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 we will be integrating movement throughout the training.
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Manual - 2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents
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Manual - 2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents - French
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102 Pages
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Manual - 2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents - Italian
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Manual - 2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents - German
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Manual - 2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents - Spanish
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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 and receives compensation as a consultant. Dr. Kenney receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Lynne Kenney is Play Math Ambassador.
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Utilize research-based activities to improve thinking, self-regulation, learning and behavior.
Identify the biological and motor precursors to learning including balance, postural control, and coordinated movement patterns.
Examine the meaningful relationship between cognition and motor movement in learning and school achievement.
Integrate developmentally appropriate, cognitively engaging movement sequences that enhance attention, memory, and self-control through progressive cognitive-motor activities.
Choose coaching and movement activities to help children with ADHD, dyslexia, ODD, sensory processing challenges, dyspraxia, anxiety and behavioral issues.
Choose cognitive conversations, brain-based lessons, and THINK Cards to build metacognition, self-awareness, and agency in learning.
Determine the role of tempo, rhythm and timing in cognition.
Choose rhythmic calming strategies for on-the-spot behavior management.
Utilize self-regulation practices that combine proprioceptive “heavy work,” rhythmic entrainment, and co-regulation techniques to help children transition from stress responses to a calm, alert learning state.
Examine the role that rhythmic “heavy” motor work has for dysregulated children.
Analyze the biological precursors to better executive function, learning, and behavior.
Identify cognitive-movement strategies to help children move out of the stress response into an alert state of calm.
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Priming the Brain for Learning
Impact of brain stimulation, stress, ACE’s and trauma on learning
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