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Lynne Kenney Book and DVD bundle
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Format:
Package - Video & Book   Instructions
Details:
Multi-disc DVD recording (5 hours, 40 minutes) with electronic manual and instructions.
Authors:
LYNNE KENNEY, PSYD
REBECCA COMIZIO, MA, MA-ED, NCSP
Publisher:
PESI Publishing & Media
Copyright:
1/27/2015
CE Available:
Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
Product Code:
RVKIT051610
Objectives
[+] [-] 046620 - Improving Executive Function:
  1. Explain the neurobiological basis of executive dysfunctions.
  2. Summarize the 12 primary executive functions.
  3. Describe the role of motor rhythm and timing in EF.
  4. Explain the role of the cerebellum in thinking and behavioral control.
  5. Summarize classroom and social manifestations of difficulty with executive dysfunction.
  6. Describe more than 20 neurocognitive strategies, solutions and activities.
  7. Role-play and practice cognitive and self-regulation interventions.

Outline
[+] [-] 046620 - Improving Executive Function:

Executive Functioning (EF)

  • Development and neurophysiology of executive functioning
  • The three-part brain
  • How the thinker manages the caveman in our brains
  • The neurobiology of thinking and belief systems
  • The role of food and neurotransmitters in behavior and learning
  • How and why we move to think

Understand 12 Executive Functions

  • Self-regulation
  • Inhibition of impulses
  • Sustaining attention
  • Shifting attention
  • Cognitive flexibility
  • Emotional control
  • Initiating activity
  • Working memory
  • Planning
  • Organizing of material
  • Self-monitoring
  • Time management

Executive Function Assessment: 5 “Must-Knows” For Clinicians and Teachers

  • From toddlers to teenagers
  • The Mini-Neuro Assessment for EF, Gifted, LD and ADHD
  • What we assess and why we assess it
  • Qualitative data vs. quantitative data
  • The spark PE motor scope and sequence:
  • A “must-know” for teachers and clinicians

Executive Function Across the Ages and Stages

  • Developmental assessment of EF-10 domains for treatment planning
  • Intervention strategies for EF dysfunction (EFD) in early childhood (0-3)
  • Why we are slow to observe EFD in school-agers
  • The impact of EFD in high school & college
  • Cognitive-Dysfunction Prevention

Interventions, Strategies and Skill Building

  • The landscape of intervention: What is currently available to clinicians and teachers
  • Three part data assessment to determine what interventions are a “best fit”
  • Quarterly treatment planning for forward progress
  • How to intervene with food, motor movement, cognitive skill development and cognitive-behavioral methodologies
  • Improve thinking & self-regulation with neurocognitive interventions
  • 5 NEW neurocognitive interventions for home and school
  • 5 music, art and drawing self-regulation activities for home and school
  • New music-based motor rhythm and timing exercises for better thinking
  • Scaffold skill sets
  • Initiation, execution & revision of behavioral & academic skills

Author

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.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Lynne Kenney is the creator of CogniSuite & The Kinetic Classroom and the co-creator of 5n45. She is the co-owner of Move2Learn, LLC and has an employment relationship with Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia. Dr. Kenney receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Lynne Kenney has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

REBECCA COMIZIO, MA, MA-ED, NCSP

Rebecca Comizio, MA, MA-Ed, NCSP, is the Director of Social-Emotional Learning and school psychologist at The Stanwich School in Greenwich, CT. She is working to utilize her education, training and life experience to positively affect the lives of children and families by advocating for students.
Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
[+] [-] Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
[+] [-] 046620 - Improving Executive Function:
[+] [-] 084495 - 70 Play Activities for Better Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning & Behavior
Audience
Case Managers, Chaplains/Clergy, Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals