Executive Skills Coaching: What Parents Should Know

Executive skills refer to the cognitive processes required to plan and organize activities, including task initiation and follow-through, working memory, sustained attention, performance monitoring, impulse inhibition, and goal-directed persistence. This handout offers a succinct overview of how executive skills coaching works and the role parents can play in supporting the process. —From Coaching Students with Executive Skills Challenges, Second Edition, by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare.