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Multilingual children have better executive function skills, study finds

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The study looked at 116 children ages 7 through 12 .

Twenty-one of the children with ASD spoke more than one language, and 35 of the typically developing children were multilingual.

The researchers tested the children’s executive function abilities and asked parents to fill out questionnaires assessing autism symptoms.