Neuropsychological Diagnosis with Children

Abstract

Neuropsychological diagnosis with children is a highly specialized endeavor. It draws heavily from disciplines that encompass neuropsychology, functional psychodiagnosis, and pediatrics. It also departs from these established disciplines in some important ways. For example, unique issues in child neuropsychological diagnosis such as referral bias, assessment technique, and poor taxonomy distinguish it from functional psychodiagnosis, especially with adults. These issues, which serve to militate against high degrees of diagnostic accuracy, have been well articulated by Achenbach (1985), Fletcher and Taylor (1984), and Rapoport and Ismond (1984).KeywordsAssessment DataClinical ModelSpecific Learning DisabilityPosterior OddsInterpretive StrategyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.