7 Engaging Activities for Parents to Foster Children's Self-Regulation Skills with Cognitivities

Lynne Kenney, PsyD & Alice Li, BS Boston College Recently an occupational therapist who attended our executive function workshop in...

Incorporate Music, Art, and Movement for Self-Regulation with Cognitivities.

When we think of music, often what comes to mind, is a song. We may think of Broadway musicals, Bach, or Taylor Swift. In our minds,...

Over the past 20 years, we have developed engaging cognitive-motor & executive function activities to help clinicians and educators who...

Incorporating music, rhythm, and motor movement to strengthen executive function in children is an effective way to “Power-Up” children’s...

Physical Education (PhysEd) programs in elementary schools play a vital role in promoting learning, academic achievement, social skills,...

Executive Function Skills contribute to phonological processing, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. Neurobiological and...

The role of executive function skills in reading and math is becoming better known in education. Understood in the clinical treatment of...

Crossing the midline refers to the ability to reach across the body's vertical midline with one hand or foot to perform tasks on the...

In light of requests by some of the parents, teachers, and clinicians in our Executive Function community we have developed a few...

Our esteemed colleagues Kyle Bragg and Megaera Regan are at Shape America Seattle this week. They have been tweeting about teaching...

Sensory-motor skills and perceptual-motor skills are two closely related but distinct concepts in motor learning and performance....

Research on the development of executive function (EF) and early competencies in mathematics has suggested a substantial relationship...

If you are an Educator the BIG Conversation is... About school districts shifting their reading interventions to align with an enormous...

Executive Function Skill deficits impact up to 80% of children ages 3-17 who have ADHD, Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia, Developmental...

While the rate of executive function deficits in the general population of school children is unknown, 40% of children with dyslexia have...

This is my favorite quote from our work at Wellington-Alexander Center, "Executive Functions are Cognitive Skills and Cognitive Skills...

We know that physical activity is beneficial for health, stress reduction, social relationships, and cognition. Yet, our children are...

Research in the past 20 years has shown a meaningful relationship between moving in time to a beat and symptomology in ADHD, Autism,...