Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

INCLUSION
Participants!	Patient group was diagnosed with CP (at least 50% of the patient group sample);
	Children/adolescents aged age up to 21 years or with a mean minus one standard deviation until 21 years of age.
Method	At least one measure of EF was used in the study;
Publication	The study must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal;
Language	The studies had to be written in Portuguese, Spanish, or English.
EXCLUSION
Article type	Not original research, such as reviews, editorials or commentaries;
	Methodological or technical only;
EF construct distinction	Focused on the executive functioning instead of the executive function. The distinction was possible through:
	(a) searching the key term “executive function;”
	(b) exclusion of papers that only used in their evaluation protocol measures to assess executive functioning and/or when authors of each paper state their object of study the executive functioning.