ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2023
Associations between executive function and attention abilities and language and social communication skills in young autistic children.
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- Impact of imitation abilities on social communication in autistic children: evidence from an Early Start Denver Model intervention study.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Self-perceived physical fitness and occurrences of individual levels of autistic traits in adolescents: a cluster association study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- The contribution of executive functions and emotion comprehension skills to the development of pragmatic competence in 5-8-year-old children.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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lay abstractExecutive functioning describes a set of cognitive processes that affect thinking and behavior. Past research has shown that autistic individuals often have delays in the acquisition of executive function abilities. Our study explored how differences in executive function and attention abilities relate to social abilities and communication/language in 180 young autistic children. Data were gathered via caregiver report (questionnaires/interviews) and an assessment of vocabulary skills. The ability to sustain attention to a dynamic video was measured via eye tracking. We found that children with higher levels of executive function skills demonstrated lower levels of social pragmatic problems, a measure of having difficulties in social contexts. Furthermore, children who were able to sustain their attention longer to the video displayed higher levels of expressive language. Our results emphasize the importance of executive function and attention skills across multiple areas of functioning in autistic children, in particular those that involve language and social communication.
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