Everyday executive function issues from the perspectives of autistic adolescents and their parents: Theoretical and empirical implications.

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Autism researchers have a long-time interest in a set of skills called executive function. These skills include planning, inhibition, and switching between one activity and another. There was a theory that these skills explained the social and thinking difficulties autistic people might have. After years of study into this, the evidence is confusing and contradictory. Autistic people tend to report struggling quite a lot with these skills. Yet, when researchers test these skills, they do not tend to find such big difficulties. In this study, we spoke to 12 autistic teenagers and seven of their mothers about this. We asked them what they thought about their own, or their child's, executive function skills. We wanted to know about things they were good at and things they

SUBMITTER: Kenny L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11408970 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature