Lynne Kenney – 2-Day Advanced Course: Executive Functioning Skills for Children & Adolescents: 50 Cognitive-Motor Activities to Improve Attention, Memory, Response Inhibition and Self-Regulation

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Lynne Kenney, Professor
Duration: One Whole Day
Audio and video formats are available.
Copyright: December 5, 2019
Description

Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., pediatric psychologist, author, and worldwide educator, will demonstrate how to incorporate the most recent research in neuroscience, kinesiology, and neurocognitive education to help children behave better and learn more effectively in this recording.

You will participate in 50 developing cognitive-exercises and coaching activities to energize your classroom, workplace, and clinic.

Learn how to use physical movement, sequencing, attention, self-regulation, and memory exercises to improve cognition, promote learning, and empower children to be better thinkers.

Handouts

Executive Functioning Skills for Children and Adolescents Manual (14.4 MB)

After purchase, 130 pages are available.

ASHA Credit Instructions – SELF STUDY ONLY – 12/05&06/19 (38.5 KB)

Outline available after purchase

Brain Preparation for Learning

Brain stimulation, stress, ACEs, and trauma have an impact on learning. Create low-stress, high-connection learning settings.
Learning’s biological forerunners
New forms of preliteracy
Precursors of executive function
5 early determinants of academic achievement
Establish a quiet classroom atmosphere based on compassion, respect, and trust.
Collaboration, autonomy, and creativity are important in learning and behavior.

Learning Requires Foundational Motor Competencies

Weight shift and balance
Postural control to improve learning
Basic movement patterns and sequences
Pattern and element types
How to Create a Motion Sequence
Activities
Activity must be balanced.
Weight shifting instruction
The head, shoulders, hips, and knees
Can everyone count?
Attention, memory, and self-control primer sequences in the brain

Musical Thought

We have a musical background.
The Love Notes Measures work like magic!
The secret is the “We Move on the Beat in Time Together” sequence.
Activities
Rhythm cards for musical thinking
Musically communicating need sets
Mixes of moving and groovin’
Developing your own standing patterns

Interventions in Thinking for Improved Learning and Behavior

Executive functions CAN be taught.
Create fundamental executive functions for success.
Process of developing cognitive abilities

“I am the best brain coach.” – Students’ Lessons

Teach kids about their brains.
Make executive functions more visible.
Activities for “Cognitive Conversation”
Students should learn the following eight brain lessons.
Cognitive conversation starters
THINK Cards are thought cards. SAM Cards for call and response

The “Cognitive Dialogue” on Attention

My Attention Mechanic
There are several aspects to paying attention.
Attention cycle Different kinds of attention Activities
Questions and prompts
Increase your conscious awareness
Songs and chants for my Attention Engine
Conversational practice that is interactive

Seated Work Improves Attention

1-5 minute desk percussion activities Stadium impact Compositions and orchestras Activities
Tabletop faucet
Rep the beat.
CogniTap\sParadiddles

Music, Piano, and Drumming for Cognitive Engagement

The role of music in education
Improve your musical abilities by using auditory channels.
Spatial drumming requires imagination.
The Meludia Method
Taiko Activities in Real Time (Advanced Brain Technologies) Solfege

Creating Your Own Sequences and Patterns

Patterns\sSequences\sElements
The combination of sound and movement
Cueing\sActivities
You work as a conductor.
We play in an orchestra.

Language, Dyslexia, Reading, and Education

What the study shows about reading antecedents
There are several varieties of dyslexia.
The role of processing speed in reading
Reading’s temporality, timing, and prosody
Are rhymers true readers?
Activities
Everyday narrative language
Sequencing and patterning in photographs to make a story
Rhyming tunes, lullabies, and folk songs
Rhyming exercises with a circle pattern

Spotlight on Visual-Motor Language

What is Spotlight and how did it come to be?
Reading the visual-motor language together
The significance of cognitive cueing
Spotlight may be used in a variety of ways.
Activities
The student’s initial instructions (s)
Alternate and mirror
Learning motions include planer, lateral, and contralateral movements.
Make up your own sequences.
The single moving circle of the spotlight

