Practical Solutions for Strengthening Your Child's Executive Functioning Skills

On-Demand Class · Supporting development

This class is for parents of 7 - 18 year old children and adolescents who struggle with executive functioning skills due to ADHD or other neurodiversity. It offers practical solutions that can be implemented immediately.

Class Description

Practical Solutions for Strengthening Executive Functioning Skills in Children and Adolescents When you take this course, you are taking the first steps toward helping your child and your whole family to achieve improved executive functioning skills, success, and self-esteem. When your child is first diagnosed with ADHD and you begin to learn about the executive function challenges that go along with it, it probably feels like a relief to have an explanation for why your child struggles more than others. Executive functioning skills can be scaffolded, built, and strengthened over time with the right methods and support. Good news! This course gives you all the information that you need to do that in an easy, step-by-step format. It will inspire you into action! Practical Solutions for Strengthening Executive Functioning Skills in Children and Adolescents pulls you out of the overwhelm, empowering you to personalize what your child needs to build their executive functioning skills and get them on a path to greater independence. This course is appropriate for parents of children ages 7 – 18. In each section, we will Define three executive functioning skills Identify where your own child’s strengths and challenges are Suggest conversation starters around each executive functioning skill so you can engage and empower your child Learn strategies and systems for strengthening the skills Discover potential environmental modifications to increase success immediately And more! Are you ready to use practical solutions to help build your child’s executive functioning skills?

Sessions Overview

  1. Introduction: In this module, you will learn how to use the course in a way that will best benefit your family, whether you have younger children or teenagers. We introduce the executive functioning skills and why they are important and three ways that parents can help.
  2. Module 1: In this session we introduce the executive functioning skills Emotional Control, Impulse Control and Working Memory. You will learn how to strengthen the skill and how to help your child through environmental modifications.
  3. Module 2: In this session we introduce the executive functioning skills Task Initiation, Flexibility, and Sustained Attention. You will learn how to strengthen the skill and how to help your child through environmental modifications.
  4. Module 3: In this session we introduce the executive functioning skills Organization, Time Management, and Planning/Prioritizing. You will learn how to strengthen these skills and how to help your child through environmental modifications.
  5. Module 4: In this session we introduce the executive functioning skills Problem Solving, Goal-Directed Persistence, and Self-Awareness. You will learn how to strengthen these skills and how to help your child through environmental modifications.
  6. Conclusion: In this session we wrap up what you have gained from learning about each skill, how to strengthen it, and how to support your child and change how you, as the parent, respond and react to their struggles. We focus the last discussion on parent self-care during this process.

Your Instructor

Abigail WoolBiringer

Abigail Wool-Biringer holds a Master of Arts degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of Southern California. She has a special certification in ADHD and is also a life coach. She began working exclusively with pediatrics in 2010. In 2019, she began her own home-based therapy company, Kids Empowered 4 Life LLC with one goal: to work with children and adolescents with ADHD who often “fall through the cracks”. The struggles that the children face impact the whole family, and she knew that there were few resources available to them. Abigail found that one way to impact her clients the most was to work intensely with the entire family on their specific goals. She works with families and children of all ages, with a special interest in ADHD and its effects, such as challenging behaviors, executive skill weaknesses, social and relational struggles and more. She offers groups, one on one sessions, and parent coaching around Arizona and beyond. She loves teaching webinars to provide this valuable information to every family who is struggling.

Degrees and Certifications

1997 - Master of Arts in Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California 2019 - Rehabilitation Service Provider for ADHD clients, certification through PESI

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