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The iPod Touch, iPhone &/or iPad to Support or Enhance

Executive Functions��

Barbara Welsford, M.Ed., ATP, ATS, LDATS, ADE Assistive Technology Specialist

Kelly Humphries, MA Registered Psychologist Shannon Hartlen, MA Registered Psychologist

Barbara Welsford, M.Ed., ATP, ATS, LDATS, ADE

Assistive Technology Specialist

Barbara Welsford, M.Ed., ATP, ATS, LDATS, ADE Apple Distinguished Educator 2011

Proloquo2go Certified Trainer Assistive Technology Specialist

In the field of AT for over 25 years Assistive Technology Specialist SSRSB

Works with students from K-12 and Early Intervention Program 1 year prior to entering school. All abilities. All AT.

Designs and teaches Graduate courses in Assistive Technology for Acadia University and St.Fx University

Cofounder of the ATCS 1993

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Shannon Hartlen

Shannon Hartlen is a Registered Psychologist who works with school staff, families, and students from Primary

to Grade 12 providing Psychoeducational Assessment, Behavioural Assessment, consultation

and counseling. She is also responsible for providing Professional Development opportunities for staff

throughout the South Shore District School Board, which typically focuses on learning and behaviour

strategies in the school setting. She has worked for SSRSB for 11 years, and is pleased to remain in her

hometown of Liverpool, Nova Scotia with her husband and two daughters.

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Kelly Humphries

Kelly completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Memorial University before

completing graduate studies in school psychology at Mount Saint Vincent University. Since graduating in 2001 she has worked in a variety of settings including an ADHD Clinic,

private practice, MSVU, and two school boards within NS. As a school psychologist she works

with a wide range of students with special needs.

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Executive Functions

Overview of EF Specific areas of EF impacting learning Apps addressing each area

Overview of EF

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What is Executive Functioning?

• The executive functions are a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal. It is an umbrella term for the neurologically-based skills involving mental control and self-regulation. LD Online

What is Executive Functioning?

• “The Conductor of the Orchestra”

• “The CEO of the Brain”

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Think….Decide….Act. ��

That about sums it up!!��

Impact of Executive Function Difficulties��

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Executive Functions and Clinical Diagnoses

• Deficits in frontal lobe functions are evident in every psychiatric disorder.

• Diagnostic criteria of most clinical conditions encompass difficulties with one or more executive functions.

Executive Functions and Clinical Diagnoses

• ADHD – Many display difficulties with the Inhibit, Focus/Select, Sustain and Modulate cues

• ODD and CD – Multiple self-regulation and self-realization deficits

• ASD – Difficulties with self-analysis, self-awareness, and self-determination

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Executive Functions and School

• In school, the executive demands of a learning situation are often mediated by the teacher who cues students to engage the mental processes needed to learn effectively.

• In other words, the need for strong executive direction is reduced by the structure of the learning environment.


• In contrast, demonstrating what has been learned usually requires significant involvement of executive control processes.

• Such demonstration requires production on the student’s part:

• Taking tests

• Completing homework

• Completing long-term projects

• Answering questions in class

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• Production involves knowledge and the engagement of various combinations of executive capacities at various times.

• Unlike the process of learning in the classroom, demonstration of the outcomes of that learning is usually not mediated by the

teacher.


• Executive function processing deficits often manifest as inconsistencies in the use of adequately developed processes, abilities, lexicons, skills and/or strategies resulting in achievement and production below what would be expected.

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• They are inextricably woven into every process involved in the acts of reading, writing, and math.

• In the classroom, the tasks most frequently impacted by executive function-driven producing difficulties is written expression, assignment/project completion, and organization.

CEO of the Brain

• Has everything to do with Time Management (Ward, 2010)!

• Helps us decide what activities or tasks we’ll attend to and which ones we’ll complete

• Helps to organize our behavior over time

• Helps to override immediate demands in favor of longer term goals

• Behavior Regulation

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Areas of EF Impacting Learning

DOING Response Inhibition Emotional Control Sustained Attention Task Initiation Adaptability

THINKING Planning, Prioritizing Working Memory Time Management Organization Metacognition

Selecting and Achieving Goals: ��The Thinking Part

• Planning/Prioritizing

• Creating a roadmap to reach a goal or complete a task.