Primers for the Brain (Mike Kuczala)

Cognitive involvement that progresses with age
Boost cognitive-motor demands
Engage the hesitant learner through creativity and cooperation
Mix and combine advanced components, patterns, and sequences
Activities
Primer for the brain

Memory’s “Cognitive Conversation”

Working memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, visual working memory, verbal (auditory) working memory
Coding and retrieval
Art, music, and movement enhance scientific activities.
Visual prompt for file cabinet
Quick Rick can help you find math facts.
Slow Mo is used to encode spelling.
Strategies for Improving Working Memory
Techniques for Improving Visual Memory

Using Cognitive-Motor Movement to Improve Behavior

The “Cognitive Dialogue” on SelfControl (Response Inhibition) and Impulsivity

With responsive movement, you may improve classroom cohesiveness, sociability, and conduct.
The distinction between self-regulation and self-control Response inhibition versus impulsive
Types of Irritability (motor, verbal, cognitive)
“Feeling” of slowing down (self-control and selfregulation)
5 simple and efficient remedies for dysregulated children
Between compulsion, action, and behavior
Dysinhibition, cognition, and trauma
Stop repeating nervous ideas.
Activities
Mary’s ideas and her Me Me Me’s!
Pace and Periwinkle

Heavy Work in Self-Regulation

Push, pull, and maintain
How can proprioceptive input help to relax the mind and body?
How does the counting or cuing sound?
Activities
Transitions that work
The Musical is held by Stationary. Thinking Cards with rhythm
Heavy motorized play
Playing with one’s hands

Self-Regulation: Achieving a State of Alert Calm

Emotional, cognitive, and sensory/motor self-regulation
Energy management through self-regulation
Entrainment can be used to reciprocally regulate 3,5,7,9 for time calming activities.
Co-regulation
Walking Dressage Patterns from the Past
Yoga postures
Patterns of Tai Chi
Worksheet for self-monitoring with mirror writing

Inhibition, Memory, and Attention

How can bean bags help with visual tracking?
How can bean bags stimulate attention and memory?
Hand-eye coordination patterns and sequences
Activities
Bean bag activities for one and two people

Calming Rhythm Ball

Ball activities for one and two people
Alter the cueing and counting for alerting and soothing activities.
Co-regulation with a single person
Back-to-back listening sessions
Make use of music and metronomes.
Faculty

Psy.D. Lynne Kenney 11 Move2Think, LLC offers related courses and goods.

Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of K-6 classroom cognitive-physical exercise programs. Dr. Kenney creates curriculum, programming, and activities to help children enhance their cognition through coordinated cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill-building tactics, and social-emotional development.

Dr. Kenney completed advanced fellowships in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School, respectively. She has a Master of Science in Physical Education from the University of Southern California and a Doctorate in Psychology from Pepperdine University.

Dr. Kenney’s books include 70 Play Activities for Better Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning, and Behavior with Rebecca Comizio (PESI, 2016), Bloom Your RoomTM (Mrs. Beetle’s Books, 2017), Musical ThinkingTM (Unhooked Books, 2016), and Bloom: 50 Things to Say, Think, and Do with Anxious, Angry, and Over-the-Top Kids with Wendy Young (PESI, 2016). (Unhooked Books, 2015). The Kinetic Classroom, her professional development platform, provides executive function instruction and cognitive-motor movement to educators and doctors worldwide.

Dr. Kenney has worked as a community service educator since 1985, from inner-city Los Angeles to national organizations such as the Neurological Health Foundation, Understood.org, HandsOn Phoenix, and Points of Light (Generation On). She is passionate about eliminating the poverty education gap and likes working with Title I schools.

Disclosures for Speakers:
Dr. Lynne Kenney works as a private practitioner. She has written for Unhooked Media, Better Life Media, Inc., Moving Minds, and Move 2 Think, LLC, among others. The Kinetic Classroom was created by Dr. Kenney. PESI, Inc. pays her a speaking honorarium.
Dr. Lynne Kenney does not have any relevant non-financial relationships to declare.

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