Deficits in executive functioning are affecting student success daily in our elementary and secondary schools. These deficits often go unidentified and instead our children are described as forgetful, lazy, disorganized or worse.

Having a fulsome understanding of a child's strengths and needs, how his / her particular brain works, is imperative to a child's academic, social and emotional success both at school and in life.

In this episode, Jacqueline Bissonnette and I discuss how these deficits are impacting our children at school as well as tools and strategies that can be effective in supporting these learners.

ABOUT JACQUELINE

Jacqueline has been working in Psychology for the last 22 years where she has gained lots of experience in working with a variety of children and their families, to provide assessment and consultation. The past 12 years have been within the school setting. Prior to that Jaci was with a community Children’s Centre for 10 years. Growing up in a small town in Ontario Jaci never would have guessed that her interest in education and psychology would bring her to this career. Working with students with a variety of profiles, developmental disabilities, learning disorders and autism (to name a few), has kept her job ever changing and so rewarding!

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