Inner speech is used to mediate short-term memory, but not planning, among intellectually high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder

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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, neutral): “This, however, was not supported in a reanalysis of the Williams et al. (2008) data by Williams and Jarrold (2010), who found verbal ability to be the strongest predictor of inner speech use, rather than the relative levels of verbal and nonverbal skills.”
Brief Report: Further Evidence for a Link Between Inner Speech Limitations and Executive Function in High-Functioning Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2014, background): “These findings are in keeping with those of Holland and Low (2010), Wallace et al. (2009) and Williams et al. (2012), who found equivalent patterns of results using Tower planning tasks, and suggest that ASD children do not use inner speech to the same degree as typically developing children when…”
The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech (2015, background): “If inner speech is shaped by communicative experience—as a Vygotskian approach would suggest— then qualitative differences in the inner speech of people on the autistic spectrum may also be expected (Fernyhough, 1996; Williams et al., 2012).”
Executive function predicts school readiness in autistic and typical preschool children (2017, background): “It is also critical for children’s emerging EF skills, including in autistic children (Pellicano, 2007; Williams et al., 2012).”