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| Strategy 1 | Strategy 2 | Strategy 3 |
| Strategy 4 | Strategy 5 | Strategy 6 |
| Strategy 7 | Strategy 8 | Strategy 9 |
| Strategy 10 |
Strategy 1: Self-Identifying Executive Functional Skills
Sample Tools
- Executive Skills Questionnaire by Dawson and Guare
- Life Skills Advocate Planning Assessment
- Life Skills Advocate Planning Assessment – Smiley-O-Meter Version
Related Resources
- VIDEO – Smart But Scattered
- BOOK – Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention
Strategy 2: Implementing Familiar Routines and Materials
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – Supporting Students’ Working Memory
- PODCAST – Ways You May Be Cognitively Overloading Your Students
Strategy 3: Decorating Learning Spaces Purposefully
Related Resources
- VIDEO – Heavily decorated classrooms disrupt attention and learning in young children
- ARTICLE – Do’s and Don’ts on Designing for Accessibility
- ARTICLE – 7 ways to support executive function in your classroom
Strategy 4: Designing Flexible Learning Spaces
Sample Tool
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – “Campfires, Caves, and Watering Holes” by David Thornburg
- VIDEO – A.T.TIPScast Episode #61: Room (Re-) Arranging
- VIDEO – The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning through Movement by Michael Kuczala, TEDxAshburn
- VIDEO – Brain Rules Exercise by John Medina
Strategy 5: Traversing a Sensory Path
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – DIY Sensory Path and Motor Path
- ARTICLE – Sensory Paths and Sensory Stations
Strategy 6: Defaulting to Digital Materials
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – Best Practices In Assessing and Improving Executive Skills
- VIDEO – Executive Function Skill #2: Organization
Strategy 7: Consolidating Environmental Supports for Easy Access
Related Resources
- RESEARCH – Visual supports at home and in the community for individuals with autism spectrum disorders: A scoping review.
- RESEARCH – Enhancing the Educational Environment: Improving Student Outcome Using Visual Supports
Strategy 8: Supporting Transitions with Visual Schedules
Related Resources
- ARTICLE – Transition Time: Helping Individuals on the Autism Spectrum
- ARTICLE – Using a Visual Schedule
- RESEARCH – The efficacy of visual activity schedule intervention in reducing problem behaviors in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder between the age of 5 and 12 years: A systematic review.
Strategy 9: Regulating Background Volume with Visual Feedback
Related Resources
- VIDEO – Digital visual feedback modulators
- RESEARCH – Effects of an Ambient Learning Display on Noise Levels and Perceived Learning in a Secondary School
- RESEARCH – The Impact of Noise on Learning in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis
Strategy 10: Personalizing Ambient Background Noise or Music
Related Resource
- ARTICLE – How background noise affects productivity – https://krisp.ai/blog/background-noise-and-productivity/
- ARTICLE – The Power of Ambient Noise: Boosting Focus, Creativity, and Productivity –
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