Executive Function Institute
Connecting Hearts and Minds for Learning
Executive Function Solutions
for professionals, schools, and caregivers. Our mission is to use a child’s STRENGTHS and positive strategies to support thinking and doing skills. We consider sensory and body regulation as a foundation for building higher-level cognition. Interoception training is built into everything we do. When children are comfortable, they can access abilities to plan, organize, manage time, and access higher-level brain function. Our evidence-based programs were developed to provide a visual relationship between a train, the environment, a child’s strengths, theory of mind, and interoceptive awareness.
Cara Koscinski, OTD, MOT, OTR/L, CAS
Dr. Koscinski is a longtime pediatric OT practitioner passionate about autism, interoception, and executive function. If you’re looking for strengths-based ideas to help connect the brain and body, you’re in the right place! She's a lifelong learner who loves evidence, integrating a child’s strengths into therapy, and sharing knowledge with others through authorships, live presentations, mentorships, and courses.
Much of Dr. Koscinski's expertise comes directly from lived experience raising her autistic children. They've taught her to reframe thinking - "Not IF but HOW can we provide opportunity." Changing our thinking from doing to children to doing with children should guide our therapeutic methods. Using a child's strengths and interests improves outcomes and builds agency.
Through her doctoral work, Cara developed the Executive Function Express program.
