A comparative study of executive functioning behaviours in bilingual and monolingual children with autism spectrum disorder.

Weaker Executive Function (EF) abilities have been consistently noted in individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) relative to typically-developing children, specifically with deficits in planning, mental flexibility or shifting, inhibition, and working memory. There have been mixed finding...

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Main Author: Macaro, Stefanie
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55120