Smart but Scattered. Guilford Press. 2008.

Lessons

• 1 How Did Such a Smart Kid End Up So Scattered? p.11
• 2 Identifying Your Child's Strengths and Weaknesses p.26
• 3 How Your Own Executive Skill Strengths and Weaknesses Matter p.46
• 4 Matching the Child to the Task p.59
• 5 Ten Principles for Improving Your Child's Executive Skills p.71
• 6 Modifying the Environment: A s for Antecedent p.81
• 7 Teaching Executive Skills Directly: B Is For Behavior p.92
• 8 Motivating Your Child to Learn and Use Executive Skills: C is for Consequence p.110
• 9 Advance Organizer p.121
• 10 Ready-Made Plans for Teaching Your Child to Complete Daily Routines p.130
• 11 Getting Ready in the Morning p.132
• 12 Bedroom Cleaning p.136
• 13 Putting Belongings Away p.139
• 14 Completing Chores p.141
• 15 Maintaining a Practice Schedule p.143
• 16 Bedtime p.146
• 17 Desk Cleaning p.148
• 18 Homework p.150
• 19 Managing Open-Ended Tasks p.153
• 20 Long-Term Projects p.155
• 21 Writing a Paper p.158
• 22 Studying for Tests p.162
• 23 Learning to Manage Tasks That Take Lots of Effort p.165
• 24 Organizing Notebooks/Homework p.167
• 25 Learning to Control His or Her Temper p.170
• 26 Learning to Control Impulsive Behavior p.173
• 27 Learning to Manage Anxiety p.175
• 28 Learning to Handle Changes in Plans p.178
• 29 Learning Not to Cry over Little Things p.181
• 30 Learning to Solve Problems p.184
• 31 Building Response Inhibition p.187
• 32 Enhancing Working Memory p.197
• 33 Improving Emotional Control p.205
• 34 Strengthening Sustained Attention p.214
• 35 Teaching Task Initiation p.222
• 36 Promoting, Planning, and Prioritizing p.231
• 37 Fostering Organization p.239
• 38 Instilling Time Management p.248
• 39 Encouraging Flexibility p.256
• 40 Increasing Goal-Directed Persistence p.265
• 41 Cultivating Meta-Cognition p.273
• 42 When What You Do is Not Enough p.282
• 43 Working with the School p.289
• 44 What's Ahead? p.297