Identifying and Evaluating Everyday Opportunities to Promote Early Executive Function and Self-Regulation
For children with low executive function (EF) and self-regulation in early childhood, the likelihood of poorer intellectual, health, wealth and anti-social outcomes into adulthood is overwhelming. Yet this knowledge has not yet yielded particularly successful methods for effecting EF-change with corresponding generalized improvements to other cognitive and life domains. Further, pervasive intervention approaches often are constrained by being non-routine, expensive and time-consuming. Reconciling insights from cross-disciplinary theory, research and practice, we developed a collection of low-cost and routine practices and activities for supporting early EF and self-regulatory development within pre-school contexts, and evaluated its effect on: children’s self-regulation, executive function and school readiness. This presentation will focus on the background and our approach to fostering these abilities, first through a shared book reading approach and then through our Preschool Situational Self-Regulation Toolkit (PRSIST) program. As the evaluation has only recently been completed, I will also discuss ‘hot-off-the-presses’ preliminary results from a cluster RCT evaluation involving 50 pre-school services and 473 children.
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Lunedì 11 febbraio 2019, ore 14.30
Aula U6-24, U6 (1° piano)
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Prof. Gian Marco Marzocchi