{"id":4601,"date":"2024-02-01T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:34:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:34:20","slug":"help-your-child-build-executive-function-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/help-your-child-build-executive-function-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Your Child Build Executive Function Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/istock-1301605613-1280x853.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4608\" style=\"width:337px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/istock-1301605613-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/istock-1301605613-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/istock-1301605613-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/istock-1301605613-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>If your child has difficulty with starting or completing tasks, following directions, switching between activities or organizing their thoughts, they may struggle with executive function. Executive function refers to a set of skills that help us plan, make goals and finish activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re launching two weekly groups to help children build these skills. Participants will further develop their abilities in planning, remembering, organizing thoughts and self-monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>3:30-4 p.m. Thursdays: This playgroup for ages 6-8 focuses on creating a toolkit for kids to support executive function skills.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4-4:30 p.m. Wednesdays: This group for ages 9-12 focuses on developing strategies for kids to support improved executive function in daily life for academics, socialization and at home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, email <a href=\"mailto:smorse@speechandhearingassoc.com\">smorse@speechandhearingassoc.com<\/a> or talk with your SLP at Speech &amp; Hearing Associates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your child has difficulty with starting or completing tasks, following directions, switching between activities or organizing their thoughts, they may struggle with executive function. Executive function refers to a set of skills that help us plan, make goals and finish activities. We\u2019re launching two weekly groups to help children build these skills. Participants will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechandhearingassoc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}