Recommended Resources

Executive Functioning Resources

Books

• Smart but Scattered (Dawson & Guire)
• Smart but Scattered Teens (Dawson & Guire)
• Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parent’s Guide to helping Children with Executive Functioning (Cooper-Kahn & Deitzel)

Student Planners

• Order Out of Chaos (http://www.orderoochaos.com)
• The Work-Smart Academic Planner (http://www.smartbutscatteredkids.com/Books/listings)

Websites

• Watch how the brain develops throughout childhood!
  • http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/15/health/20080915-brain-development.html?_r=0

Apps

• My Homework App

Adolescents

Books

• The Blessing of a B- (Mogel)
• Yes, Your Teen is Crazy (Bradley)
• Get Out of My Life, But First Can You Take Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager (Wolf)
• Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior (Barkley and Benton)

Dyslexia

Books

• Overcoming Dyslexia (Shaywitz)
• The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Potential of the Dyslexic Brain (Eide & Eide)
• The Gift of Dyslexia

ADHD

Books

• Taking Charge of ADHD (Barkley)
• 1-2-3-Magic (Phelan)
• Parenting from the Inside Out (Siegel)
• Parenting Children With ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach (Monastra)