The ExQ Blog

Executive Function in Everyday Life!

By Sucheta Kamath, MA, CCC-SLP

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Key to Superior Problem-Solving Skills

With ExQ, students learn that personal problem-solving is their ability to understand and identify complex personal problems in their environment, assess relevant information,…

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Cultivate Mental Flexibility for Resilience and Adaptive Thinking in Students

With ExQ, students learn that Mental Flexibility is their ability to deal with the unexpected by considering alternative options or what other people see, adjusting behaviors, readjusting emotional coping, and then going with the flow to ultimately…

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Boost Self-Awareness for Confident, Reflective, and Emotionally Savvy Students

Self-awareness is a student's capacity to recognize and understand their emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and how they impact themselves and others. It involves…

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Strategic Thinking for Enhanced Student Success

What is Strategic Thinking in an educational setting? Strategic Thinking is a student's ability to plan, make decisions, and take action to achieve their goals. It can help students improve their academic performance, prepare for their careers, and…

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Linking Focus Skills to Success in College and Careers

Focus skills are essential for students to learn and progress academically. They are the building blocks of learning! Focus is an Executive Function ability composed of three separate but closely related skills: task initiation, sustained attention, and task persistence. It involves...

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The Games People Play

When we lived in Boston, one my favorite stores to visit was, and still is, Games People Play. They sell puzzles and games (maybe a bit overpriced). I have spent countless hours in places…

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What it means to Remember to Remember

When Winston Churchill said, “Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning,” He was probably referring to prospective memory. Here’s a quick personal story…

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Minding the Gap: Behavior & Performance Achievement

Starting the school year with a bang is everyone’s top priority. However, all those who are in the business of educating students know a notable pattern emerges within the first two-three weeks. Two sets of learners show up: those who are ...
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Thinking Diary: The Concept of a Performance Diary for Executive Function Strategies

Recently, I read an interesting article written by Alan Shipnuck on the pro-golfer, Luke Donald, who rose to success in spite of experiencing setbacks. The author attributed Luke Donald’s success...
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What is Implicit?

What is Implicit? If you get your neighbor’s mail would you return it unprompted?

I have a little informal experiment that I have set up in my office to see how in-tune my students are with their surroundings and regarding implicit expectations. The parents who accompany them...
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We All Are Natural Copycats: Rock-Paper-Scissors & Classroom Behaviors

We All Are Natural Copycats: Rock-Paper-Scissors & Classroom Behaviors

A while ago, in a paper published by cognitive neuroscientist Richard Cook from the UCL Department of Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Science, players of the game rock-paper-scissors subconsciously...
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Learning by Observation: Teachable Moments

Learning by Observation: Teachable Moments

Saturday is a workday for folks in India. When I was in high school, my father used to take my brother and I to his office for hours on end. He worked as a materials manager wheeling and dealing with hydrochloric acid and benzene.
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