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Pediatric Neuropsychology in the Medical Setting
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:612.
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by Ida Sue Baron, PhD, Eileen B. Fennell, PhD, and Kytja K. S. Voeller, MD, 451 pp, $59.50, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Throughout the text, Baron, Fennell, and Voeller stress the importance of considering developmental appropriateness when working with a pediatric population. Their promotion of this perspective is enchanced by the provision of empirically based developmental trajectories for several behaviors (eg, motor movements) against which a given child's development can be compared. The authors also suggest strategies for retrospectively gathering "baseline" data so as to better estimate what abilities were spared, impaired, and/or repaired subsequent to neurodevelopmental insult. Further, they endorse interdisciplinary models and specifically address how neuropsychologists might most effectively interact with team members and communicate with schools.
The introduction to pediatric neuropsychology delineates the differences between it and adult models and includes brief overviews of the history of the field and recent medical advances that . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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