Hello,
Does anyone on this board have any experience with EFD?
I am interested in how to get a diagnosis and any experience
with treatments.

Regards,
Janet

LOL - I think we all do, with ourselves and our spouses if not with our kids!

As far as I know it's 'too new' to be a stand alone diagnosis,and is more often used as part of AS, ADHD or general imaturity.

Treatments - hum, you can hire a coach, or read books that train you to be a coach. It's the school of hard knocks, with lots of coaching and talking through for the kids who can't learn this from experience, and it takes a long long time.

If your child is also unusually gifted you have the additional challenge that the normal school excersizes that are intended to teach EFD don't work if they aren't challenging enough. for example, Why write an outline when you can hold a 40 page essay in your head?

What books have you read so far? What specific problems are your running into? Does your child already have other diagonses?

Good luck,
Grinity

My wife sent me the following article a while back detailing a study on executive attention: "Training, maturation and genetic influences on the development of executive attention", by M. Rosario Rueda et al., abstract on the web at http://www.pnas.org/content/102/41/14931 .

Apparently executive attention training works, and even can have a permanent impact on IQ to some extent.