Executive dysfunction

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Executive Dysfunction. The term “executive functioning” refers to mental processes involved in goal-directed activity. The work on this has been primarily done in Neuropsychology but the implications for educators are important. Executive functioning includes tasks such as - setting a goal, planning to achieve that goal, sequencing steps in your plan, regulating attention and emotional responses to challenges that may arise, and evaluating the outcome for use of the plan. People who have executive dysfunction are people with disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. These people almost always have frontal love anomalies and have difficulty with executive functioning. Things and tasks that come to most of us fairly unconsciously must be explicitly taught to people with Executive Dysfunction. People with executive dysfunction become distracted or get very emotional about a task they are doing. They tend to become extreemly stressed, and it takes them longer to complete a task.