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Validity tests of the executive dysfunction hypothesis of autism
Bruce F. Pennington, Sally J. Rogers, Loisa Bennetto, Elizabeth McMahon Griffith, D. Taffy Reed, and Vivian Shyu
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter aims to examine the validity of the hypothesis that executive dysfunction is the primary psychological cause of autism. It reviews work that supports this hypothesis, defines ...
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Autism as an Executive Disorder
James Russell (ed.)
Autism continues to fascinate researchers because it is both debilitating in its effects and complex in its nature and origins. The prevalent theory is that autism is primarily ...
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Introduction
James Russell
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter presents an introduction to the title as a whole. It outlines ‘theory of mind’ mechanism (ToMM) and ‘the theory theory’ within an executive-deficit approach, practical ...
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Executive Functions in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Yael Dai and Inge-Marie Eigsti
in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Clinical Handbook
This chapter reviews strengths and weaknesses in executive function (EF) domains, including inhibition, working memory, flexibility, fluency, and planning, in adolescents (age 13–19) with ...
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Towards an executive dysfunction account of repetitive behaviour in autism
Michelle Turner
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter explores an executive dysfunction account of repetitive behaviour in autism. It defines repetitive behaviour and the phenomenology of repetitive behaviour in autism, considers ...
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Pretend play in autism: executive explanations
Christopher Jarrold
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter discusses executive explanations of pretend play in autism. This includes problems with the metarepresentational-deficit account, if an executive dysfunction explanation is ...
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Emotion Regulation and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Blossom Fernandes, Roseann Tan-Mansukhani, and Cecilia A. Essau
in Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents
Chapter 6 describes emotion dysregulation features which are associated with children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In ADHD adaptive emotion ...
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Components of executive function in autism and other disorders
Sally Ozonoff
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter discusses components of executive function in autism. It explores the discriminant validity problem, methodological issues, and the information processing approach. It also ...
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How executive disorders can bring about an inadequate ‘theory of mind’
James Russell
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter discusses how executive disorders can bring about an inadequate ‘theory of mind’. It describes a conceptual linkage between agency and self-awareness, and gives reasons for the ...
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Integrating the neurobiological and neuropsychological dimensions of autism
T. W. Robbins
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter discusses the integration of the neurobiological and neuropsychological dimensions of autism. It includes a survey of the major neural theories of autism (medial temporal lobe ...
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Motor-images, self-consciousness, and autism1
Elisabeth Pacherie
in Autism as an Executive Disorder
This chapter explores motor-images, self-consciousness, and autism, including mentalizing and executive difficulties in autism; the nature of motor intentions and imagery; action ...
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