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When working on skills, use a

two-pronged approach:

Dr Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Dr Laurie Diestel advocate

a ‘two-pronged’ approach in addressing weaker

Executive Function (Control Centre) skills:

These take time to build.
Skills & They work best when the

Strategies child leads decision-making

on them.

Short-term Things to make the task or

situation easier. Needed
scaffolds & whilst the child builds the

adjustments necessary skills & strategies
to manage well.

The next six chapters explore each Executive Function

Skill separately, with lots of top tips on how to scaffold

and improve each one.