Executive Functioning
At Frisco Feeding & Speech Therapy, we offer specialized interventions for executive functioning. Our team of ADHD-Certified Rehabilitation Service Providers (ADHD-RSP) and Certified Anxiety-Informed Professionals (CAIP) provide cognitive behavioral therapy to improve cognitive communication and executive functioning. Whether challenges exist in isolation or secondary to ADHD, anxiety, or related disorders, we develop holistic plans from cognitive, behavioral, and social-emotional perspectives.
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Who Would Benefit from Executive Functioning Therapy?
Our executive functioning therapy helps develop essential life skills
Cognitive Flexibility Challenges
Support for individuals who struggle to shift between tasks, adapt to changes, accept a variety of solutions to problems, or handle new routines. Therapy builds flexible thinking and smoother transitions.
Organizational Skills Difficulties
Help for individuals who have trouble keeping materials, schoolwork, or daily routines structured. Therapy teaches strategies to make organization sustainable, less effortful, and systematic.
Sustained Attention Issues
Support for individuals who lose focus easily or have difficulty finishing tasks. Therapy builds engagement, self regulation, and strategies that improve follow through.
Time Management Struggles
Guidance for individuals who have trouble estimating time, completing tasks on schedule, or managing daily demands. Therapy teaches tools to create predictable, structured, and time-oriented routines.
Self-monitoring Difficulties
Help for individuals who need support noticing mistakes, adjusting behavior, or tracking their own progress. Therapy builds awareness and independence.
Task Initiation Challenges
Support for individuals who know what needs to be done but have difficulty getting started. Therapy teaches step by step routines and motivation strategies to begin tasks with confidence.
Impulse Control Issues
Guidance for individuals who act quickly without thinking or struggle to pause before responding. Therapy builds self control, thoughtful decision making, and coping skills.
Emotional Regulation Challenges
Support for individuals who frequently feel overwhelmed or have difficulty managing strong emotions. Therapy teaches both proactive and reactive calming strategies that help them respond in a steady and confident way.
Prioritization Difficulties
Help for individuals who have trouble deciding what to do first or how to break a task into steps. Therapy teaches planning and sorting skills that promote independence.
Problem-solving Challenges
Support for individuals who struggle to find solutions when things do not go as expected. Therapy builds reasoning skills, resilience, and confidence in handling new situations.
ADHD
Therapeutic support for individuals with attention, organization, impulse control, or emotional regulation difficulties. Therapy builds functional skills that support success at home and school.
Anxiety-based Cognitive Communication Challenges
Help for individuals whose anxiety affects the ability to process information, make decisions, or communicate clearly. Therapy teaches tools that reduce stress and improve confidence in communication.
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Cognitive Flexibility Challenges
Support for individuals who struggle to shift between tasks, adapt to changes, accept a variety of solutions to problems, or handle new routines. Therapy builds flexible thinking and smoother transitions.
Organizational Skills Difficulties
Help for individuals who have trouble keeping materials, schoolwork, or daily routines structured. Therapy teaches strategies to make organization sustainable, less effortful, and systematic.
Sustained Attention Issues
Support for individuals who lose focus easily or have difficulty finishing tasks. Therapy builds engagement, self regulation, and strategies that improve follow through.
Time Management Struggles
Guidance for individuals who have trouble estimating time, completing tasks on schedule, or managing daily demands. Therapy teaches tools to create predictable, structured, and time-oriented routines.
Self-monitoring Difficulties
Help for individuals who need support noticing mistakes, adjusting behavior, or tracking their own progress. Therapy builds awareness and independence.
Task Initiation Challenges
Support for individuals who know what needs to be done but have difficulty getting started. Therapy teaches step by step routines and motivation strategies to begin tasks with confidence.
Impulse Control Issues
Guidance for individuals who act quickly without thinking or struggle to pause before responding. Therapy builds self control, thoughtful decision making, and coping skills.
Emotional Regulation Challenges
Support for individuals who frequently feel overwhelmed or have difficulty managing strong emotions. Therapy teaches both proactive and reactive calming strategies that help them respond in a steady and confident way.
Prioritization Difficulties
Help for individuals who have trouble deciding what to do first or how to break a task into steps. Therapy teaches planning and sorting skills that promote independence.
Problem-solving Challenges
Support for individuals who struggle to find solutions when things do not go as expected. Therapy builds reasoning skills, resilience, and confidence in handling new situations.
ADHD
Therapeutic support for individuals with attention, organization, impulse control, or emotional regulation difficulties. Therapy builds functional skills that support success at home and school.
Anxiety-based Cognitive Communication Challenges
Help for individuals whose anxiety affects the ability to process information, make decisions, or communicate clearly. Therapy teaches tools that reduce stress and improve confidence in communication.
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Get StartedWhat Executive Function skills should be present by age?
Track executive functioning milestones by age group
- Understands categories: color, shape, or size
- Understands putting things back where they belong
- Follows multistep directions
- Independently begin and complete tasks for 10 minutes
- Participates in familiar rhymes and songs
- Able to engage in routine tasks and daily routines
- Able to connect behaviors to emotions
- Plays with other children, accepting of other play ideas
- Successfully plays active inhibition games like freeze dance
- Able to inhibit safety related behaviors (e.g, not touching a hot stove)
- Able to label one's own simple emotions
- Demonstrates an emerging understanding of shifting between activities
- Participates in collaborative play with peers
Everyone develops at their own pace. These are general guidelines to help track progress.
Skills We Target
Comprehensive intervention across multiple skill areas
Core Executive Functions
- Working memory development
- Cognitive flexibility training
- Inhibitory control strategies
- Planning and organization
- Task initiation techniques
Academic Skills
- Study skills and strategies
- Time management systems
- Note-taking methods
- Test preparation techniques
- Assignment completion strategies
Social-Emotional Skills
- Emotional regulation strategies
- Self-monitoring techniques
- Stress management
- Goal setting and achievement
- Self-advocacy skills
Transition to Adulthood
- Failure to launch
- Essential job soft skills
- Interviewing skills & resume development
- Money management
- Independent living skills
Frequently Asked Questions
Expert answers to your questions about executive functioning support
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