Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 8am – 4:30pm EST

Practical strategies to develop independent executive function skills.

Speaker:
Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC/SLP has over 25 years of experience in the treatment of executive dysfunction. Sarah is an internationally recognized expert on executive function and presents seminars on the programs and strategies she has developed with her Co-Director Kristen Jacobsen. Their 360 Thinking Executive Function Program received the Innovative Promising Practices Award from the National Organization CHADD. She has presented to over 1800 public and private schools and organizations worldwide. In recognition of their global influence in the field of twice-exceptional learning, Sarah and Kristen Jacobsen were the honored recipients of the Nancy Tarshis Legacy Fellowship Award. Further solidifying their status as eminent figures in their field, Sarah and Kristen were named one of the Top 10 Professional Development Providers for 2023 by Education Technology Insights Magazine.

Who should attend:
Speech and Language Pathologists who work with children and adolescents in hospitals, schools, private practice, home and community settings.

Session schedule / agenda:
8-9:30 a.m. --  Welcome and Disclosures/Future Thinkers: A New View of Executive Function Skills
9:30-10 a.m. -- Being a Beat Ahead: Following Routines, Initiating Tasks, Making Transitions and Managing Materials
10-10:15 a.m. -- Morning Break
10:15 a.m.-Noon -- Being a Beat Ahead – Continued
Noon-1 p.m. --  Lunch
1-2 p.m. --  Time and Task Management
2-2:30 p.m. -- Teaching and Planning Skills: The Get Ready * Do * Done Model
2:30-2:45 p.m. -- Afternoon Break
2:45-4 p.m. -- The Get Ready * Do * Done Model (Continued)
4-4:30 p.m. -- Question and Answer Session and Closing Remarks

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• List 3 interventions to teach a student how to visualize complex tasks and then sequence and plan the requisite steps to complete tasks and academic work
• Summarize 4 methods for teaching a student the language of time, how to visualize and plan hourly and daily time
• Develop and explain an intervention program to foster a student’s ability to form more independent executive function skills by describing therapeutic activities to improve:
  • Situational awareness, self-talk and forethought
  • Self-regulation and following routines
  • Task planning, task initiation and transition within and between tasks
  • Active self-management of the factors related to the passage of time
  • Student management of materials
• Define how situational awareness, self-talk, forethought, gesture/movement and episodic memory are the foundational skills for successful task execution
• Describe the typical developmental course of the executive function skills
• Define the functional working definition of what is meant by the term “executive function skills” as it pertains to therapeutic interventions.

To obtain a certificate of completion and/or ASHA CEUs, attendees must:

• Attend/complete all 7 hours of the course. Sign-in/out will be required. Partial credit will not be given.
• Participate in all instructor-led course activities.
• Complete a post test
• Provide feedback via the course valuation form

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