How Executive Differences Affect Learning

Learning differences are neurological differences in processing information. These can significantly limit our ability to learn specific information. Thus, these disorders are the result of actual differences in the way the brain uses information which it is given. Everyone has differences in learning ability, but people who have significant learning differences may have these problems throughout their lives.
Children with learning disabilities often have executive functioning disorders as well. Executive functioning is a term psychologists use to describe the many tasks our brains perform that are necessary to think, act, and solve problems. Executive functioning includes tasks that help us learn new information, remember and retrieve information

This a quite a list which most of us do this without thinking. However, with those who have problems with planning and organising and time difficulties they also exhibit working memory difficulties which become more evident in a child’s teenage years.
How Does Executive Function Affect Learning? In school, at home or in the workplace, we 're called on all day, every day, to self-regulate behaviour. Here are some signs to look for:
• difficulty planning and completing projects;
• problems understanding how long a project will take to complete;
• struggling with telling a story in the right sequence with important details and minimal irrelevant details;
• trouble communicating details in an organized, sequential manner;
• problems initiating activities or tasks, or generating ideas independently; and
• difficulty retaining information while doing something with it such as remembering a phone number while