ADHD Therapies With No Medicine How to help a child with ADHD without drugs? It's a question we hear more often these days.  While lesser known, there are ways to manage and control ADHD without...

Double-Edged Frustration: 2e, Twice-Exceptional Kids Twice-exceptional, meaning gifted students with a learning disability like dyslexia, is a challenge for parents. An unrecognized and untreated...

Actionable Ideas If Your Child Is Having a Hard Time Learning Confidence is the rocket fuel of learning, but it's a fragile asset that has to be managed. For many parents, the first sign of a...

Being Bright Gets You Only So Far Many gifted children struggle in school, not due to a lack of intelligence, but due to executive function disorders. The good news for them, however, is that...

How Executive Dysfunction Limits Reading Proficiency When children struggle with reading, parents often assume the problem lies in sounding out words or decoding. But for many students, the...

Does ADHD Cause Executive Dysfunction? Parents often hear the terms executive function and ADHD used in the same breath. While closely related, they are not identical. Executive function refers to...

Is Your Child Organized and On Track? If you are wondering when to get help for executive function delays, it's when your child's organizing, planning, and self-regulation skills are not meeting the...

Self-Regulation in Children - A Key Executive Function Skill Academic potential will not be fully realized until executive functioning skills develop. While the main signs of delayed executive...