Executive Functioning/Social Skills Building

Instruction & Coaching Around Executive Functioning Skills Development

Set of mental skills that include working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control.
These skills help us every day to learn, work, and manage daily life.
When a person has difficulty with executive functions, it can make it hard to focus, follow directions, and handle emotions, among other things.
These skills include refraining inhibiting impulses, organizing and planning out one’s thoughts before acting, juggling multiple pieces of information at once, evaluating alternatives, switching course of action, and adapting your behavior in response to feedback.

What is Social Skills Training (SST)?

Interventions and instructional methods used to help an individual understand and improve social skills.
Often associated with the fields of applied behavior analysis, special education, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and relationship-based therapies.
Focuses on the rules and behaviors that help individuals interact with one another.

What skills can be taught with SST?

● Initiating conversations

● Greetings

● Appropriate eye contact

● How to behave in specific social and community settings

● Understanding emotions and facial expressions

● Gestures and body language

● Assertiveness

● Empathy

Provide explicit, individualized instruction around your child’s various executive functioning needs,
To learn how to use age-appropriate tools to make their lives easier
To develop good habits to help them achieve their goals.

In depth interview to evaluate your child’s needs.
Provide explicit instruction and lessons around executive functioning skill building using evidence based practices.
Exposure therapy to practice the skills in a contrived systematic approach
Review to ensure that progress had been made.
Transition to a maintenance phase where we work on helping your child maintain their good habits, develop goal-oriented persistence, and practice independent problems-solving skills.