Featuring: Randy Kulman, Ph.D.
Leading expert & author of the best-selling books on executive functions: Playing Smarter in a Digital World and Train Your Brain for Success
For the past 30 years I have worked as a child clinical psychologist, primarily with kids diagnosed with attention, learning and social/emotional difficulties. Many of these kids do not fit the classic profiles of children with ADHD, LD or ASD but display problems with executive functions such as disorganization, forgetfulness, impulsivity, poor decision making and inconsistent effort. Early on in my career, I was frustrated with the lack of success I had with traditional interventions, so I began to search for approaches that motivate and engage these kids.
It became clear very quickly that video games, apps and other technologies not only captured their full attention but also required planning, organizational self-control, and other executive-functioning skills in order to be successful. I began to use games and apps in individual and group therapy to help kids improve their executive functions and later developed an interactive website to help parents, clinicians, and educators use these tools. I started to include other activities that kids already enjoy such as exercise, yoga, and meditation as tools for improving executive functions.
Suddenly, these kids were interested in self-improvement. Kids who could never find their completed homework, could organize and pack their bags for an overnight trip. Kids who fought with their parents all summer long about reading programs were choosing to read additional books on their own. These tools completely changed my assessment and the types of interventions that I used. I saw kids who previously struggled to get passing grades turn into honor students.
It took me years to learn and hone these strategies, and in this workshop I will teach you how to turn game-based skills and activities into effective clinical techniques. You will find that once you start employing activities that kids enjoy, they will keep on using these tools and often won’t stop talking and thinking about what they are doing.
Using these strategies will transform the way you work with kids who have executive function deficits, making them partners in their work with you. This seminar will provide you with practical strategies that you can take home to your practice or classroom. Most of the tools we will use will have videos, handouts, and online links, so you can use them in your practice the next day. You will learn that you don’t need to be an expert in gaming or a master yogi to use these techniques. You are likely to find that when you use these strategies you become the most popular therapist or special educator in town, because kids want to work with you.
OUTLINE
Executive-Functioning Skills
Impact of Executive Functions on Daily Life
Traditional Intervention Approaches
Low-Tech Interventions to Improving Executive Functions:
High-Tech Interventions to Improving Executive Functions:
OBJECTIVES
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Randy Kulman, Ph.D., is a child clinical psychologist who specializes in the assessment and treatment of children with executive-functioning disorders. He is the author of a book of strategies and recommendations to improve executive-functioning skills for teenagers, Train Your Brain for Success: A Teenager’s Guide to Executive Functions. He recently authored Playing Smarter in a Digital World: A Guide to Choosing and Using Popular Video Games and Apps to Improve Executive Functioning in Children and Teens.
Dr. Kulman is the president and founder of LearningWorks for Kids, an educational technology company that focuses on the use of games, apps, play and technology to improve executive functions. He writes columns for Commonsensemedia.org and InsideADHD.org and a regular parenting column for the South County Independent newspaper.
Dr. Kulman presented his research on several occasions at the CHADD Annual International Conference on ADHD, the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, and The Games for Health Conference. He has published numerous articles and book chapters about his research and strategies for the use of playing technology to improve executive skills.
Dr. Kulman has been assessing and treating children with ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, learning disabilities, anxiety, and depressive disorders for the past 30 years. Over the past 10 years he has become particularly interested in developing strategies to use children’s video-game, app, and digital- media use to improve executive functions, creativity and academic learning.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Randy Kulman is the president/founder of Learning Works for Kids. He is an author for Specialty Press/A.D.D. Warehouse. Dr. Kulman receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Kulman contributes to Commonsensemedia.org, InsideADHD.org, and the South County Independent newspaper.
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