Who should consider undergoing a Neuropsychological Assessment?
Individuals who have experienced a change in mental functioning following a fall, car accident, sport injury, seizure, episodes of extreme high fever, or disease processes such as encephalopathy, meningitis, chronic or acute metabolic, endocrine, or degenerative disorders, liver failure, COPD and other vascular and respiratory conditions; should consider the possibility that their brain functioning may have been compromised by a mild closed head injury (mTBI) or a diffuse brain injury that is not easily detected in brain imaging studies such as CAT Scan or MRI, but caused enough brain damage so as to alter their cognitive functioning. Children and adults who have a history of child abuse, early malnutrition and/or neglect, low birth weight, toxic exposure, developmental delays, unexplained and severe reactions to environmental factors that are usually innocuous to others, learning issues that have failed to improve with conventional remediation programs, severe behavioral problems, inc
Related Questions
- What are the most common pitfalls that firms experience when undergoing an Assessment for the ASPPA Recordkeeper Certification program?
- Can a neuropsychological assessment help to diagnose learning disabilities or learning problems?
- Who can make a referral for a clinical neuropsychological assessment?
