Organized Thinking: Dealing with the Dreaded Homework Assignment

Friday, October 21, 2011

Organized Thinking: Dealing with the Dreaded Homework Assignment and Everything Else a Student Wants to Postpone!

This workshop focuses on executive functioning skills and related practical strategies to track and tackle homework and other deadline-based duties.

The vast majority of students with social cognitive deficits have immense difficulty developing organizational skills to manage the increasing complex expectations of life in upper elementary, middle, high school and into their adult years.

Organizational skills are a set of executive functioning skills that develop through experience and minimal prompting for neurotypical students. These same skills can be mammoth overwhelming tasks for even our most intellectually sharp students with social cognitive deficits. The impact of poor organizational skills is immense, affecting one’s outcome in school as well as at home and work. Weak organizational skills are poorly understood and often written off as pure laziness on the part of a “smart” student. Relatively little support is given to teach students to develop these critical skills that carry over into their future jobs and home-life as adults.


Continental Breakfast & Lunch Provided
Workshop LocationGreater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center1500 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402

http://www.socialthinking.com/workshops/workshops/tacoma-workshops