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For many years, clinicians have recognized the difficulty of assessing executive functions (EFs), particularly in children. The tests used are criticized for being far removed from the subjects' daily activities, often leading to an overestimation of their executive abilities. Traditional neuropsychological tests targeting EFs are now recognized as inadequate due to their lack of ecological validity, and require the use of other, more ecological tools to complement them. The aim of this presentation is to introduce a new ecological battery of tasks designed to assess EFs, named eEFEe, in children and adolescents. More specifically, it presents one of the six tasks, the Manual task, and the creation of scores for rating purposes as well as the developmental data related to EFs in children and adolescents on this task. 105 normally developing children and adolescents completed the six tasks in the eEFEe battery, all between the ages of 9 and 15, at their school during school hours.The results show an improvement in success scores, a reduction in task completion time, and a decrease in the number of examiner interventions. In addition, there is evidence of improvement in EFs index, particularly on the high-level EFs scale (planning and reasoning). This study provides new insights regarding the development of EFs during childhood and adolescence within the age group studies, in the various activities offered by the Manual task. It introduces the development of an ecological rating system designed to assess EFs using task from daily life, which is essential for measuring all aspects of EFs, complementing performance-based neuropsychological tests.In conclusion, the development of tools that are more firmly rooted in the daily lives of subjects should enable a better understanding of EFs and therefore better support at the earliest possible stage, given the role of EFs in all everyday activities and particularly in learning during childhood and adolescence.
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