Executive Functioning

4. Helping your child stay _______ can help encourage them to do the work that they don't want to do.
5. Experts recommend a combination of medication and _________ for ADHD.
7. Working memory problems may affect how well they can _________________.
8. Kids who also have learning ________ may avoid starting tasks because the tasks are difficult.
9. How many parts are there in paying attention?
11. Kids with ADHD have _________ interest levels.
15. A learning difference that make it hard to read and spell.
17. Kids often avoid starting tasks to avoid ___________ that they have felt in the past.
18. Kids who MAINLY have trouble focusing.
19. The brain uses _________ impulses to carry messages from one neuron to the next.
20. For a long time, people thought ADHD was something only kids, especially ______ in particular.

1. Some kids who struggle with focus may look like they're _______________.
2. The process that allows us to take information in.
3. the management system of the brain
6. Does ADHD go away as you get older?
10. The release of certain brain _____________ help make those connections.
12. Something that allows us to hold one thing in mind while doing something else.
13. ____________ medication can be short acting, which means pills can be taken 2 to 3 times a day.
14. Kids with ADHD have difficulty focusing, but also be _____________ on things they're very interesting in.
16. Many kids with executive functioning skills may also have ____________.