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Train Your Brain for Success: A Teenager's Guide to Executive Functions Paperback – April 1, 2012

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Executive functions are a set of thinking, problem-solving, and self-control skills that tell the brain what to do, and this book demonstrates the ways kids use executive functions in school, at home, and in their other activities and shows how these skills can be improved through sustained effort. Beginning with a test to determine executive-functioning strengths and weaknesses, the book then explores in detail eight distinct sets of skills, including planning, organization, focus, time management, self-control, flexibility, memory, and self-awareness. In addition to giving an overview of each executive-functioning skill and how these skills are used in the real world, the book—intended as a self-directed learning guide for students themselves—also provides teens tools and tips for improving executive functions, including how to use video games, iPods, cell phones, and other electronic media to their advantage. A section for teachers and parents who may be dealing with a teenager with one or more executive dysfunctions is also included, as well as information for teens on how to recognize when they need help and where to go for help when a problem arises.

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"Fills an important gap in clinical practice by providing adolescents with practical, user-friendly strategies to improve their organizational, planning, memory, and time-management skills. . . . Dr. Kulman has done an excellent job of interweaving his wealth of clinical experience with empirically based research in describing strategies that teenagers can use independently or in collaboration with their parents." —George J. DuPaul, PhD, professor of school psychology and chair, department of education and human services, Lehigh University

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Randy Kulman, PhD, is the founder and president of LearningWorks for Kids, an educational technology company that specializes in using video games to teach executive-functioning and academic skills. For the past 25 years, Dr. Kulman has also been the clinical director and president of South County Child and Family Consultants, a multidisciplinary group of private practitioners that specializes in assessment and interventions for children with learning disorders and attention difficulties. He is the author of numerous essays on the use of digital technologies for improving executive-functioning skills in children and is the coauthor of a chapter in the book Designing Games for Ethics: Models, Techniques, and Frameworks. He lives in Wakefield, Rhode Island.

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April 1, 2012
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1886941769
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Specialty Press/A.D.D. Warehouse; Original edition (April 1, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 100 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1886941769
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1886941762
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - 12
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #122,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #25 in Teen & Young Adult Psychology
- #44 in Teen & Young Adult School & Education
- #2,258 in Success Self-Help

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Randy Kulman, Ph.D. is the Founder and President of LearningWorks for Kids, an educational technology company that specializes in using video games to teach executive-functioning and academic skills. For the past 25 years, Dr. Kulman has also been the Clinical Director and President of South County Child and Family Consultants, a multidisciplinary group of private practitioners that specializes in assessment and interventions for children with learning disorders and attention difficulties.

Additionally, Dr. Kulman is the author of numerous essays and book chapters on the use of digital technologies for improving executive-functioning skills in children. His current research projects include the development of a parent and teacher scale for assessing executive-functioning skills in children and a large survey study examining how children with ADHD and Autism use popular video games and apps. He is an advisor and occasional writer for ADDitude Magazine, Commonsensemedia.org, Toca Boca and also writes columns for Inside ADHD and the South County Independent. He is the author of two books; Train Your Brain for Success: A Teenager's Guide to Executive Functions and Playing Smarter in a Digital World.

To learn more about LearningWorks for Kids go to our website at www.learningworksforkids.com and check it out!

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Neil Brandon

A Solid Contribution

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2012

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This book packs a wealth of information into a practical, readable format. The author has a talent for simplifying potentially complex concepts into clearly understandable segments. He first introduces a simple survey to identify executive functions that the reader most needs to strengthen. He then works methodically through the eight executive functions, explaining each one in detail in terms of how it helps, how to grow it, and how a child can help themself to improve each particular function. He includes appropriate suggestions to utilize modern technology such as search engines and social media. He concludes with valuable, concise recommendations to parents that will help them form a partnership with their child to work on executive functions constructively.
Overall, I highly recommend this book for teachers, families, and students facing issues with paying attention, self-control, and problem solving skills. It is a solid contribution to the field.

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My3EEEs

Great for teens, but...

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2020

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I got this for my 14-year-old and purchased a second copy for her therapist. They go over it in session. I did this because if I had tried to review it with my daughter, there would have been eye rolling and tension; if I asked my daughter to read it for herself, it wouldn’t have happened. Great book - but I wouldn’t trust a teen to read it on their own.

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njm

An easy read for students 12 and older

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2016

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An easy read for students 12 and older. A good read for parents reading with a child 8-11 years of age.

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tchcdon

So Very Practical!

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2012

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Over my 20 years of primary care practice, I have seen the social and mental health consequences of teens with poor executive function. This book offers step-by-step very practical tools that teens can do on their own. Its down to earth, sometimes folksy, style draws in the reader. By being so concrete and concise, it's a book both teens and their parents can easily understand. Almost every chapter (organized by the particular skill one wants to work on) has suggestions for incorporating technology which speaks directly to this digital generation. I would expect high school teachers and guidance counselors to find this book enormously valuable as well.

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judy

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2015

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Hard to understand

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bootsie

Very helpful easy to understand

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2015

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My son has high functioning aspergers. We co-read this book for a book report and found the info extremely helpful w/questionairs to help put into order what needs to be worked on the from the most to the least and helps the child be reflective about his own self. Highly recomend this very easy to read and understand book.

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Dave Critzer

easy to read

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2015

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The auther is very clear in providing an outline for success. The prose is succint, easy to read, and extremly helpful for teens and adults who struggle with issues of organization and study skills , regardless of the reason. Highly recommended.

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John

Huge blobs of dry text

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2015

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This book is blobs of text. It's the kind of painful lesson nobody wants. It contains some good information--a few post-it notes extracted from pages and pages of garbage--and not too much completely-backwards thinking, but it presents it in such a way as to bore and annoy the user.

The writing particularly bothers me because it reflects how my own informative writing looks: sloppy, disorganized, verbose, and unapproachable. I don't mean to say it's full of bad grammar and scattered thoughts; and the chapters and sections are organized fine. By stylistic guidelines based on how readers process text, sentences and paragraphs should follow certain forms: active-voice; lead up to the most important information; start and end paragraphs on the same thought, compacting summaries of the information to follow and just covered; and, above all, convey the information in as short a manner as effective. Huge paragraphs mulling back and forth over a single thought just confuse and bore the reader while conveying next to nothing.

Randy does make good use of an informative writing style of prompting: he tells the user to think about specific experiences, and occasionally asks questions. These are good things for informative writing, the kind of thing most dry, wordy textbooks miss. He also includes some good information, and I will incorporate this into my own text on the subject. I would not give this book to any child or young adult, as it will quickly put them off.

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