Supporting Executive Functioning through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

This 4-page infographic provides a brief and simple overview of executive functioning in the context of teaching college students, along with high-level strategies for supporting executive functioning.

Applying their clinical expertise in executive functioning, Lisa Carey and Alexis Reid offer educators an insightful and accessible guide to executive function skills and how they can be supported in the school setting.

The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

This video walks viewers through some of the basics of UDL and executive functions, explaining the transition from the 2.2 version to the 3.0 version of the CAST UDL Guidelines, and how that transition impacted the way that executive functions are displayed in the UDL framework.

This slide deck includes strategies that align with each consideration in the executive function guidelines: Emotional Capacity, Building Knowledge, and Strategy Development. The slides also include numerous links out to additional resources and templates.