• Working Memory

• Hold information in mind while performing complex tasks; ability to draw on past learning/experiences to apply to the situation at hand or future.

• Time Management

• Capacity to estimate how much time one has, how to allocate it, and how to stay within time limits/deadlines; also the sense that time is important.

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Selecting and Achieving Goals: ��The Thinking Part

• Organization

• Ability to design and maintain systems for keeping track of information and materials.

• Metacognition

• Self-monitoring and self-evaluative skills: “How am I doing?” or “How did I do?”


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Planning/Prioritizing��Creating a roadmap to reach a goal or

complete a task.


Tools4Students .99¢ iPad only

• 25 top quality graphic organizers • Choose the best template and fill out your information right on your mobile device • Share with others via email and save it in the file • Use In a group using an LCD hooked up to your iPad2 • Cause and effect, sequence, maps, story elements, timelines, word meanings 1 and 2, summarizing template, making predictions, Main idea/detail • KWL and KWLW study maps • Compare/contrast and character maps • Use with students who require support with preplanning, initiation and organizing ideas


complete a task.


Reminders

• Free • Onboard Apple mobile App: comes with every iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad • Lists, schedules, built in calendar, organiza?on • Support students who have difficul?es with execu?ve func?ons in the areas of planning, organizing and scheduling • Easy to use and apply

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complete a task.

Other Apps suppor1ng Planning/Priori1zing

Round ToiT, iThoughts, StudentLife Organizer, Calendar


Emotional Control ��Ability to manage emotions in order to achieve goals, complete tasks, or control/

direct behavior.


Take a Chill – Stressed Teens • .99¢ • Used to manage stress • Mindful exercises • ThoughJul ac?vi?es • Prevent nega?ve thoughts • Quick exercises, daily thoughts pushed out to device, stress assessment, reminders and much more

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direct behavior.


Let Panic Go

• $2.99 • Supporting students with anxiety to enhance self control of their emotions • Easy to use and apply • Calming, direct and interactive


direct behavior.


Other Apps suppor1ng Emo1onal Control Pocket Pond, iRelax, Bubble Poppers, Balloon Pop, iTunes music app (personally chosen music), note the variety of Yoga Apps on the iTunes store,

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Sustained Attention ��Capacity to attend to a situation/task in

spite of distractibility, fatigue, or boredom.


Sound Curtain

• .99¢ • Create a quiet workspace • Block out background noise and enhance focus and attention, engagement and concentration on task • Comes with seven generative tracks - featuring intelligent, self-adjusting white noise and harmonic sounds that listen and react to your environment.




iBooks: Enhanced Books and Enhanced Textbooks

• Variable prices of books • Example: Life on Earth • Science Textbook • Adding interest to textbooks with embedded video, animations, audio, highlighting, studycards…

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Visual Timer .99¢ • Set the ?mer to visually countdown • Set it to provide an auditory cue on comple?on or vibrate • Easy to use and apply

Organization ��Ability to design and maintain systems for keeping track of information and materials.


StudentLife Organizer

• Free • Calendar app and organizer for students • 4 separate calendars • List, day or month view • Send email of events • Import images • Customizable pictures for

monthly display

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Organization ��Ability to design and maintain systems for keeping track of information and

materials.


Calendar App

Free • Use as a visual reminder for the month • Use in list view for details on appointments or goals set for the day • Keep track of what you have done or what you plan to do • Different calendars for work, home, school

Organization ��Ability to design and maintain systems for keeping track of information and

materials.


Other Apps that enhance and support organiza?on include PhotoMind, PictureScheduler, RoundToiT

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Metacognition ��Self-monitoring and self-evaluative skills: “How am I doing?” or “How did I do?”


