executive skills | ADHD Information

I'd like to second the book recommendation above.  I'm still in the process of reading it but what I have read is good. I feel like I'm a broken record about them, so I decided to gather some
information about them.

Executive skills are actually brain functions or cognitive skills that
neuroscientists have located in specific regions of the brain, primarily the
frontal lobes. These functions develop starting at birth and are hard-
wired into every person, and they’re fully developed by adulthood. They
are called executive skills because they help people execute tasks.

Every person has a set of 12 executive skills (self-restraint, working
memory, emotion control, focus, task initiation, planning/prioritization,
organization, time management, defining and achieving goals, flexibility,
observation and stress tolerance).

Here's an article about it:
http://www.talentmgt.com/industry_news/2009/June/4905/index. php

And here's a search of books that can help:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_0_16?url=search-
alias%3Daps&field-
keywords=executive+skills+in+children+and+adolescents&sprefi x=exec
utive+skills

For a wonderful book on Executive Functioning - Dr. Joyce Cooper-Kahn's book "Lost, Late and Unprepared" is simple to read and informative.  She is a local psychiatrist here in my area and I have had the chance to hear her speak at local CHADD meetings. 

I love the ADD mantra 'its not that they won't, they can't.'