{"id":13583,"date":"2021-11-22T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/last-drum.flywheelsites.com\/?p=13583"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:20:29","slug":"exeuctive-function-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism.org\/exeuctive-function-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Function and Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greg Wallace, Ph.D.<\/a>, discusses executive functioning and its impacts on lived experiences across the lifespan in autism. He defines executive function (EF) as it relates to cognitive processes, the neuropsychological framework, and real-world outcomes. The presenter provides historical context for EF within autism, highlighting flexibility as the most common EF difficulty for autistic individuals. He outlines recent studies on EF profiles of autistic children, adolescents, and adults, underscoring the connection of EF to quality of life and successful daily living skills across autistic adulthood. Wallace highlights the critical importance of EF in real-world outcomes and notes the severe lack of support beyond early adulthood before the Q&A.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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