Different Skill Notebook

What are Executive Function "cognitive control" skills and why are they so important?

Self-Control Skills

 

When there is a skill weakness in the executive function skill category it impacts learning and overall ability to achieve goals. It is important to identify in which skills group in this category is impacted in order to have a targeted equipping. Typically executive function skills are viewed as organizational and planning abilities. This skill group encompasses several mental processes that impact overall learning and social competency and is not limited to just organization and planning. We will define this skill group in detail.  In the process this will expand your understanding and assist you in improving you skill set in this area. 

Cognitive (Self) Control "Executive Function" to Build

Executive Function is a set of mental processes that have to do with managing oneself and one's resources in order to achieve a goal and involves mental control and self-regulation (Jericho, 2012);

Working memory: holding information in mind while performing tasks

Cognitive flexibility: to move freely from one situation to another and to think flexibly in order to respond appropriately to the situation (adapt)

• • helps us to sustain or shift attention in response to different demands or to apply different rules in different settings

Inhibitory control (includes self-control)  the ability to stop one’s own behavior at the appropriate time, including stopping actions and thoughts

• • enables us to set priorities and resist impulsive actions or responses

Executive skills resulting from the above three processes (Rodden, 2020) :

• attention/focus: is sustained attention is the ability to maintain attention despite distractibility, fatigue or boredom
• abstract reasoning/concept formation/saliency determination: the ability to make connections, synthesize and categorize information.
• emotional regulation/control is the process of recognizing and controlling feelings or reactions to feelings (ability to modulate emotional responses by bringing rational thought to bear on feelings)
• self-monitoring is the ability to monitor and evaluate your own performance and to measure it against some standard of what is needed or expected
• task initiation is the ability to recognize when to get started on something and begin without procrastinating
  • organization is the ability to create and maintain systems to keep track information and materials
  • planning/prioritizing the ability to create steps to reach a goal and to make decisions about what to focus

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Work Cited

Rodden, Janice. What is Executive Function Disorder? Additudemag. May 11, 2020; https://www.additudemag.com/what-is-executive-function-disorder-

Jericho Schools. August, 2012. Executive Functioning: A Handbook for Grades K-12; http://www.jerichoschools.org/

What is the different skill notebook?

What is the different skill notebook? 

 

Thinking back to when you were in high school or college did you have a classmate that took amazing notes. They loved their notes and took so much time to make the notes look like work of art. Interestingly enough there are several blogs on tumbler on journaling.  Where individuals share their amazing journals and lists. The different skill notebook is my notebook with my notes from the last 15 years detailing a skill map to adaptability and self-sufficiency.  

My name is Ana Anselma I am the owner and co-founder of the Social Mind Center in Davie, Florida. We want to invite you to our Center's family room. Our Center has an amazing family room with a coffee bar. We want you to join the smart conversations we have in our family room. So grab a cup of coffee listen for a brief 10-15 minutes more often under 10 minutes and get some smart notes. 

You learn about the social competency skills that lead to adaptability and social competency. Adaptability is the most valued skill by employers and now in the age of COVID adaptability will be an even more vital skill.

I will share my family's story with ASD and the stories of hundreds of families that have been part of our Center.

The skill groups we will explore are:

• Social Language:  words to use in different situations
  • using language for different purposes
  • changing language per needs of listener and situation
  • rules of conversation and storytelling 
• Social Cognition: mental processes in perceiving, attending, remembering, think about and making sense of people in the social world (Moscowitz, 2005).
  • Attention
  • Theory of Mind -attribute mental states, beliefs, intents, desires and emotions, knowledge to oneself and others, and to other understand that others have beliefs, desires, intentions and perspectives that are different from one's own
  • Emotional Competence: refers to essential social skills to recognize, interpret, and respond constructively to emotions of yourself and others
• Executive Function "Cognitive Control" is a set of mental processes that have to do with managing oneself and one's resources in order to achieve a goal and involves mental control and self-regulation (Jericho, 2012)
  • Working memory
  • Cognitive flexibility
  • Inhibitory control/ impulse control
    • attention/focus
    • emotional regulation/ control
    • self-monitoring
    • task initiation 
      • organization
      • planning and prioritizing

Thank you for listening please visit us www.socialmindcenter.com for more different skill notebook pages.