Back-to-School Guide 2025: Accommodations, Executive Functions, Behavior & Beyond

Back-to-School Guide 2025: Accommodations, Executive Functions, Behavior & Beyond

A 7-year-old with ADHD has the executive functioning skills of a 4- or 5-year-old. A 13-year-old’s EF age is between 10 and 11. Your expectations for your child need to align with their EF age, and your strategies for scaffolding probably need to change accordingly. Learn more. ---> IEPs are protected by law, as spelled out in IDEA. So long as IDEA law remains intact, the rights of students with disabilities to IEPs will remain protected. Howeve…