Melt-down. Tantrum. Challenging behavior. Whatever you call it, at its core is the lack of skills needed to navigate emotional upset and/or disregulation. Self-Regulation is one of those all important executive function skills. It is "the ability to manage emotional upset and behavior", and a skill set that is particularly difficult to learn for children with language/communication disorders.
Our March/April SLP Online Book Club selection was Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism by Arthur Fleischmann, with contributions by Carly Fleischmann. "In a world of silence, communication is everywhere. You just have to know how to look." -- Carly Fleischmann
Autism, SLP Book Club | in books Have you ever gotten "lost" in the depths of Pinterest for longer than you care to admit? Task management, an important executive function skill, is all about understanding the passage of time. It is understanding that everything we do takes time; learning how to estimate how long a task or activity will take; recognizing that if...
behavior, executive function, time | in Language 