We have the same problem, kjs. It is very, very frustrating for student, parents and educators. It does sound executive function related. He will forever flounder in school unless someone helps him. He needs a daily life coach at school -- someone to meet with him a couple of times a day. In the afternoon to make sure he has whatever he needs for homework, train him in organization skills by checking a planner for assignments, etc; in the morning to make sure he gets completed work turned in. Our difficult child has a daily life coach at school as part of his IEP. It makes a difference. "Executive functions are the higher-order processes that enable us to plan, sequence, initiate, and sustain our behavior towards some goal, incorporating feedback and making adjustments along the way. Some of the neurobehavioral conditions discussed on this web site such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Depression have been associated with Executive Dysfunction, but it is ADHD that is most freqently associated with the problems described in this section." "One area which is often significantly impaired relates to homework. Students with EDF may experience tremendous challenges because they forget to record all their assignments or pack up necessary materials. At home, their parents may report that the child experiences significantly difficulty getting started, or sustaining their attention so that they complete their task. And on the rare occasion that they do complete the task, they may fail to pack it up and/or turn it in to receive credit. " "The deficits associated with EDF can be in the form of difficulty in organizing time, difficulty in organizing materials and belongings, difficulty in organizing thoughts, difficulty in initiating tasks, difficulty in switching flexibly between tasks, difficulty in sustaining focus on the relevant aspects of a stimulus or task, or any combination of these skills. If you know someone who suffers from disorganization -- books that inexplicably disappear from desks, lockers, and home, papers that never seem to make it from work to home or back to work or school, school, home, or work projects that seemingly have no known due date, the mysterious disappearance of all writing instruments into some great Black Hole, you may know someone with executive dysfunction." You can learn more about it at [url]http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/disorders/executive-dysfunction/overview-of-executive-dysfunction/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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