Card Sorting, Planning, and Inhibition in ASD

Executive function tests can help show how children with autism spectrum disorder think through changing rules, planning, and self-control. Executive functions are mental skills such as attention, working memory, planning, impulse control, inhibition, and mental flexibility. Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disord...

Autism Spectrum Disorder is characterized by impairments in communication and executive function, with an onset that is often noted during early childhood.

Across normal development, children improve their executive processes, which include: flexibility?adapting thoughts in response to a changing environment; planning?the actions needed to...