Recording of Lydia H. Soifer, PhD: Practical Applications of Executive Functions for the Classroom Webinar
Presenter: Lydia H. Soifer, PhD
All of us have a built in capacity to meet challenges and accomplish goals through the use of high-level cognitive functions called executive skills. These are skills that help us decide what activities or tasks we will pay attention to and which ones we will choose to do. Our executive functions allow us to organize our behavior over time and override immediate demands in favor of long term goals.
Weak executive functions (EF), often experienced by children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) will make it more difficult to learn and perform appropriately in the classroom. This workshop will offer background information on the nature of the EF, what roles they play, how they manifest in the classroom, as well as what happens when executive functions are disrupted. We will conclude with a presentation of strategies that can be successfully used and taught in the classroom to facilitate learning for children with weak EF.
PRESENTER BIO:
Dr. Soifer is a language pathologist with nearly 50 years of experience in clinical and private practice, as well as university teaching. For its highly respected and valued 25-year tenure, Dr. Soifer was the founder and director of The Soifer Center for Learning and Child Development, which was the first multidisciplinary private diagnostic and remedial setting established in Westchester County. Dr. Soifer continues to provide educational consultation and advocacy services to families on behalf of their children, in coordination with other professionals and schools. As a parent educator, teacher trainer, and staff developer, she specializes in the role of language in the development of children's learning, literacy, behavior, and social-emotional development. Classroom Language Dynamics ©, the teacher training program Dr. Soifer designed is used in a variety of school settings to empower teachers and invigorate learners of all kinds. A frequent presenter at local, national and international conferences, Dr. Soifer focuses on guiding all educational professionals to answer the essential question, “Who is this child?” She is also the author of a chapter entitled, The Development of Oral Language and its Relationship to Literacy for a textbook published in September 1999 by Brookes, Multisensory Structured Language Teaching: Theory and Practice, now published in a 4th edition, as well as a contributor to local publications. A respected educator, Dr. Soifer is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, CT and the Gateway School of New York, in New York City. Additionally, she is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and faculty member in the Early Intervention Training Institute (EITI), both at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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