Executive Functioning

This article helps parents understands how to help children with ADHD overcome feeling of overwhelm.

Executive Function Disorder (EFD) also referred as Executive Dysfunction is a term used to describe difficulties with the brain's ability to manage and regulate a set of mental processes known as executive functions. These functions help you plan, organize, make decisions, pay attention, manage time, control impulses and regulate emotions- essentially, they are the brain's "management system". Key Executive Functions: Common areas that are affected by EFD are: Planning and or