Executive Functioning Skills in Infants

The provided file outlines exclusive techniques and methods used to guide children's development, focusing on executive functioning skills. It highlights the importance of early intervention by specialists such as physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, and behavioral & development pediatricians. The document also touches on stress levels and emotional management in children, emphasizing the need for proper guidance and routine establishment from an early age.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
This assignment consists of executive development of an infant. This executive kills will
include many components which will help in thriving all such recalls and constructing a solid
structure of an infant (Semrud-Clikeman, Fine & Bledsoe, 2014). Since this period is very
sensitive and exclusive in nature, one has to be prepared for all things. Their are basic 3 elements
which are very important and well efficient for working procedure and bring these skills in a
child, an youngster, an adult and then an old individual. The basic three things one should learn
understand and follow in their whole lifespan are learning, behaviour and emotions & social
situations and relationships. These three things are very crucial to understand and experience in
their lives, plus its used in day to day schedule. This is needed in all the life span of an
individual. It starts with the infant period where one has to understand things as per its taught to
them for example when a baby is 1 year old, He expresses their emotion by looking at the
expression of his/her mother, weather she is happy, scared or sad. Then accordingly they
understand the emotion from a very young age.
The life spam area of an individual has to be rectified in the mid terms and have to be
recorded as per the guidelines and aspects of restoratives it is included in the file that one has to
experience and go through all the crucial life space times in their whole life time period. Their
are several critical revaluation periods that main coding provided have to be understood by the
person. Every stage of life needs particular control levels and guide for the conclusive results.
The most crucial one is being an infant. The basic circulations have to be guided and given for
correct matter of time spam.
The executive skills are a set of combined elements which includes a learning procedure
and understanding capabilities of an infant. These act as direct brain control centre where things
like focus on brainstorming, processing information, fixing and recognising mistakes and filter
any sort of distraction is taught. The age of an infant is very crucial as most biggest issue in
today's time is that they do not have a very well developed brain which will process all skills
perfectly. Later, these children have to face a lot of struggle in changing their behavioural
reactions & issues in understanding basic concepts of planning, proper participation &
organizing. Generally children remember their previous mistakes and later tries to avoid the
same, here in this case one has to prepare their child in performing all basic necessity activities.

Some times children face issues in correctly responding in situations, they need correct guidance
and develop their executive function skills. It become very hard for the child to remember their
past mistakes and not to repeat them again. Its one of the most important building block for
correct development and derive them inconsistently in perfect structure (Goldstein & Naglieri,
2014). Their are basic functions which are very useful in maintaining all skills , which are
mentioned below:
 Giving them a safe, healthy & consistent home environment to create a happy aura
around them. It has a big impact on baby's nature.
 Social relationship in which dependability is learned, here one is avoided any
individualism and learns to live freely with whole family.
 Make them creative and construct them playing time period as per the requirements.
 Other skills such as communication, motor and sensory integration is learned in this.
Babies should be given many activities and playful environment which will help in
providing any sort of correct decision making power later in future (Fuhs & et. al., 2014). Babies
can learn new things as there are more active and fast learners, kids with extra shy nature and
adoptive nature can become later introvert in nature. Many babies are given build foundations
with help of continuous care-giving routines. Even if the child has no issues and is physically &
mentally totally fine then they can be very interactive and need the help of these building
strategies, of refining & applying such skills in their day to day routine (Fuhs & et. al., 2014).
Areas of executive skills
there are multiple zones for executive kills and functions. Some of them are directly related
to correct time management.
Their can be very basic things to learn but the main thing is to control This consists several
factor which should be considered while training an infant. Their are plenty potential signs of
such executive functions in children which includes:
 Nominal delay in any kind of communication, cognitive or motor skills.
 Either becoming extremely sensitive or no sensitivity is felt, this should be done in
balance.
 Issues in managing emotions, frustration and stress levels.
 Become rigid & avoid any changes.

 Basic tendency to do a work like they learned, do not like to learn easy or better
approach.
These issues sometimes become big liabilities if not taken seriously and immediately, they
are currently committed for correct behaviour (Beer & at. al., 2014). Then only an specialist in
this field can help and treat the child. Because one these things become an actual nature of child
it will become near to impossible in bringing change in it. Some of specialist are mentioned
below:
 Physical therapists: these doctors try to make every session fun with games and
puzzles ,taking to children in understanding all concepts. This includes improving
strengths, range of emotions, maintaining balance & posture with flexibility in basic
nature.
 Occupational therapists: these doctors help them getting used to and practice their day to
day lifestyle strengthening their occupational case. They seek and keenly notice any
limitation one's child is facing and provide them alternate method to make things better
and exclusive.
 speech and language pathologists: these doctors render techniques & tools to
communicate freely and imply basic communication rules. Sometimes stress or anxiety is
also some reason to get irritated. The basic knowledge of using non-verbal & verbal
communication with correct meaning deprivation and keen notification of each activity
i.e. child is no social and local activities.
 behavioural & development paediatricians: here the doctor has to dig deep and read all
emotional aspects of child. They point out in case of development delays. This also
concludes but disabilities, behavioural disputes, habit with regulatory habits of particular
disorder. This also includes anxiety and managing stress levels.
The basic difference concluded should be to cover the individual difference which is
directly reflected in any infant. Like correct speech, language, memory and flexibilities. Its
proven in studies that children focus and attempt to construct better memory than an adult. In the
recent times it is been recorded that performing such activities helps in correct guidance and
proper maintain which will give them proper listings and points which will eventually become
their basic routine to follow.

CONCLUSION
This file consists of exclusive techniques and methods which are used over the child and
giving them correct guidance as per the need skills. This will contract and correct and maintained
decorum for correct presentation and learning methods in their basic nature. Such things are done
on infants and later it make their basic nature working methods to be correct and positive in
nature.
REFERENCES
Books and journals
Beer, J & at. al., (2014). Executive functioning skills in preschool-age children with cochlear
implants. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research. 57(4). 1521-1534.
Fuhs & et. al., (2014). Longitudinal associations between executive functioning and academic
skills across content areas. Developmental Psychology. 50(6). 1698.
Fuhs, M. W & et. al., (2014). Longitudinal associations between executive functioning and
academic skills across content areas. Developmental Psychology. 50(6). 1698.
Goldstein, S., & Naglieri, J. A. (2014). Executive functioning. A. Goldstein, Sam.
Semrud-Clikeman, M., Fine, J. G., & Bledsoe, J. (2014). Comparison among children with
children with autism spectrum disorder, nonverbal learning disorder and typically
developing children on measures of executive functioning. Journal of autism and
developmental disorders. 44(2). 331-342.

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