Dyslexia, ADHD and Executive Functions from Paula Moraine

Dyslexia, ADHD and Executive Functions Interventions to Improve Literacy and Learning in Children and Adolescents from Paula Moraine

Faculty:Paula Moraine

Duration:6 Hours 01 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video

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Outline:

LITERACY & LEARNING RELATED TO: DYSLEXIA, ADHD AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS

• Attention
• Memory
• Organization
• Time management
• Inhibition/initiative
• Flexibility

DYSLEXIA INTERVENTIONS:

• Strategies to strengthen
  • Decoding
  • Fluency
  • Comprehension
• Receptive and expressive language
• Multi-sensory strategies for reading at home and in school
• Written expression
• Practical, successful apps and computer choices
• Dyslexia simulation – from direct experience to understanding
• Hands-on experiences – simulation, games, apps

ADHD INTERVENTIONS:

• Coach to train and increase attention
• Initiative and inhibition
• Time management
• Engagement
• Challenging sensory input and output to support attention controls
• Take home plan for implementing ADHD controls

EXECUTIVE FUNCTION INTERVENTIONS:

• Tools for executive controls:
  • Relationships
  • Self-advocacy
  • Motivation and incentive
  • Synthesis and analysis
  • Rhythm and routine
• Mental Images for processing memory and time
• Executive function map for individualization
• Transferring organization and time management skills from school to home

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Description:

• Dyslexia Simulation – from direct experience to understanding
• Hands-on experiences through simulations, games and practical applications
• Strategies to strengthen decoding, fluency, and comprehension
• Build your executive function toolbox!
• Coaching techniques for training and bolstering attention

This recording will present a lively and innovative approach to help students who read below grade level, have difficulty writing, and are terrible spellers. These are the students you see every day that struggle to regulate their attention, and have difficulty with organization, planning and time management. Watch this recording and gain insight into these challenges, and leave equipped with new strategies and skills that include ways to:

• Invigorate reading instruction
• Improve reading comprehension
• Increase focus and flexibility for ADHD
• Implement time-efficient, independent homework and study skills
• Individualize strategies for effective executive function

Through a dyslexia simulation and numerous practical examples, learn how to improve literacy and learning by using attention decisions, brain re-sets, memory strategies, and time management techniques. You will be offered a framework for effective reading instruction for dyslexia, as well as a toolbox of strategies to manage attention, organization, flexibility, decision-making, and initiative.