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Red Flags of Executive Functioning Difficulties

3 or more checks total suggest your child may
benefit from Executive Functioning intervention.

General Red Flags

Rigid thinking- has difficulty moving beyond the more basic ways of doing things

Has difficulty taking on new tasks and responsibilities

Poor focus/attention- difficulty staying on the task until it is completed

Poor organizational skills- has difficulty organizing their thoughts, choosing the words for the sentences, adding supporting details while keeping track of the main idea

Poor short-term memory- has difficulty recalling the steps needed to complete a multiple stepped task and following multi-stepped directions

Difficulty understanding idioms (such as "keep your ear to the ground") and puns (such as "the joke")

Academic Red Flags

Difficulty solving word problems

Difficulty understanding how words can be used in more than one way (such as "don't slip on the banana peel" and "sign the permission slip"

Difficulty understanding how the same letter combination can make different sounds
(such as -ough in words like enough and dough)

Difficulty understanding what information is important and what details are just used to add to a description

Difficulty understanding the perspectives of different characters in a story

Poor self-monitoring skills- does not check for grammar and spelling mistakes, poor use of grammar rules and variations of the rule (-ed is past tense, but the past tense of go is went)

Anchor 1

Poor sense of time- not aware of time and the amount of time it takes for a task

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