Executive funtion,what do you surpose va**that is? *Mental health professionals, educators and others use this term when talking about ways that people exercise self-controll.Executive funtion involves the skills we need to organize our lives.

Experts thatat the national central for learning disability say we use executive funtion to study situations, plan askact and change our minds.They say problems with executive funtion are strongly linked to attention defectsdeficits and learning disabilities.

All of these problems can have some of the same signs--for example,trouble with working memory.what is working memory?This term is commonly used now in place of short term memory.It describes disabilitiesthe brain's ability to sto*store recent information temporarily but also to use and make sense of it.

Researchers say good executive funtion is important for success in school.Students with poor executive funtion need help to organize research.They have serious troubles deciding which of two or three tasks to do first. They have diffculty changing tasks or working on one project for a long period of time.