Seminar Detail
Late, Lost & Unprepared: Executive Dysfunction & the Disorganized Child/Adolescent
- Where:
- CLEVELAND, OH
- When:
- Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Course Description:
Executive dysfunction is common in students with ADHD, LD and PDD and poses very real challenges for therapists, teachers and parents. Many of these children are extremely variable in their day-to-day functioning, which makes it hard to determine if they can’t succeed independently or are just unmotivated. Children and adolescents with executive dysfunction are often viewed as lazy, forgetful or not trying hard enough and are frequently brighter than their performance suggests.
Dr. Laurie Dietzel uses humor and case examples to differentiate between brain-based deficits and a lack of motivation and to develop the knowledge and skills you need to assist disorganized children and their parents. Using a long-term developmental perspective, she will focus on capitalizing on strengths and compensating for weaknesses. Learn to help frustrated and overwhelmed parents and teachers manage kids with executive dysfunction and set realistic expectations. Most important, help children and adolescents understand the reasons for their frustration, confusion and distress, so that they can benefit from support and participate in appropriate interventions.
Executive dysfunction is common in students with ADHD, LD and PDD and poses very real challenges for therapists, teachers and parents. Many of these children are extremely variable in their day-to-day functioning, which makes it hard to determine if they can’t succeed independently or are just unmotivated. Children and adolescents with executive dysfunction are often viewed as lazy, forgetful or not trying hard enough and are frequently brighter than their performance suggests.
Dr. Laurie Dietzel uses humor and case examples to differentiate between brain-based deficits and a lack of motivation and to develop the knowledge and skills you need to assist disorganized children and their parents. Using a long-term developmental perspective, she will focus on capitalizing on strengths and compensating for weaknesses. Learn to help frustrated and overwhelmed parents and teachers manage kids with executive dysfunction and set realistic expectations. Most important, help children and adolescents understand the reasons for their frustration, confusion and distress, so that they can benefit from support and participate in appropriate interventions.
Objectives:
- Explain the mental control processes referred to as the executive functions.
- Practice ability to identify executive dysfunction in children and adolescents with and without ADHD, LD and PDD.
- Describe the role of executive skills in academic and social functioning.
- Describe how to accommodate and strengthen weak planning and organizational skills.
- Describe at least 5 ways to help children and adolescents who struggle with homework completion.
LAURIE C. DIETZEL, PHD
Laurie Dietzel, Ph.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist in private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland. She has expertise in the diagnosis of ADHD, LD, executive dysfunction and the developmental course of the executive functions. Dr. Dietzel works with parents, teachers, other professionals and students to promote the development of realistic expectations and reasonable supports for students with ADHD, LD, PDD, and other neurodevelopmental disabilities. The co-author of Late, Lost and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning, she has also published articles on executive functioning and presented at national conferences in the areas of learning disabilities, ADHD, and executive dysfunction.
Dr. Dietzel earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She has worked in day and residential schools for children and adolescents with ADHD, PDD, learning disabilities, cognitive disabilities, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Dietzel served as director of Diagnostic Services at Kingsbury, a private nonprofit educational organization in Washington D.C., and has provided training for regular and special education teachers, psychologists, diagnosticians, and parents on a wide range of developmental and assessment topics.
Dr. Dietzel earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She has worked in day and residential schools for children and adolescents with ADHD, PDD, learning disabilities, cognitive disabilities, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Dietzel served as director of Diagnostic Services at Kingsbury, a private nonprofit educational organization in Washington D.C., and has provided training for regular and special education teachers, psychologists, diagnosticians, and parents on a wide range of developmental and assessment topics.
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
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