Earn 0.15 ASHA CEUs,  Intermediate Level

Course Title:

Executive Functioning: Beyond Checklists and Planners

Course Description: 

This session will examine the impact of executive functioning on academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Attendees will explore five key intervention areas, barriers to effective service delivery, and a structured instructional approach to support planning, self-talk, and task completion, with strategies for addressing avoidance and dysregulation. 

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, participants will be able to

1.Define external and internal mental processes associated with executive functioning and their impact on students’ academic, social, and emotional functioning.

2.Identify five skill areas multidisciplinary teams can focus to inform interventions and strategies that support executive functioning.

3.Describe an intervention protocol that builds self-talk, time-perception, and strategic planning for multi-step tasks.

Time-Ordered Agenda:

0-5 Min: Introduction
5-10 Min: External symptoms of executive dysfunction
10-15 Min: Misconceptions about executive dysfunction
15-20 Min: Defining executive functioning
20-25 Min: Organizing executive functioning in to specific behaviors for treatment planning
25-30 Min: Common service delivery models and challenges to implementation
30-35 Min Time-blindness and its relationship to anxiety and executive functioning
35-40 Min: Barriers to generalization with common strategies
40-45 Min: Planning for service delivery vs. Planning for therapy
45-50 Min: Introduction of the EF Intervention Framework
50-55 Min: Defining the EF intervention framework and contexts
55-60 Min: Linking the Explicit Instruction framework
65-80 Min: Demonstration of the “Time Journal” strategy
80-90 Min: Q & A and Wrap Up

 

 The event is open to all SLPs, and is available for ASHA CEUs. In order to receive a certificate of completion and be reported to ASHA for CEUs learners will be expected to:

• Attend the webinar in its entirety

• Attendance will be tracked

• No partial credit will be awarded

• Complete and submit a self-assessment evaluation within 3 business days

• Request to be reported for ASHA CEUs is the responsibility of the course participant

If you would benefit from accommodations for participation, please contact us at support@parallellearning by August 5th.

Parallel Learning strives to provide evidence-based content for its participants.  Should a participant have concerns with the quality or content of a course, please contact support@parallellearning.com. All complaints need to be provided in writing and will be addressed in 30 days.  

Disclosures: 

Financial:
I own a company called Dr. Karen, LLC. I also offer paid trainings and resources for clinicians, educators, and caregivers from which I earn income on my website drkarenspeech.com and drkarendudekbrannan.com.
I was paid a speaker’s fee for giving this presentation.

Nonfinancial:
The views I’m sharing in this presentation are my own and are not a reflection of the views of any of my current or past employers.