The birth to five period in childhood is critical for the foundational development of the executive function system. How children interact with and experience the world around them significantly impacts how their executive function system develops. This LIVE presentation examines what executive function development looks like in this early childhood period and ways to support its development.

The working memory system is a short-term retention and operating system that is critical to all learning, including language development. This LIVE presentation will highlight two key aspects of the working memory system (verbal and nonverbal working memory), the significance each aspect plays in childhood language development, language deficits that may arise when impairments in working memory are present, and ways to support working memory in therapy sessions and classrooms.

This LIVE presentation focuses on the considerations that schools need to factor into intervention for a child with executive function needs, including what tasks drain the EF battery the most, the problem of urgency, the impact of computer use on executive function, accommodations versus intervention, and quick changes that schools can make today that make a big difference in a child's executive function ability.