title: Executive functions and rehabilitation of the integrated self: a commentary on Ylvisaker and Feeney.
abstract: This commentary is a response to Ylvisaker and Feeney's paper "Executive functions, self-regulation and learned optimism in paediatric rehabilitation: a review and suggestions for intervention". Drawing on a diverse literature, the authors provide a broad empirical basis for a pragmatic approach to rehabilitation for children. Their contribution is critically reviewed in terms of the validity of their central thesis and the likely impact of their proposals. Although theoretically ambiguous in places and lacking the benefit of a truly developmental framework for intervention, their proposals, nevertheless, represent a coherent heuristic framework for teachers, clinicians and parents that has corollary implications for how paediatric rehabilitation is funded.
authors.affiliation: Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust, West Heath House, 54 Ivyhouse Road, West Heath, Birmingham B38 8JW, U.K. aworthington@birt.co.uk
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Worthington
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D020127:Recovery of Function