Originally Posted by aeh
EF: Peg Dawson's website and books:

http://www.smartbutscatteredkids.com/

In short, mental regulation and organization skills.

Working memory can be compared to your mental scratch paper--how much data a person can hold in his/her head, manipulate, and then either send to long-term storage or use to produce an external product.
Thanks I've seen the book before but not read it, I will put it on my list. There is just so much to read. The odd thing is the testing showed his executive skills as excellent, despite the anecdotal evidence. This is why the tester thought that he was good at things that were limited in scope.