EXECUTIVE FUNCTION ADVENTURES

Play based 1:1 sessions for primary aged children.

Play based 1:1 sessions for primary aged children.

A 10-session programme designed by psychologists and child development specialists to help children understand how their brains work and build essential skills like organisation, focus, and self-regulation.

Through engaging, play-based activities, children develop a personalised toolkit of strategies to navigate challenges and thrive in their everyday lives.

A 10-session programme designed by psychologists and child development specialists to help children understand how their brains work and build essential skills like organisation, focus, and self-regulation.

Through engaging, play-based activities, children develop a personalised toolkit of strategies to navigate challenges and thrive in their everyday lives.

Executive functions help us to…

  • Manage our time

  • Regulate our emotions

  • Develop systems to keep things tidy

  • Prioritise our workload

  • Resist temptations

  • Focus our attention

“Children’s executive function skills don’t fully develop until their late 20s, but support at any age can help.”

“Children’s executive function skills don’t fully develop until their late 20s, but support at any age can help.”

How do executive function challenges manifest in young children?

Children and young people with executive skills challenges are often bright and able, but find it difficult to manage their daily lives. These children are often seen as lazy and unmotivated which can often lead to the significant adults in their lives becoming increasingly frustrated by their apparent difficulty in doing the ‘basic things’ in life.

Problems with task initiation, time-management, planning and organisation, shifting and task monitoring can have a significant impact both academically and behaviourally. The result can be a young person who is isolated from the significant adults in their lives and achieving well below their potential in school.

How can the Executive Function Adventures (EFA) program help?

Find out more about our carefully designed and expertly delivered service.

Our Executive Function Adventures programme was born out of a desire to create an engaging and fun early intervention programme for children of primary school age and development. As believers in the benefits of early intervention, we identified that many children were struggling with their executive functions at home and in the classroom and needed support.

The programme combines one-to-one sessions with an executive function coach, alongside parent training in how to embed executive function skills development at home. By the end of the programme children and parents will have developed or improved their executive function literacy, and will also have practical strategies to use at home to foster improvements in executive function skills. When embedded over the long term children and parents have reported improved relationships at home and heightened self-confidence in using executive function skills at home and school.

Intro Session: Introductory meeting with the coach

Sessions 1-3: Teaching executive function skills using motivation

Sessions 4-6: Practicing executive function skills using a different area of motivation with added complexity

Sessions 7-10: Generalisation of executive function skills into the child’s environment; close liaison with parents

Research into the development of executive functioning clearly shows that new skills need to be generalised in a child’s environment; thus at Connections in Mind, we offer Parent Support coaching to help you support your child(ren)’s development at home.

Please contact us for more information about how we can help.

Book your free discovery call with one of our executive function specialists today to find out how we can support your child more specifically. As a part of the coach matching process, you will be able to schedule FREE chemistry sessions with up to 2 professional coaches of your choice.