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Fabian Gunnars – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2024
Digital technology in primary education can both be distracting and increase attentiveness. Many students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) have difficulties with skills that address attention, and teachers are expected to provide support. Such skills are referred to as Executive Function (EF) in neuroscience, relating to self-regulation,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Attention, Executive Function, Self Control
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Veldman, Sanne L. C.; Hammersley, Megan L.; Howard, Steven J.; Stanley, Rebecca M.; Okely, Anthony D.; Jones, Rachel A. – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
This study aimed to examine associations between gross motor skills and executive functions (EF) in a large sample of Australian preschool-aged children. Of 566 children (mean age = 3.2 ± 0.4 years, 51.2% girls), locomotor, object control, and total skill competence were significantly associated with visual spatial working memory and inhibition (p…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Self Management, Self Control, Executive Function
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Brown, Ted; Swayn, Emma; Pérez Mármol, José Manuel – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2021
Sensory processing and executive functioning have been studied extensively as individual concepts in primary school children, yet little literature exists that has examined the relationship between these two factors. This study investigated the association between sensory processing and executive functioning in school-aged children. Parents of 40…
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Elementary School Students, Executive Function, Correlation
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Bentley, Laura A.; Eager, Rebecca; Savage, Sally; Nielson, Cathy; White, Sonia L. J.; Williams, Kate E. – Developmental Science, 2023
The benefits of active music participation and training for cognitive development have been evidenced in multiple studies, with this link leveraged in music therapy approaches with clinical populations. Although music, rhythm, and movement activities are widely integrated into children's play and early education, few studies have systematically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Intervention
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Walker, Sue; Brownlee, Jo Lunn; Scholes, Laura; Harris, Clare – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2022
Research shows that epistemic cognition can support reasoning about the inclusion of diverse children. We argue that, to engage in such reasoning, children need the capacity to consider and evaluate competing knowledge perspectives (epistemic cognition) and to be cognitively flexible. Cognitive flexibility involves a subset of skills within the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Executive Function, Schemata (Cognition), Barriers
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Tanksale, Radhika; Sofronoff, Kate; Sheffield, Jeanie; Gilmour, John – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Research using mind-body practices in autism is limited but suggests a trend for ruminative reduction and improved behavioral-emotional outcomes. Following random assignment (N = 67), effects of a weekly six-session pilot yoga-based group program combined with third-wave cognitive behavioral therapy elements on self-regulation for children on the…
Descriptors: Relaxation Training, Physical Activities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Maas, Christene – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
As children with autism spectrum disorder become adults, social participation continues to be an area of need. Within creative arts, there is a growing body of literature about the use of theatre arts, improvisational theatre, and improvisational techniques as a way to address social participation for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. The…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Intervention
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Wagner, Bree; Olson, Heather Carmichael; Symons, Martyn; Mazzucchelli, Trevor G.; Jirikowic, Tracy; Latimer, Jane; Watkins, Rochelle; Cross, Donna; Boulton, John; Wright, Edie; Carter, Maureen; Bruce, Kaashifah; Cherel, Sue; Fitzpatrick, James – Australian Journal of Education, 2019
Self-regulation and executive functioning impairments are common in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Given the high rates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder identified amongst children living in the remote Fitzroy Valley region of Western Australia, the Alert Program® was identified as a culturally safe intervention for use in local…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Skill Development, Elementary School Students
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Wagner, Bree; Cross, Donna; Adams, Emma; Symons, Martyn; Mazzucchelli, Trevor G.; Watkins, Rochelle; Wright, Edie; Latimer, Jane; Carapetis, Jonathan; Boulton, John; Fitzpatrick, James P. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2020
Studies in north-western Australia Aboriginal communities identified executive functioning and behavioural regulation as significant issues for children. Exposure to alcohol prenatally and adverse childhood experiences are known risk factors for impaired self-regulation and executive function, these risk factors being present in remote…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Indigenous Populations, Self Control, Executive Function
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Howard, Steven J.; Okely, Anthony D. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
Although researchers agree that the first 5 years of life are critical for children's developing executive functions (EFs), further advances are hindered by a lack of consensus on the design and selection of developmentally appropriate EF tasks for young children. Given this debate, well-established adult measures of EF routinely have been adapted…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Inhibition, Executive Function, Self Control
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Effeney, Gerard; Carroll, Annemaree; Bahr, Nan – Educational Psychology, 2013
This study investigated relationships between SRL and EF in a sample of 254 school-aged adolescent males. Two hypotheses were tested: that self-reported measures of SRL and EF are closely related and that as different aspects of EF mature during adolescence, the corresponding components of SRL should also improve, leading to an age-related…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Males
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology