Originally Posted by Aimee Yermish
Understand that the intermediate steps from where she is to where you�d like her to be often have to be a lot smaller than you think. Executive skills tend to develop from external to internal � at first, you may have to change the environment to enforce certain behaviors, then move to guiding her through those behaviors, cueing her to do them, monitoring that she has done them, and eventually ask her to to them on her own. Break things down into much smaller steps than you think are needed, and don�t move along that path towards less guidance until she has shown that she can do the task reliably at the level she�s at.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar