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Soc Com Model
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 Processing:
Focus on Executive Function
There is growing consensus that successful social performance requires higher-order cognitive processing know as executive functioning. Executive functions are the decision-making and planning processes invoked at the outset of a task and in the face of novel challenges (Singer & Bashir, 1999). These processes encompass a range of abilities that overarch "all contexts and content domains" (Denckla & Reader, 1993; p. 443). As such, executive functions allow children to disengage from the immediate context and reason about interpersonal goals; a fundamental ability in forming and maintaining positive peer relationships. Language is a fundamental part of executive control (Denckla 1996, 1998). Executive functioning is concerned with the ability to utilize information. In other words, these functions play a deciding role in how we use what we know. Higher-order executive functions guide one's behavior by:
The ability to use language in interpersonally appropriate ways implicates executive function. According to Tannock and Schachar (1996), functions that are involved in social communication include:
Dysfunction in any of these components, alone or in combination, may result in social communicative deficits. Behaviors | Cognitive
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