Real-world executive functioning for autistic children in school and home settings.

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Executive functioning skills are important for children to be able to control thoughts, emotions, and actions, and for their ability to adapt to different settings. Previous studies have found that autistic children have difficulty with executive functioning, but most of these studies took place in the home setting. Executive functioning skills in autistic children have not yet been fully examined in the school setting. This is a knowledge gap that needs to be addressed because the school setting is potentially one of the most demanding in terms of executive functioning and is a setting where executive function interventions are already being used for autistic children. In order to learn more about executive functioning for autistic children in the school setting, this

SUBMITTER: Tschida JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8882695 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature