Webinar | 2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents
Facilitator
Lynne Kenney, PsyD
Dr. Lynne Kenney is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of classroom cognitive-physical activity programs for students grades K-8. She develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill building strategies, and social-emotional learning. Her current educational program is CogniMoves®, a classroom cognitive-motor movement program, co-developed with Benjamin S. Bunney, MD, Former Chairman Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. CogniMoves® is designed to strengthen executive function skills in K-3 students.
Dr. Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the language & cognition team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia, Scottsdale, Arizona. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School. As an international educator, researcher, and author, she is dedicated to improving the trajectory of children’s learning, particularly in high-need, under-resourced communities. Dr. Kenney’s books include Brain Primers, 2020 (Kuczala & Kenney); 70 Play Activities for Better thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior (Kenney & Comizio, 2016); the Social-Emotional Literacy program, Bloom Your Room™; Musical Thinking™, and Bloom: 50 Things To Say, Think and Do with Anxious, Angry and Over-the-Top Kids (Kenney & Young, 2015). Her most recent endeavor is Cognitivities™, an original collection of portable mats that combine music, art, and movement developed with Fit and Fun Playscapes. Launched in 2024, this is the first Roll-Out Activities® mat of its kind, helping children with cognitive skills, executive function, and self-regulation in a calming and engaging way. In development, FlowMoves™ cognitive-motor movement cards for high-need communities and families to support co-regulation and self-regulation.
Since 1985, Dr. Kenney has worked as an educator in community services with national organizations including the Neurological Health Foundation, Head Start, Understood.org, HandsOn Phoenix, SparkPE, the First Nations in Canada, and Points of Light (Generation On). Dr. Kenney values working with Title I Schools.
2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents: 50 Cognitive-Motor Activities to Improve Attention, Memory, Response Inhibition and Self-Regulation
In this course, Lynne Kenney, Psy,D., pediatric psychologist, author and international educator, will show you how to integrate the newest research in neuroscience, kinesiology and neurocognitive education for students to behave better and learn more efficiently.
You will experience 50 developmentally progressive cognitive-exercises and coaching activities to enliven your classroom, office and clinic. Learn how to improve cognition, enhance learning and empower children to be better thinkers with motor movement, sequencing, attending, selfregulation and memory activities.
Dress comfortably, as you will be integrating movement throughout the training.
Objectives
1. Implement research-based activities educators, teachers and clinicians can use to improve thinking, self-regulation, learning and behavior.
2. Determine how to improve classroom cohesion and climate with physical activities that require thought engaging attention and memory.
3. Articulate the meaningful relationship between cognition and motor movement in learning and school achievement.
4. Integrate cognitively engaging physical activity in your classroom and practice with coordinative cognitive-motor activities.
5. Practice over 50 coaching and movement activities you can do to help children with ADHD, dyslexia, ODD, sensory processing challenges, dyspraxia, anxiety and behavioral issues.
6. Demonstrate how to enhance collaboration and cooperation in your classroom by helping students become “cognitive scientists” empowered to help their own learning.
7. Determine the role of tempo, rhythm and timing in cognition.
8. Design rhythmic calming strategies for on-the-spot behavior management.
9. Develop confidence in creating your own collaborative cognitive-motor work with your students.
10. Articulate how rhythmic “heavy” motor work can be more effective for dysregulated children then talking when a child is in distress.
11. Analyze the biological precursors to better executive functions, learning and behavior.
12. Practice cognitive-movement strategies to help children move out of the stress response into an alert state of calm.
Credit
Earn up to 12.25 CE hours.
Credit may be available for this course and may vary by country or institution. Please verify eligibility with PESI.
Webinar | 2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents
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