Workshop
Back to School & Executive Function: Setting Your Child Up to Succeed
Why the start of the school year is an executive function minefield — and how to help your child navigate it.
Who
Jill Aloia
PhD, ABPP-CN
Lily Baiser
MS, OTR/L
When
Fri, Aug 21 · 01:00 PM EDT
About this session
The start of a new school year asks a lot of executive function all at once — new routines, new schedules, new expectations for organization, planning, and follow-through, often with none of the scaffolding built up over the previous year. For outside-the-box kids, that's exactly where things tend to break down first.
In this session, Jill Gitten Aloia, PhD, ABPP-CN walks through the executive function demands hiding inside a typical back-to-school transition — from remembering a new locker combination to managing a more complex homework routine — and what parents can do now to build the scaffolding their child needs before the school year gets hard.
What we'll cover:
After Jill's talk, she'll be joined by Lily Baiser, MS, OTR/L for a live parent Q&A — bring your specific back-to-school scenarios and Jill and Lily will help you build a plan.
This session is part of Kinspire's Executive Function series, designed to give parents real knowledge — not just tips — so you can understand what's happening in your child's brain and respond with confidence.
Meet your clinicians
Jill Aloia
PhD, ABPP-CN
I'm a licensed, board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with 25 years of experience, but honestly, supporting outside-the-box children has never felt like "work" to me. As a pediatric neuropsychologist, I've focused on children with neurodevelopmental differences, including ADHD, since graduate school. My research interest in neurodevelopmental differences carried me through a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Brown University. View full profile
Lily Baiser
MS, OTR/L
I'm a licensed pediatric occupational therapist, co-founder, and Chief Clinical Officer of Kinspire, and for nearly two decades, I've been driven by one question: why is it still so hard for families to get support that actually works? View full profile
Jill and Lily can't wait to meet you.
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