How does a Neuropsychological Evaluation differ from a traditional psychological or developmental evaluation?
A neuropsychological evaluation provides a deeper, broader understanding of cognitive difficulties, enabling design of a more effective treatment program. Neuropsychologists also have more experience and training in understanding difficulties caused by brain tumors, head traumas and other neurological and developmental conditions. Helping the gifted patient who is learning disabled Even gifted children can have ADD or other learning disabilities. This can be confusing or demoralizing to children who know that even though they are getting average or better than average grades, they are not performing as well as they should. Neuropsychological evaluation can determine if there are disabilities and pinpoint the areas of weakness so the gifted child can learn to succeed and work to his or her potential. Testing can be comfortable and non-stressful Good neuropsychologists believe it is important to make the testing and evaluation process as easy and stress-free as possible for both patient
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