CME Workshop:
The Evidence for Executive Function Assessment and Intervention

May 6th, 2015
Albert J. Solnit Children's Center Building
(formerly known as Riverview Hospital) 
9am to 12pm - 3hr CME credit - $50
Light Breakfast & Lunch will be served  

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Over the past 15 years, rating scales have become the accepted standard for efficiently measuring the integrity of executive functions in a student's everyday life. More recently, attention has turned to how to support and enhance executive functions, and body of evidence for interventions is quickly developing. 

In this presentation, we will review contributions of rating scales to both assessment and intervention to enhance students' executive functioning. Evidence about the use of rating scales to access executive functions, to guide interventions, and to measure outcomes is presented including findings in an array of clinical populations (e.g., ADHD, TBI, ASD), associations with relevant outcome measures (e.g., academic performance, social skills) and biological markers (e.g., neuroimaging), sensitivity to change with treatments, and relationships with performance-based neuropsychological measures.
Objectives:
  • To equip professionals with the knowledge of approaches to evaluating executive functions;
  • To review evidence for a variety of approaches to executive function intervention and enhancement;
  • To help practitioners develop a model for assessing and supporting executive functions;
Learning Objectives:
  • Explain the pros and cons of approaches to assessment of executive functions;
  • articulate and evidence based assessment model for approaching executive function assessment;
  • describe evidenced based approaches to interventions for supporting executive functions in students;
Who should attend?
Pediatricians, Family Physicians, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers and anyone who works with children and students.
Presenter: 
Peter K. Isquith, Ph.D
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Peter K. Isquith, Ph.D. is a developmental neuropsychologist and assistant Professor at Dartmouth College. His area of research is development and disorders of self-regulation. He is co-author of several assessment instruments including the Behavior Ration Inventory of Executive Function family of instruments and the Task of Executive Control.

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