Activity Description

This course provides participants with an understanding of executive functions in children, how they develop and present, how to assess them, and how to treat executive functions in children with a wide variety of developmental communication disorders.

Activity Audience

This course is for Speech-Language Pathologists.

Learning Outcomes

Participants who successfully complete this course will be able to:

• Explain the components and anatomy, and physiology of executive functions.
• Describe how the brain and executive functions develop and affect the growth of cognitive skills and self-control.
• Explain the components of executive functions disorders and the relationship to three other developmental disorders.
• Describe the assessment techniques for executive functions.
• Explain seven variables to consider when developing a treatment plan.

Host Requirements

1. Have a minimum of five participants.
2. Schedule your DVDs for Groups with LinguiSystems a minimum of 30 days prior to your in-service.  LinguiSystems is unable to accept late registrations.

Materials Provided

1. FREE Executive Functions in the Classroom DVD
2. Downloadable course handout
3. ASHA paperwork for those who wish to receive FREE ASHA CEUs
   • Attendance Roster
   • Course Evaluation form
   • Self-Assessment of Learning
   • ASHA CEU Participant Form
4. Completion certificate for all participants

Author Biography

Jill Fahy, CCC-SLP, is assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston, IL. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French before pursuing her master’s degree in speech pathology from the University of Illinois.  For a number of years, Jill worked as a medical SLP, treating mostly adults with acquired brain injuries.  She specialized in the treatment of cognitive impairments resulting from frontal lobe and right hemisphere lesions, particularly those high-level deficits, which affected vocational and community independence.

Jill is co-author of The Source© for Development of Executive Functions, published by LinguiSystems, Inc.  She is a nationally known speaker on the topic of executive function development and disorders.  At Eastern Illinois University, she is a highly-sought after diagnostician for children with disorders of right hemisphere development and concomitant executive function deficits, primarily for Asperger’s and nonverbal learning disorder.  Jill teaches courses in acquired language disorders, and developmental disorders of executive functions and the right hemisphere.

LinguiSystems, Inc. funded this presentation, Executive Functions in the Classroom, in its entirety.