ABOUT Executive Functions
Thursday, June 2, 2011 29 Comments
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by Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC
Part 1 in a Series
Executive Functions
Sorry, no trophy wife gets a new gown for these functions. Execs, you’re off the hook too; no need to get the tux cleaned.
We’re referring to cognitive abilities that most adults take for granted as products of intelligence, education and maturity — items like planning, problem solving, concentration, mental flexibility, and controlling short-term behavior to achieve long-term goals.
If that list of mental abilities looks a tad familiar, it’s because it is incredibly similar to a list of traits with which those of us with Attentional Spectrum Disorders experience big-time problems!
Sound like your experience with ADD? Oh yeah! ADD is a front-runner in the Executive Functioning Disorders relay race. Individuals with TBI find that many of their post-brain injury impairments fall in this arena as well. Read more of this post
