Brown Executive Function/Attention Scales

Audience

This workshop is designed for allied health professionals, including Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers, and rehabilitation practitioners. It is particularly relevant for those supporting children and young people whose executive functioning challenges affect engagement, learning, and participation in daily activities.

Course Description

Executive functioning underpins key skills such as planning, organisation, working memory, flexibility, and self-regulation. When difficulties emerge, they can significantly affect a child’s ability to learn, form relationships, and manage everyday demands.

This workshop provides allied health professionals with a structured framework for assessing executive functioning in children and teens. Participants will learn to use a range of assessment tools, including the BRIEF, Brown Scales, and task observations, while considering the influence of interoception, cognition, sensory processing, anxiety, learning preferences, and family context.

The session explores practical intervention approaches that can be applied across therapy, home, school, and community settings. Strategies include visuals, reminders, environmental modifications, co-regulation, and collaborative goal setting. The workshop emphasises engaging families and educators to ensure strategies are meaningful, generalised, and sustainable.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Define executive functioning and recognise common challenges for children and teens, including difficulties with task initiation, organisation, working memory, planning, flexibility, and impulse control.
• Identify suitable assessment tools, such as BRIEF, Brown Scales, and task observations, to assess executive functioning needs.
• Understand how individual factors—such as interoception, cognition, sensory processing, anxiety, learning preferences, and family or school context—shape executive functioning profiles.
• Develop intervention strategies that target executive functioning skills across therapy, home, school, and community environments.
• Apply practical tools and adaptive supports, including visuals, reminders, environmental modifications, and co-regulation approaches, to enhance participation and success in daily activities.
• Collaborate with children, families, and schools in goal setting and intervention planning to promote strategy generalisation and long-term independence.

Pre-Requisites

Confidentiality

All workshop materials, including recordings, slides, and case examples, must be treated as confidential. By enrolling, you agree to:

• Not copy, record, or distribute any part of the workshop content in any format.
• Keep your login details secure and ensure only you access the provided materials.
• Avoid showing or sharing content with colleagues, peers, or external groups unless they have purchased their own access.

Intellectual Property

All training resources, templates, workbooks, and guides are the intellectual property of Verve OT Learning. These materials are provided for your personal learning and professional development. You agree to:

• Use the content solely for your own clinical or educational purposes.
• Not reproduce, adapt, or distribute the materials without written permission from Verve OT Learning.
• Not screenshot, duplicate, or repurpose any part of the workshop materials, including video or text, for sharing with others.

Resources and Templates

Any templates or guides provided with the training are designed to support your practice. Editable versions may be supplied for you to adapt for your client work. To use these resources within a team or organisation, each professional must hold their own licence or course access.

Presenters

Alyce Svensk

Alyce Svensk is a Paediatric Occupational Therapist, educator, and mentor with more than 14 years of experience. She founded and led Sensational Start OT, a paediatric private practice, from 2017 to 2024 before launching The OT Coach Australia.

Through supervision, mentoring, clinical education, and business support, Alyce helps occupational therapists feel confident in their practice and clear in their career direction. She offers practical, down-to-earth workshops, supervision, and mentoring programs for therapists at every stage of their career.

Alyce also hosts two podcasts: OT Coaching Confidential, featuring real-life mentoring conversations, and OT Unplugged, co-hosted with Sarah Collison and Nikki Cousins, which explores the future of occupational therapy. Across all her work, Alyce is passionate about helping therapists bridge the gap between theory and practice while building sustainable, meaningful careers.

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