Waitstrip Waistrip Timer (free)

• .99¢ • A visual representa?on of how much ?me is leQ in a task or the number of steps in a task • Enhances ?me on task and task comple?on • Adds structure to almost any ac?vity or task • Extremely easy to use and apply – even on the go • Developed by an Occupa?onal Therapist • Instructions: ��1. Select the number of buttons that correlate to the number of steps/tasks to be completed. ��2. Select the button color. ��3. Once each expected step or task is completed, a corresponding button is pushed. Repeat until all steps or tasks are completed



$3.99 or free lite version Easy to use rewards chart for children Type in their name Select a few tasks Reward their accomplishments with a checkmark on a weekly chart Easy to use and apply Children enjoy using this App and working towards goals and enhancing mo?va?on and task comple?on

iRewards

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Other Apps to enhance and support metacogni1on

Sosh Voice Meter (visual feedback on voice volume), Triggers session, Feelings Monitor (Shades of Gray ac1vity)


Areas of EF impacting learning

DOING Response Inhibition Emotional Control Sustained Attention Task Initiation Adaptability

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Response Inhibition ��Think before you act; ability to resist

urge to say/do something & allow evaluation of a situation and how

behavior might impact it.


Pictello

$18.99 ejournals, picture stories, voice recorded stories Research projects Book reports Snap a picture and import it into Pictello in 2 steps Text to speech for read aloud books Can be used in ANY curriculum File Share in iTunes Library or print to PDF Use and applica?on is only limited to your imagina?on! Use for social stories, personal ejournals with visuals and speech output, behaviour modelling





Conover Company Func1onal Skills Series Social Skills Sampler (free) Everyday Socials Skills HD -‐ $1.99 • Video modelling series providing support with various social situa?ons • Use with students/individuals to learn appropriate responses through video modelling prior to a social engagement, lesson or ac?vity

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Other Apps that support and enhance response inhibi1on Book Creator, iBook Creator, iMovie, for social stories


direct behavior.


Sosh

• The Shredder • .99¢ • Just type in your negative thoughts and drag those thoughts into the shredder • A visual and interactive way to rid yourself of negative thoughts and move on

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direct behavior.


Calm Counter

• $2.99 • A visual aid to provide supports to manage emotions for any student • Includes a brief social story about anger • Tools for calming down and reflecting on emotions • Easy to use and apply in any setting


direct behavior.


Other Apps suppor1ng Emo1onal Control

Social Stories Apps (i.e. Pictello, Book Creator), Bloom, Pocket Pond, Fluid2, Candle

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Task Initiation ��Ability to begin a task without undue

procrastination in a timely fashion.


Inspira1on

• $9.99 • iPad only • Use as a visual graphic organizer to guide and cue wri?ng, organize ideas • Use also as a step by step organizer to visually provide supports to refer to for task ini?a?on and task comple?on • Use the templates or easily design your own




Work System

• Free • Offers structured teaching • A work system walks a student/user through what to do when working through a specific task on the schedule • i.e. Arrival – broken down into Timer beep, Line up, check schedule etc. • Ability to modify the work system layout to individualize for specific students • The focus is to enhance independence of the student when working through a schedule • Can be used in a variety of settings for different tasks

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Other Apps that support Task Ini1a1on

Tools4Students, Visual Timer, iReward Chart, Visual Schedule

Flexibility/Adaptability��Ability to revise plans in the face of

obstacles, setbacks, new information, or mistakes.


Sock Puppets

• Free • Fun, easy to use and versa?le • Use with children to design and presents scripts that will provide visual guidance on how to be flexible, how to cope in novel situa?ons, deal with new informa?on and how to respond to errors • Children love this App, they could easily be part of developing the script and offering possible strategies and responses in different situa?ons • Use also in a group se`ng and have various students recording

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Fantas1c FourinARow

• .99¢ • For iPad & iPod Touch • Use game Apps to provide experiences with winning, losing and engaging in novel situations • Choices of games, layouts and tools • Use in a group, in pairs or play the iPad • Fun and easy to use and apply




Other Apps suppor1ng Flexibility/Adaptability

Any games that promote turn taking, loss and dealing with loss and how to be a good winner, SOSH Recogni1on, Triggers

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