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Impulse control, sustained attention, working memory, and problem-solving are just a few of the basic executive functioning skills required for a child to successfully navigate their world. Difficulties with executive functioning affect various populations of children, including those diagnosed with ADHD, sensory processing disorders, and developmental delays. Executive dysfunction can affect academic, social, and functional performance.

With the right executive functioning training, therapists and teachers can more effectively recognize and address the challenges that interfere with learning, behavior, and daily life. By developing expertise in this critical area of practice, clinicians and educators gain the skills to identify delays and apply evidence-based strategies to strengthen executive function, empowering clients and students to reach their full potential.

Theramoves provides a wide range of executive functioning courses with CEU, taught by credentialed continuing education presenters with extensive clinical and classroom experience. Each course is designed to deliver practical tools backed by current research, ensuring participants gain both the knowledge and confidence to apply what they learn in real-world settings. Additionally, qualifying course participants will earn an executive functioning certification.

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What Is Executive Functioning?

Executive functioning skills originate in the prefrontal cortex and are the mental functions responsible for organizing, analyzing, and maintaining order in our lives. Being on time, starting, continuing, and finishing a required task, remembering important contextual information, and sustaining attention are all foundational skills for achieving any given goal. Every action and decision made is partially controlled by our utilization of our unique set of executive functioning skills.

Examples of executive functioning skills include:

  • sustained attention
  • impulse control
  • sequencing 
  • initiation and termination of tasks
  • problem-solving
  • complex organizational skills
  • cognitive flexibility 
  • time management

Executive function delays are not indicative of cognitive delays, and many bright children who thrive in certain academic areas may struggle with these issues.

What Is Executive Function Training?

Executive function training for therapists equips them to teach executive function skills to their clients effectively. Executive functioning skills training aims to help therapists maximize their interventions by targeting underlying skills that will impact these children’s overall functioning across environments.

Individuals learn executive functioning skills as they pass through the developmental milestones. Executive functioning skills can definitely be taught and integrated into various day-to-day activities. Therapists, especially occupational therapists, can help individuals develop these skills. It is no surprise that executive functioning training in occupational therapy has become very popular.


Executive functioning training is suitable for:

  • Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapist Assistants
  • Physical Therapists
  • Speech Therapists
  • Special Education Providers
  • Regular Education Providers
  • Pediatric Social Workers
  • Teachers

Upcoming Executive Functioning Continuing Education Courses

Explore our Executive Functioning skills online course, in-person training, or as live webinars.

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Unsurprisingly, evidence suggests that children with poor impulse control often grow up to have poorer health and earn less than their peers. When executive functioning skills are delayed or impaired, a child may have difficulty controlling impulses, using working memory, and remembering important details in the moment. 

In Theramoves’ executive function PT courses, you will gain tools and knowledge to strengthen children’s executive functioning and give them key skills to help them succeed in life.

Also available from Theramoves – ADHD training courses

Executive functioning training for teachers and therapists will help you better identify symptoms of executive function delay. Below are various common ‘red lights’ that highlight possible executive functioning delays in children, such as: 

  • Forgetting to complete homework 
  • A messy desk area or locker
  • Impulsively talk out during class
  • Difficulty coming up with novel ideas
  • Coming up with ideas, but having difficulty carrying them out
  • Poor time management
  • Difficulty sustaining focus on a given activity
  • Cognitive inflexibility with new tasks or demands
  • Difficulty with creativity in problem-solving 

Theramoves’ executive functioning training programs are helpful if a child appears to be struggling with some of the above signs and will give you tools and guidance to bring out the best in these children.

It is common for children suffering from the following diagnoses to also be experiencing executive function delays.

  • ADHD
  • ASD
  • Developmental delays
  • Children who suffered from trauma
  • Children with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Sensory processing issues

Theramoves’ executive function skills training will help you learn how to assess difficulties in children and give them the tools to grow with their challenges.

See also: Special education continuing education

Joining an executive functioning professional development course from Theramoves will provide you with:

  • In-depth knowledge of executive functioning skills 
  • Tools to learn how to identify dysfunction
  • Evidence-based, current research
  • Practical treatment interventions for different ages
  • Clinical reasoning skills
  • Multimodal approaches for the unique implementation of treatments catered to the child

Although appropriate executive function activities vary based on the client’s age, common exercises discussed in executive function continuing education  include:

  • Outdoor activities
  • Interactive games
  • Sports
  • Trampoline exercises
  • Matching and sorting games
  • Imaginative play

Theramoves offers various executive functioning training for teachers and therapists: 

From Struggles to Success: Executive Function Assessment, Planning, and Interventions for Success in School and Life Presenter: Lori Benson Adams M.Ed January 2026

Cognitive Shifting: Utilizing Executive Function-Based Interventions to Enhance Mental Flexibility Presenter: Sarah Ward, MS, CCC-SLP February 2026

Executive Functioning Masterclass: Advanced Implementation of Executive Function Interventions Presenter: Sarah Ward, MS, CCC-SLP April 2026

  • After your course order is placed, you will receive a ‘Thank you’ email with FAQs that will include all the information for the upcoming course. 
  • You will also receive a payment receipt via email. 
  • 2-4 days prior to the live webinar you will receive an email from Theramoves which will contain a link for the platform the course will be using such as GoToWebinar to complete the registration process, please go ahead and fill out the link. 
  • The email will also contain the course PowerPoint and any additional handouts.

  • Once you register with our online platform (GoToWebinar), you will receive a link to “Join the Webinar”. This link will be sent again an hour before the executive functioning webinar begins.  
  • Join the course on the designated date and time.
  • We ask that you join 10-15 minutes early to ensure proper access and avoid any technical issues. Then go ahead and make your coffee 🙂

  • For CEU purposes, our system automatically logs your attendance when you sign in for a webinar and log out. (If you have technical difficulties and have to sign back on, do not panic! No worries, the system recognizes that.)  
  • At the end of the webinar, an email is sent with the post-course quiz/course evaluation and learning outcome measure on the material presented.
  • Please check your spam/promotions folders, as it may inadvertently end up there.
  • Congratulations! Score 70% or higher on our executive functioning therapist CEUs courses and receive your certificate of completion via email.

A full refund of $75 administrative fee per course will be given for cancellations received up to 3 days before the executive function course. After that, no refunds will be given for cancellations unless a replacement participant is registered.

Pursue Executive Functioning Training at Theramoves

When working with children across varied populations, it is important to accurately diagnose executive functioning skills, as they may differ from academic difficulties and are often lumped together. Partaking in executive function continuing education will enhance a clinician’s reasoning, understanding, and overall treatment sessions. For more information regarding Theramoves’ executive function courses, feel free to contact Theramoves. 

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