Request an Appointment
English: 650.688.3625
Medi-Cal: 650.688.3650
Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom (What Works for Special-Needs Learners)
This book helps teachers incorporate executive function processes—such as planning, organizing, prioritizing, and self-checking—into the classroom curriculum. Chapters provide effective strategies for optimizing what K–12 students learn by improving how they learn. Read more >>
Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention
More than 100,000 school practitioners and teachers (K–12) have benefited from the step-by-step guidelines and practical tools in this go-to resource. Read more >>
Executive Functioning Modules for College Students [downloadable]
Almost all students struggle at one time or another with focus, paying attention, organizing, prioritizing, and completing projects or papers. These modules from the University of Wisconsin–Madison focus on increasing self-awareness and improving your ability to pay attention and focus, Read more >>
How to Boost Executive Function in Teens
When adults support development of teens’ executive function skills during the critical years of adolescence, it can have a lifelong impact. Read more >>
Executive Functioning Issues and Learning: Ways to Help Your Child After High School
Executive functioning issues don’t go away after high school. They’ll continue to have an impact on your child, whether she’s in college or trade school, on the job or navigating everyday situations. Helping your child learn to manage challenges doesn’t Read more >>
Guiding Students to Improve Executive Functioning Skills
Executive function needs become more complex among high school students as their life roles evolve. Too often, chaos results as they use self-management approaches they have outgrown, like keeping track of their assignments in their heads. Read more >>
Potentia Institute: My Brain Explained [web resource]
Knowledge is power. It enables us to find our right fit, strengthen areas where we have challenges, seek support, advocate for ourselves and design our own learning or work environment. Yet, Information about our brains has not been readily available Read more >>
The Schwab Learning Center at CHC celebrates the fact that we all learn in a variety of ways. We help college and high school students with diverse learning challenges succeed in all areas of their lives. Read more >>
My Teen Struggles with Executive Function
It was January 2021. Our son Jack’s second term as a freshman in high school had just ended. Two weeks earlier, my husband and I scanned the school’s database to check his grades. We counted more than 20 missing assignments. Read more >>
Raising a Son with ADHD: One Mother’s Journey
CHC staff member Lauren Sims recounts her experience with raising a son who has ADHD—the challenges and the rewards—and offers advice for parents who may be just beginning their ADHD journey. Read more >>
English: 650.326.5530 | Español: 650.688.3650 | Fax: 650.688.3669
English: 650.326.5530
Español: 650.688.3650
Fax: 650.688.3669
English: 650.668.3625 | Español: 650.688.3650 | careteam@chconline.org
English: 650.668.3625
Español: 650.688.3650
careteam@chconline.org
© 2024 Children’s Health Council. All rights reserved.
CHC Palo Alto: 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304 | 650.326.5530
CHC South Bay: 2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128 | 408.831.7512
CHC Ravenswood: 1765 E Bayshore Rd, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 | 650.702.2487
CHC Palo Alto:
650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
650.326.5530
CHC South Bay:
2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
408.831.7512
CHC Ravenswood:
1765 E Bayshore Rd, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
650.702.2487
