Check-in registration begins at 7:45am.

The workshop runs from 8:15am - 2:30pm.

You will learn about a comprehensive model of executive functions in the brain and explore the impact of executive functioning on learning, behavior and classroom production. Dr. McCloskey will explain the development of executive functions, as well as the involvement of executive function difficulties in clinical syndromes such as ADHD and autism. You will learn ways to self-assess personal executive function skills and how to assess the executive function strengths and weaknesses of students in class. Dr. McCloskey will discuss classroom management techniques and general strategies that teachers and other professionals can use to help children with executive function 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 functioning.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At this seminar, you will learn information about:

How executive functions develop during the school-age years

Executive functions and their roles in classroom behavior, learning and production

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

Executive function difficulties involved in clinical syndromes such as ADHD and autism

Providing appropriate interventions for executive functioning disorders in children and adults

Self-assessing both your own and your students’ personal executive function strengths and weaknesses

Gaining additional sources of information about assessment and interventions for executive functioning problems

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, school administrators, clinical and school psychologists, speech-language pathologists and educational, occupational and physical therapists.

George McCloskey, PhD

George McCloskey, PhD, is a Professor and Director of School 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.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

George McCloskey, PhD