Check this article on LDonline.

http://www.ldonline.org/article/6311

To quote:

Students with executive dysfunction have problems of a neurobiological
nature that particularly affect "planning, flexibility, organization,
and self-monitoring (Ozonoff, 1998, p.282). These students may have
"difficulty picking a topic, planning the project, sequencing the
materials for a paper, breaking the project down into manageable units
with intermediate deadlines, getting started, and completing the
activity. And because these students frequently underestimate how long
something will take, they'll generally leave the project until the night
before it is due" (Packer, 2001, p. 2). Just imagine how difficult it
would be if you had trouble organizing your time, materials, belongings,
thoughts or any combination of these!

 

It seems this dysfunction lies in the frontal lobe.

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What is "executive dysfunction"? I thought I had heard all the terms but
not this one!

 

==Thanks, Mary

 

On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:17 PM, maureen wrote:





 I have a 13 yo boy who has executive dysfunction and a reading
comprehension/processing problem.  

 

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Department of Special Education

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