Strengthening the EXECUTIVE FUNCTION SKILLS of Your Students With Special Needs: Boost Focus, Improve Behavior, Strengthen Organization, and Enhance Emotional Regulation (Grades PK-8) Presented by Lisa Rogers Outstanding Educator and Nationally Recognized Speaker

Specifically Designed for Special Education Staff, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, General Education Classroom Teachers, School Psychologists, Counselors, and Other Educators Working With Students With Special Needs in Preschool Grade 8

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Students with special needs often face significant challenges related to executive function – skills essential for managing focus, behavior, organization, and memory. In this fast-paced and strategy-packed NEW seminar, Lisa Rogers will show you how to better understand executive function difficulties and their impact on learning and behavior. More importantly, you'll leave equipped with a wide range of practical, classroom-tested strategies you can use immediately to help your students boost focus, improve behavior, strengthen organization, and enhance working memory. Don't miss this valuable opportunity to gain tools that promote greater independence, improved task management, and increased academic success for your students with special needs.

You'll walk away with dozens of ready-to-use strategies you can implement tomorrow to make a meaningful difference.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Practical Strategies to Target Executive Function Challenges
   Learn to identify and address specific executive function challenges for students with special needs, focusing on time management, organization, and behavior
2. Improving Behavior, Independence and Emotional Regulation
   Discover techniques to foster independence in students, teaching them planning, implementation, self-evaluation, and effective strategies for emotional regulation
3. Adapting Instruction and Classroom Structure for Success
   Receive actionable tips and techniques to adapt your teaching and classroom environment, creating a supportive space for students with diverse executive function needs
4. Understanding the Link Between Executive Function and Behavior
   Gain insights into how executive function skills impact student behavior and learn practical solutions for improving impulse control, self-regulation, and self-management
5. Harnessing the Power of Visual Strategies
   Learn how to create and implement visual strategies to enhance understanding, information retention, and environmental awareness for students with special needs
6. Developing Organization, Planning, and Prioritization Skills
   Equip students with special needs with the tools and strategies they need to process information effectively, plan for success, and prioritize tasks
7. Reaching "Unmotivated" Students Through Executive Function Support
   Understand how executive function deficits can manifest as a lack of motivation and apathy, and learn practical strategies to teach essential skills
8. Evidence-Based Strategies Grounded in Brain Research
   Explore executive function strategies based on current research on how the brain processes information, and learn how to apply these findings to benefit students with special needs
9. Improving Key Executive Function Areas for Enhanced Learning
   Learn practical strategies to improve focus, organization, and working memory, leading to increased time on task, enhanced learning, and greater independence for students
10. Comprehensive Digital Resource Handbook
    Receive an extensive digital resource handbook and access to Lisa's online resources filled with strategies, ideas, research-based techniques, and practical tools to support your work with students with special needs

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Practical strategies to boost attention, focus, and impulse control in students with special needs
• Innovative, instructional strategies to help students develop organizational skills for managing time, tasks, schedules, assignments, and behavior
• Quick and easy visual strategies to support the development of key executive function skills
• Strategies to enhance social-emotional functioning through improved executive function skills
• Flexible problem-solving strategies tailored to the specific needs of students with special needs
• Effective emotional regulation strategies you can implement immediately
• Powerful, effective systems for developing essential study skills
• Dozens of memory strategies to support studying, test-taking, homework completion, and long-term project planning
• Clear definitions of key executive function skills and their impact on academic and social success
• Easily implemented strategies for immediate use in the classroom or resource room
• Proven ideas to help students plan homework, manage short- and long-term projects/assignments, and complete tasks successfully

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

If you work with students who struggle to stay on task, manage their materials, follow multi-step directions, or regulate their behavior, you are not alone. More and more students are coming into our classrooms with executive function challenges that impact their ability to succeed – and it can be overwhelming to know how best to support them.

That's why I've packed this day with highly practical strategies you can use right away. Everything I share comes from real classrooms and is designed to help your students with special needs build essential skills like focus, self-regulation, memory, and organization. Whether you're working with one student or many who need extra support, you'll leave with dozens of effective tools to help them grow more independent and confident in their learning.

You'll also receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with ready-to-use ideas, plus exclusive access to my online resources so you can continue your learning and support long after the seminar ends.

I know your time is valuable, and my goal is to make sure you walk away with strategies you can use tomorrow. I can't wait to share what works and spend the day learning alongside you!

Warmly,
Lisa Rogers

P.S. I'd love for you to join me for this energizing and practical day. Come ready to learn, laugh, and leave with a toolbox full of strategies to help your students succeed!

Who Should Attend

Special Education Staff, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, General Education Classroom Teachers, School Psychologists, Counselors, and Other Educators Working With Students With Special Needs in Preschool - Grade 8

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

• Step-by-step strategies for meeting the needs of your students with executive function deficits
• Multiple resources and next day ideas for organization, impulse control, memory, behavioral regulation, and attention
• Ideas for planning long-term projects, studying for tests, and homework completion, as well as organizing space, materials and time
• Easy techniques for teaching situational awareness, social planning, estimating time, and anxiety management
• Teacher-tested ideas to help students with special needs focus on academic tasks
• Ideas for specially designed instruction and accommodations
• How trauma and stress effect executive function performance and how to help
• Dozens of practical strategies for inclusive and special needs settings

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in strengthening the executive function skills of their students with special needs.

Consultation Available
Lisa Rogers will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

ASHA - CEUs


You will be required to fully attend the program, actively participate, and complete a self-assessment and program evaluation.

ASHA-Required Disclosure Statement for Lisa Rogers:
Presenter for the Institute for Educational Development and receives honorarium compensation.
No relevant nonfinancial relationships exist.

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