What will you learn from Executive Function Training?

  • Attentional Control

  • Cognitive Flexibility

  • Self-regulation for alertness, sustaining effort, and processing speed

  • Time Management

  • Goal Setting

  • Organization

  • Working Memory support

  • Internalization of Speech, Self-Talk

  • Information Processing and Speed

  • Support in academics on all educational levels

  • Support in the Workplace

Welcome to a New Way of Learning

Red Light Green Light Learning Services is run by Roseanne Legrand, a speech/language pathologist, certified ADHD/RSP. I have extensive experience working with clients diagnosed with ADHD, Autism, CAS, OCD, Dysfluency, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, word retrieval, and literacy problems. I have developed an approach to successfully prepare individuals for today's modern classroom, work environment, and daily living.

Individuals with learning and executive functioning difficulties find the fast-paced environment of schools and work and life today both difficult and disorienting. They are met at every turn with confusing signals: Who do you listen to? When do you listen? What do you listen to? Where do you go next?

Red Light Green Light Learning Services provides training for individuals that will help them navigate this challenging environment.


What is my approach at

Red Light Green Light?

I work with clients in an innovative way that involves learning, communication, and sometimes movement and play.  The New York Times recently published an article entitled, "Simon Says Don't Use Flashcards," about a growing body of research showing the importance of play/movement in brain development. “Play is one of the most cognitively stimulating things…" one researcher told reporter Tara Parker-Pope. At Red Light Green Light, I have developed a series of learning and attending exercises through movement to encourage individuals to pay attention, remember rules, and exhibit self-control, "qualities that also predict future academic success," according to the New York Times piece. I focus on the “how” of learning, not on “what” is being learned. Mastering essential executive functioning skills is critical to lifelong learning and success. "It turns out that a child's ability at age 4 to pay attention and complete a task are the greatest predictors of whether he or she finishes college by age 25," concludes Parker-Pope.

 
 
 

What is Executive Functioning?

As the "air traffic controller of the brain," executive function monitors the following: 

  • Having listening skills: when to listen, knowing who and what to listen to

  • Understanding sequencing: knowing where to go and how to put it all together

  • Developing a working memory

  • Exhibiting mental flexibility

  • Displaying and using inhibitory control

  • Planning

  • Being able to initiate and monitor actions

What will the client learn from Executive Functioning Training?

  • Expand listening skills

  • Prioritize and follow multiple directives.

  • Evaluate new information and adapt to change

  • Organize materials and keep track of time.

  • Successfully tackle problems and create solutions.

Description of Programs

Executive Functioning Skill Development: Attention Intervention Training Program

My Attention Intervention Training Program is designed to integrate the client’s classroom work with other daily experiences, bridging the gap between school and life. This is a crucial step toward making progress. I collaborate with parents, teachers, tutors, and other professionals to ensure that this integration happens. Weekly emails from me keep you and all partners involved in the individual’s development well-informed and working as a cohesive team. All team members are encouraged to attend sessions and if they cannot photos and videos can be shared so that routines can be adapted for a practice program.


My goal is to help the client do the following:

  • Expand listening skills within today's modern classroom

  • Prioritize and follow multiple directives from teachers and peers

  • Evaluate new information and adapt to change within each classroom learning activity

  • Follow academic organization and instructions within the classroom and at homework time

  • Learn to tackle problems and find solutions


I work with the client to develop the specific skills of:

  • Organizing thoughts and ideas

  • Navigating the classroom and the workplace

  • Focusing on what's important

  • Resisting impulses and persisting with tasks

  • Integrating all the senses

  • Communicating thoughts and ideas in all environments

  • Increasing awareness of others

  • "Managing" the body so the mind is ready to listen and learn

 

Workshops for Parents and Teachers

Staff training on building executive functioning skills

Parent workshops on:

  • Speech/ Language development

  • Executive Functioning

  • Open forum questions that you always wanted to ask about your child’s speech, language, communication, pragmatic language development

  • Getting organized to support the client during homework and the transitions out of the home

Individual Speech & Language Therapy Sessions

Skills Intervention Sessions for communication, literacy, and writing

Clinical Observation

Ongoing assessments

​School Observations