executive functioning

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Across
  1. 3. Kids often - starting tasks if they think the experience or the outcome will be bad
  2. 12. set of mental skills that include working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control
  3. 13. what we should do about a childs behavior when they show struggles with tasks
  4. 16. lets us hold one thing in mind while doing something else
  5. 17. kids with this also have a difficult time starting and finishing tasks
  6. 18. makes it hard to try again
  7. 19. avoid this while child is trying to complete a task
  8. 20. provide this when there is not a natural one
Down
  1. 1. Kids who also have learning differences may starting tasks because the tasks are difficult.
  2. 2. Many kids with executive function challenges have trouble with
  3. 4. Kids don’t have - control of that chemical release, however.
  4. 5. hard to keep future rewards or possible longer-term -in mind
  5. 6. working memory problems may affect how well people can
  6. 7. ADHD - might help executive function struggles
  7. 8. teaches your child that we all do things we don’t want to because the consequence of not doing them can be worse.
  8. 9. executive function challenges is not just -
  9. 10. Help your child - of homework materials and deadlines
  10. 11. if a task is not - those with executive function challenges have trouble starting it
  11. 14. The brain uses - to carry messages from one neuron to the next
  12. 15. Kids with weak working memory skills tend to live too much in the here and -