neuropsychological assessment and intervention topics. Dr. McCloskey consults with a number of school districts and individual clients in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and California on issues related to improving students’ self-regulation capacities in the classroom and at home, behavior management, and assessment and intervention for executive function difficulties related to academic and behavior problems. Dr. McCloskey is the lead author of Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties and author of Essentials of Executive Function Assessment. Dr. McCloskey also has been involved in test development and publishing activities for more than 25 years. He 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 and Associate Director of Test Development for AGS. George McCloskey
Assessment and Intervention for Child and Adolescent Executive Function Difficulties
July 16-20, 2012
TThis presentation will provide a comprehensive perspective on definition, assessment and interventions for child and adolescent executive function difficulties. Among the topics covered will be: (1) a functional, multidimensional definition in the form of a comprehensive model of executive functions; (2) how executive function use varies based on domains of functioning (perception, emotion, thought and action); (3) how executive functions vary based on arena of involvement (intrapersonal, interpersonal, environment, symbol system); (4) the various roles of executive functions in classroom learning and production and everyday behavior; (5) the relationship of executive functions to childhood psychopathology and clinical diagnostic categories; (6) a multidimensional framework for assessing the executive function capacities of children and adolescents; (7) student and teacher classroom observation methods for improving academic production and classroom management; (8) a model for conducting functional behavior assessments and developing behavior support plans that are based on current knowledge of executive functions and cognition and their mediating effects on the connection between antecedents and behaviors; the EF-driven FBA model helps to frame the problem and the intervention in non-punitive, goal-oriented statements that can be monitored for effectiveness of outcomes; (9) intervention strategies that vary based on a continuum from degree of external control to degree of internal self-regulation; 10) the planning, implementation, and outcome assessment of school-, clinic-, and home-based interventions designed to deal with child and adolescent executive function difficulties. Case studies of children and adolescents demonstrating executive function difficulties will be discussed throughout the presentation.
Monday
Executive Functions: What they are and what they are not
A comprehensive model of Executive Functions
Development of executive functions during childhood and adolescence Executive Functions and Clinical Diagnoses
Executive Functions in the classroom, the community, and the home
Tuesday
Learning vs. Producing: The nature of producing disabilities in children
Assessing Executive Functions
- Part 1: EF and Cognition
- Part 2: EF and Academic Skills
Wednesday
Assessing Executive Functions
- Part 3: EF and Social/Emotional Functioning
- Part 4: EF and Adaptive Functioning
Thursday
Interventions for executive function difficulties
Part 1: Strategies for providing external guidance
Friday
Interventions for executive function difficulties
- Part 2: Strategies for helping develop internal self-regulation
- Part 3: Strategies for improving classroom assessment methods
