Reilly MacDonald, Mary Baker-Ericzén, Scott Roesch, May Yeh, Kelsey S Dickson, Jasmine Smith
A core feature of autism is deficits in executive functioning (EF), including difficulty with planning, cognitive flexibility, and working memory. Despite a growing need for evidence-based assessments of EF for autism populations, statistical models of many commonly used measures of EF, including the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS), have not been investigated for a sample of autistic participants. The purpose of this study was to address a gap in the literature regarding the latent structure of the D-KEFS in a sample of autistic individuals...
April 8, 2024: Autism Research: Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research