Well, you know, when we talk about executive functioning and improving it, rather than listen to us, why don't we talk to our special

guest who's going to be sharing some research that she has done on the topic of executive

functioning. Now, one of our primary resources is going to be her book, flexible and focused,

teaching executive functioning skills to individuals with autism and attention disorders,

but there are also a number of published

research studies on the subject. Jackie, can you name a few of those, please?

Yeah, so these are specifically around working memory, so we talk about that a bit. So

addressing working memory and children with autism through behavioral intervention. That was

written by Bautru Shatt, Hasselhorn, Tarbox, Dixon, Naduetsky, I said it wrong, sorry Adele, Mullins,

and Gould in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. And then also further analysis of the effects

of positive reinforcement on working memory and children with the same authors in research

in autism spectrum disorder.

And then the last one I want to talk about is the effects of multiple exemplar training on a

working memory task involving sequential responding in children with autism by Balchusach,

Hasselhorn, Tarbox, Dixon, Nadowski, Mullins, and Gould in the psychological record in 2012.

So I don't know about you, Jackie, but all of these cognitive sound in terms, brain sound

in terms are a little too tricky for me.

So rather than have me try to explain what executive functioning is, why don't we talk to

our very special guest, Dr. Adele Nodowski.

Adele, how are you?

I'm doing fabulous. How are you all?

We're doing very good. I'm doing so great. You know, fall, winter, I love it. It's my favorite season

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