PSY 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Brain Tumor, Closed Head Injury, Neuropsychological Assessment
1 Nov 2016
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Assessment is the rst step towards planning treatment. Leads to the understanding of a child. Not just weaknesses but strengths and possible how those strengths could assist them. Child neuropsychology: concerned with understanding brain and behaviour relationships within a child, evolving from: a lesion localization model, studies of the effects of neuropsychological disease in adults. A process which evaluates multiple areas of functioning and how they impact a child"s performance in the classroom, at home, or with peers. Example: a child may have performed poorly on a timed task because of motor, visual, perceptual, attentional or speed processing de cits. The assessment process: selected according to referral, age, clinician"s preference, soundness of measures, and issues pertinent to the individual child. Tests are merely instruments and can easily be misused. Results are to be interpreted and assigned meaning. Useful because standardized tests can be compared to the child"s peers. Comprehensive neurological evaluation is recommended for a variety of disorders.
