Glenbard Parent Series to discuss building executive function skills, decreasing behavior challenges

The Glenbard Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present "Can't Do or Won't Do? Executive Function Skill-Building to Solve Behavior Challenges" with behavior analyst Sasha Long at noon and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, via Zoom. Go to glenbardgps.org for further information and the links to these two webinars.

For students to reach educational goals, it is important to classify learning and behavioral challenges as "can't do" or "won't do." Is the work or process beyond the student's skill level, or is the motivation to complete the task not there? By identifying and improving executive functioning skills, we can decrease obstacles and match student strengths with activities they can excel at - while overcoming skill deficits and implementing positive reinforcement.

Long will share strategies to increase student success and provide interventions to increase independence and communication so students can thrive. Participants will learn to identify learning obstacles and discern when skill improvements or additional positive reinforcements are needed.

A 30-minute extended workshop for caregivers of neurodiverse children will follow each of these one-hour presentations.

Continuing professional development units are available for these webinars.

Long is the founder and president of The Autism Helper Inc. She is a board-certified behavior analyst and former special education teacher.

To be placed on a reminder list for GPS events or submit a question in advance, contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at gilda_ross@glenbard.org or (630) 942-7668.

GPS is generously sponsored by the Cebrin Goodman Center, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, Duly Health and Care, DuPage Regional Office of Education, Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Kids Matter, Kiwanis Clubs, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.