Executive Function Strategies to Support Your Gifted Child: A Practical Guide for Families Navigating Executive Function & Giftedness

by Adam C Laningham M.Ed (Author), Denise Michelle Hicks Ed.S (Author)  Format: Paperback Part of: Supporting Gifted Learners (5 books)

Your child can explain quantum physics but can't find their homework. You are not failing. And neither are they.

Executive Function Strategies to Support Your Gifted Child is the practical, compassionate, research-grounded guide that parents of gifted and twice-exceptional children have needed. One that finally explains the gap between extraordinary potential and everyday performance, as well as gives families the tools to close it.

Written by Adam C. Laningham, M.Ed., and Denise Michele Hicks, Ed.S., NGSX, MCP, educators with decades of combined experience inside gifted programs, public schools, and family advocacy, this book brings together the science of executive functioning and the reality of raising high-ability children into one clear, immediately usable guide.

What you'll understand after reading this book:

• Why gifted children frequently struggle with planning, organization, task initiation, time management, and emotional regulation, even when they are intellectually years ahead of their peers
• How the "EF mismatch" develops, what it looks like at every age, and why it is so commonly misread as laziness, defiance, or lack of effort
• How twice-exceptional profiles, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, anxiety, interact with executive functioning to create compounded challenges that most standard advice doesn't address
• Why the advice to "just try harder" isn't just unhelpful. It's neurologically backwards

What you'll be able to do:

• Apply age-specific strategies across four grade bands: K–2, Grades 3–5, middle school, and high school
• Advocate effectively with your child's teachers and school
• Build systems at home that actually match how your child's brain works
• Support a child from a culturally or linguistically diverse background navigating both giftedness and EF challenges
• Take care of yourself, sustainably, while doing this demanding, important work

Each chapter follows a consistent structure: research-grounded explanation, real-world case studies, numbered parent strategies, a distilled Parent Tip, and six Reflection Questions designed to help you apply what you've read to your specific child.

This is the third book in the Supporting Gifted Learners Series from Bright Child Books LLC, following Understanding, Supporting, & Advocating for Your Gifted Child and Supporting Twice-Exceptional Children. It stands alone, but rewards readers who come to it with the full series context.

If you have ever looked at your remarkable child and thought, Why can they do all of that, and not do this? This book was written for you.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bright Child Books
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 30, 2026
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8950265044
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.02 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

Other Books in the Supporting Gifted Learners Series: 

Parents- 

Understanding, Supporting, & Advocating for Your Gifted Child

Supporting Twice- Exceptional Children: Nurturing Strengths While Navigating Challenges

Executive Function Strategies to Support Your Gifted Child

Educators-

Executive Function Strategies to Support Your Gifted Students: A handbook for educators K-12

Validation Before Acceleration: A Schoolwide Handbook for Supporting Gifted Children Through Acceleration