10/24/2025
🧠 Executive functioning is like your child’s mental air traffic control system — it helps them:
✨ Focus and pay attention
📝 Plan and organize tasks
📖 Follow directions
🤝 Communicate effectively
💪 Regulate their emotions and behavior
What many families don’t realize is that speech therapy can play a powerful role in developing these skills.
Language and executive functioning are deeply connected. Every time a child organizes their thoughts, plans what they want to say, follows multi-step directions, or solves a problem through communication, they’re strengthening their brain’s ability to focus, plan, and adapt.
👉 For children with language delays, ADHD, autism, or other developmental differences, these areas can be especially challenging. That’s why integrating language work with executive functioning strategies can make such a big difference.
At tuLIPS Speech Therapy, we work on:
🗣 Language organization: Helping kids structure their ideas builds sequencing and planning skills.
📚 Storytelling: Retelling and creating stories supports working memory and flexible thinking.
🧩 Multi-step directions: Strengthens focus, attention, and inhibitory control.
🧠 Problem-solving exercises: Builds reasoning, adaptability, and self-monitoring.
🤝 Social communication: Encourages emotional regulation and perspective-taking.
💡 Parents can support this at home too:
• Build consistent routines and structure
• Break big tasks into smaller, step-by-step chunks
• Encourage kids to “talk through” their plan out loud
• Use play and strategy games to make it fun
When children strengthen their executive functioning through language, they’re not just learning to communicate better—they’re building the foundation for school success, self-confidence, and independence 🌱
📩 Book a consultation today: email us at hello@tulipstherapy.com
📍 Serving San Francisco and surrounding Piedmont/Oakland areas. We also offer virtual sessions worldwide and work with a variety of insurance plans.
🌷 Our goal is to make speech therapy accessible and impactful for every stage of life