Dawson, Peg

Presents an evidence-based coaching model for helping students with deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation.

Describes strategies parents and teachers can use to help children develop the "executive skills" needed to be successful at home, school, and with friends, including getting organized, planning and initiating work, staying on task, controlling impulses, regulating emotions, and being adaptable and resilient.

Provides general education teachers, graduate students, and researchers with empirically based, practical guidelines for assessment and treatment; and includes reproducible assessment tools, checklists, and planning sheets.