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Steven Kennelly, PhD, Founder of HeadWorks

Initiating a Task

One of the executive functions that’s important is initiating a task. A lot of parents don’t think about this, but there is a part of your brain that says, Begin. We’ve all experienced this, we know that there’s something that we should be doing, but it’s not until this part of the brain says, Okay, […]

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Steven Kennelly, PhD, Founder of HeadWorks

Attention

Another area of executive functioning is attention. Most people think of attention as focused attention. This is your ability to focus on, let’s say, reading. And as you’re reading something and there are distractions,  out here, that your attention doesn’t move off in that direction, but you can.  Sustain your focus on what you’re doing. […]

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