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Executive functioning influences a host of other cognitive processes and people
who attend neuropsychological services are more likely to display executive
dysfunction than any other cognitive deficit (Stuss & Levine, 2002). Impairment
in executive functioning disrupts a person's ability to effectively employ their
intact areas of functioning, and undermines effective self-management of other
areas of dysfunction, hampering attempts to employ compensatory strategies.
Therefore, assessment of a person's executive functioning is a high priority as
part of a comprehensive neurorehabilitation plan. Guided by the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health model (ICF model; Peterson,
2005), we suggest that an important development in the field is moving to formal
assessment of executive performance in functional contexts, in addition to more
traditional assessment of executive impairment. We outline a number of existing
studies in this area, review current measures that can provide clinicians with
useful information on these issues, and discuss how this research could be
further advanced.

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