And then we have the executive skills associated with behavioral and emotion regulation. And those are essentially the ability to control impulses. That is one of the most important things of all. And it’s like cognitive flexibility, so your ability to adjust to a change in plans or when something doesn’t go as you expect, and sometimes people include attention in that group. Attention is more of a broad construct that’s sometimes included, sometimes not.
The group that most has trouble with that cognitive flexibility is the group of kids under the broad umbrella of autism spectrum disorders, but folks with ADD and plenty of folks with no diagnosis have problems with that as well.
