ADHD and Executive Function: Attention, Action, and Emotion

Key points

Nearly everyone with ADHD has challenges with executive function, but there are different profiles.

Executive functioning issues manifest in different ways.

Strategies for boosting EF skills, increasing focus, sustaining attention, and improving productivity help.

This post is part two of a series.

Executive Function (EF) challenges or delays in mastering EF skills almost always accompany ADHD. There can be many different aspects to EF challenges that may be more evident at different ages and in different settings. This blog post describes additional challenges not described in my last blog post . EF challenges may manifest in focusing attention , sustaining attention, or shifting attention. Or, they may show up in monitoring one’s actions and managing emotions. The cha