Effective Assessment of Executive Skills: The Key to Function in Children and Adolescents

Assessment techniques that work! Use an effective, comprehensive framework to evaluate executive skill capacities in children and adolescents; know when to intervene and help clients overcome executive function challenges.

Full Description:
Research is now clearer than ever: a child who can listen, pay attention, follow instructions, and persist on a task will achieve greater success in school and in life. Children and adolescents who are self-regulated have mastered executive skills such as goal setting and self-monitoring. Direct formal methods of individually administered, standardized, norm-referenced measures dominate assessment practices in clinics and schools. Traditional measures of executive skills are limited and don’t address application to all arenas of life causing an overgeneralization of results.
This webinar will introduce a comprehensive framework to clarify the nature of a child’s executive skill capacity and how it or is not used in everyday functioning. Concepts from the importance of a child’s executive skill capacities to intervention planning will be discussed.

Course Includes:
Live Q&A
Presentation Handout
Post session recording access
CE Credit

What You Will Learn:
Establish a multidimensional and multi-method approach to assessing executive skills
Examine what executive skills children use effectively
Determine what executive skills present challenges or difficulty for children
Evaluate how to help a child overcome his/hertheir executive function difficulties

Your Presenter:
Krista M. Marchman, MS, EdS, PhD, is the founder and director of Educational Consulting Associates, Inc., an independent school psychology practice specializing in diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic consultation.

Dr. Marchman is also the co-founder of the Cognitive Academy of Central Florida, a program that offers a variety of evidenced-based cognitive training and remediation programs helping children, adolescents, and adults improve attention and working memory. She has 20 years of experience working with neuro-developmental disorders, such as ADHD, learning disabilities, ASD, and differential diagnosis of co-occurring childhood conditions.

Disclaimer:
This event qualifies for one CE credit. Only registered attendees will have access to CE. A Cross Country Education web account is required to attend. There is no charge for a CCE web account. It is recommended that you join the meeting 15 to 20 minutes early. Speaker phone sound quality is poor and it is recommended that they not be used to listen to the event.

Technical requirements:
To view this webinar you will need to download the WebEx Application. You will be prompted to download it when you first enter the site. To save time, you can setup prior to the meeting by following this link:
https://apidemoeu.webex.com/apidemoeu/meetingcenter/mcsetup.php

Who Should Attend:
Psychologists, School Psychologists, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, School Guidance Counselors, Social Workers, Educators, Marriage and Family Therapists, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, School Nurses, Mental Health Nurses, Psychiatrists, Case Managers, School Principals and Administrators, Clergy