Clients are both male and female and vary in age from as young as 5-years-old to 70+.
Clients are both male and female and vary in age from as young as 5-years-old to 70+.
Taking EF a step further, we can break it down into two categories—thinking and doing. Thinking skills (higher level skills) involve planning, organizing, time management, working memory and metacognition. Doing skills (lower level skills) involve response inhibition, emotional control, sustained attention, task initiation, flexibility and goal-directed persistence. Together, we refer to these as Executive Skills.
The front part of the brain (prefrontal cortex) retrieves and flexibly applies these skills. Over time, we gradually develop these cognitive skills from early childhood throughout young adulthood. The good news is that the brain continues to mature and develop connections well into adulthood. A person’s executive skills are shaped by both physical changes in the brain and through life experiences. CogniBuilders focuses on improving executive skills for children, teenagers and adults. We do this the same way you’d improve any skill—by practicing.
In addition, most ADHD assessments are self/parent/teacher rating scales which are prone to bias and can lead to a misdiagnosis. Research estimates that overall in the US, the misdiagnosis rate is about 1 in 5, that is around 900,000 of the 4.5 million children currently diagnosed with ADHD have been misdiagnosed [link]. This is why CogniBuilders uses a comprehensive assessment of executive functions beyond rating scales.