Executive Functioning Skills

The ability to focus on a chosen task.

• Attention

• Organization

• Metacognition

• Task Initiation

The ability to control your reactions to situation and be able to realize when you are out of control.

• Working Memory

• Organization

• Emotional control

• Attention

The ability to plan for a future goal and continue taking actions needed to achieve the future goal.

• Organization

• Planning/Prioritization

• Response Inhibition

• Gaol Directed Persistence

The ability to plan for a future goal and continue taking actions needed to achieve the future goal.

• Goal Directed Persistence

• Metacognition

• Task Initiation

• Working Memory

The ability to understand how people think and learn.

• Attention

• Metacognition

• Flexibility

• Time Management

The ability to create systems of order out of chaotic events and materials.

• Organization

• Task Initiation

• Flexibility

• Response Inhibition

The ability to hold onto information until it is needed.

• Working Memory

• Time Management

• Metacognition

• Emotional Control

The ability to switch expectations for plans and events

• Organization

• Metacognition

• Flexibility

• Time Management

The ability to select the most important tasks out of a series and crate a plan on how to accomplish a task.

• Response Inhibition

• Working Memory

• Planning and Prioritization

• Attention

The ability to stop oneself from an action

• Task Initiation

• Emotional Control

• Working Memory

• Response Inhibition