Episode 72 – Assessment and Intervention for Executive Functioning Difficulties

Episode 72

#psychedpodcast will be chatting with Dr. George McCloskey about executive functioning. Please join in the discussion!

About George

Powerpoint: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/0B7JkmPE1QnD6aG5LSVY1bXNuVUhnYnpITDlndXRsd2FrN3dV/edit?resourcekey=0-J8LIS16wpK8TYgh4iwlgow#slide=id.p1

reading list: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7JkmPE1QnD6VVp3LU54bVROM1dqT0JiU3l3bU1pZ1Z0LW13/view?usp=sharing

George McCloskey, Ph.D., is a professor and director of School Psychology Research in the School of Applied and Professional Psychology of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds Diplomate status with the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. Dr. McCloskey has amassed 35 years of experience in test development, teaching, research and assessment and intervention work with a wide range of clients. Based on the past 20 years of his research and experience working specifically with children, adolescents and adults exhibiting executive function difficulties, Dr. McCloskey has developed a comprehensive model of executive capacities that can be used to assess executive capacity strengths and difficulties and guide efforts to foster growth and intervene with difficulties. He frequently presents at international, national, regional and state conferences on cognitive and neuropsychological assessment and intervention topics and consults with a number of school districts and private schools nationwide on issues related to improving students’ self-regulation capacities in the classroom, behavior management, and assessment and intervention for executive capacity difficulties related to academic and behavior problems.

Dr. McCloskey is the lead author of the books Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties and Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment and his most recent writing on interventions for executive function and executive skills difficulties appears in Chapter 10 of the book Essentials of Planning, Selecting, and Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners. He also is the author of the McCloskey Executive Functions Scales (MEFS) that have been standardized and published with Schoolhouse Educational Services.

Resources Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7JkmPE1QnD6SUJSNHo0NERJWFU?resourcekey=0-oMf9-tv9Fsb70BGPO2dmCg