All workshops are from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm

November 30, 2012 - Wilshire Grand Hotel - West Orange, NJ

You will learn about a comprehensive model of executive functions in the brain and explore the impact of executive functions on learning, behavior and classroom production. Seminar leader Dr. McCloskey will explain the development of executive functions during school- age years, as well as the involvement of executive functions difficulties in clinical syndromes such as ADHD, autism, and Asperger's. You will learn ways to self-assess personal executive functions strengths and weaknesses and how to assess in-class the executive functions strengths and weaknesses of students. Dr. McCloskey will discuss classroom management techniques and general strategies that teachers and other professionals can use to help children with executive functions difficulties improve their behavior and academic performance either through increasing their capacity for self regulation or through external guidance. He will also discuss specific instructional programs and therapeutic approaches that emphasize the development and improvement of executive functions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At this seminar, you will learn information about:

How executive functions develop during the school-age years

Gaining knowledge of executive functions, and their roles in classroom behavior, learning and production

Identifying and using classroom-friendly methods to assess executive functions strengths and weaknesses

Understanding executive functions difficulties involved in clinical syndromes such as ADHD and autism

Providing appropriate interventions for executive functions difficulties in children and adults

Self-assessing your own personal executive function strengths and weaknesses along with your students

Gaining additional sources of information about assessment and interventions for executive functions difficulties

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

A wide range of specialists working with children will find this workshop relevant and skill-enhancing, including general and special education teachers

reading teachers and other instructional specialists, school administrators

clinical and school psychologists, speech therapists, educational therapists, occupational and physical therapists, and life skills coaches and ADHD coaches.

George McCloskey, PhD

George McCloskey, PhD, is a Professor and Director of Social Psychology Research in the Psychology Department of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He frequently presents at national, regional and state meetings on cognitive and neuropsychological assessment and intervention topics. Dr. McCloskey is the lead author of Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment (2012) and Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties (2008). Dr. McCloskey directed the development of the WISC-IV Integrated and was a Senior Research Director and the Clinical Advisor to the Wechsler Test Development Group for The Psychological Corporation (now part of Pearson).

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

George McCloskey, PhD