How To Help Your Child Or Teen Build Executive Functions
Executive Functions are a cluster of high level cognitive skills that involve management and effective use of thinking skills. It’s a network of awareness and attention that includes planning, controlling attention, inhibiting inappropriate or ineffective behaviors, processing information in working memory, and other similar skills for managing cognition. Like a CEO, Executive Functions oversee many aspects of conscious behavior.
It’s crucial to understand that Executive Function is closely tied to brain development and isn’t fully mature until about 24 years. Over time, areas of the . . .