Research into deficits in executive functions explains some of the difficulties experienced by people with autism, which lead to their inability to plan, control and monitor their own behaviour and cognitive func-tioning, as well as often manifesting as emotional dysregulation. Among the various components of execu-tive functions that play an essential role in the learning of people with autism spectrum disorder, there are certainly attention and visuospatial memory. Based on the results of this work, albeit preliminary, it can be said that training aimed at acquiring and improving attention and working memory skills should prioritise specific intervention on visuospatial abilities, which are very deficient in subjects with autism but which play a fundamental role in a wide variety of complex cognitive tasks such for example, reasoning, learn-ing, understanding texts, the position of objects, orientation and movement in the real environment.