Executive Functioning in Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Can We Differentiate within the Spectrum?

Autor/inn/en	Verte, Sylvie; Geurts, Hilde M.; Roeyers, Herbert; Oosterlaan, Jaap; Sergeant, Joseph A.
Titel	Executive Functioning in Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Can We Differentiate within the Spectrum?
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36 (2006) 3, S.351-372 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-006-0074-5
Schlagwörter	Children; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Control Groups; Comparative Analysis; Profiles; Neuropsychology; Cognitive Processes; Autism; Asperger Syndrome + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Neuropsychologie; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Autismus; Asperger-Syndrom
Abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate whether children with high-functioning autism (HFA), Asperger's syndrome (AS), and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDDNOS) can be differentiated from each other and from normal controls on their neurocognitive executive functioning (EF) profile. Children with HFA and AS showed the most EF deficits. The EF profile of the PDDNOS group was more disturbed than the normal control group, but was less disturbed than the profile of the HFA and AS groups. Little difference was found between the three PDD subtypes with respect to EF. This study supports the view that executive dysfunctioning plays an important role in autism. The usefulness of a distinction between different PDD subtypes was not demonstrated. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10