The Assessment of Executive Functioning in Children

Area of Science:

• Neuroscience
• Child Psychology

Background:

• Executive functioning is recognized as a complex skill set.
• Clinical assessments must address this complexity.

Purpose of the Study:

• To review tools for assessing executive functioning in children.
• To highlight the importance of comprehensive assessment batteries.

Main Methods:

• Review of executive functioning assessment tools for children.
• Categorization across verbal and visuospatial domains.
• Emphasis on test batteries.

Main Results:

• Numerous assessment tools are available for children's executive functioning.
• Fewer options exist for children under eight years old.

Conclusions:

• Several executive functioning test batteries are suitable for children.
• Clinicians may opt for specific component measures over broad batteries.