What is an Executive Functioning Assessment?
Executive function summarises a combination of mental skills and processes which help you to organise, carry out multiple tasks at once and pay attention. Children and young people who could benefit from an executive function assessment may display difficulties with some of the following:
- Paying attention
- Organisation
- Following multistep instructions
- Planning
- Regulating emotions
- Self-monitoring
- Self-correction
- Processing
- Reflection
Parents, teachers and sometimes the child themselves, are asked to complete an assessment form. This is scored by the psychologist and strengths and difficulties with executive functioning can be identified in the home and the school environment.
This assessment is carried out by using an online questionnaire called the BRIEF, this is sent to parent, school and young person if over 13 years of age.
