Sustained attention and vigilance of children treated for sagittal and metopic craniosynostosis

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain how to evaluate results from a continuous performance test.
  2. Describe important aspects to consider when assessing neuropsychological functions.
Marizela Kljajić, Giovanni Maltese, Peter Tarnow, Peter Sand & Lars Kölby (2020). Sustained attention and vigilance of children treated for sagittal and metopic craniosynostosis, Child Neuropsychology, 26:4, 475-488, DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2019.1682130

Measuring visual matching and short-term recognition memory with the CANTAB® Delayed Matching to Sample task in schoolchildren

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe advantages of regression-based norm data compared to traditional norm calculations for neuropsychological tests.
  2. Explain the effect of varying demographic variables on the norm calculations for one computerized test, i.e., visual recognition- and short-term memory.

Annet Toornstra, Petra P. M. Hurks, Wim Van der Elst, Gerjo Kok & Leopold M. G. Curfs (2020). Measuring visual matching and short-term recognition memory with the CANTAB® Delayed Matching to Sample task in schoolchildren: Effects of demographic influences, multiple outcome measures and regression-based normative data, Child Neuropsychology, 26:2, 189-218, DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2019.1642316

Long-term verbal memory deficit and associated hippocampal alterations in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the necessity to develop tailored tools to evaluate cognition outside of the limits of standardized test available for this population.
  2. Describe how the cognitive phenotype of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) can inform on later psychiatric manifestations or the identification of subgroups of patients.

Johanna Maeder, Corrado Sandini, Daniela Zöller, Maude Schneider, Mathilde Bostelmann, Virginie Pouillard, Pico Caroni, Matthias Kliegel & Stephan Eliez (2020). Long-term verbal memory deficit and associated hippocampal alterations in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, Child Neuropsychology, 26:3, 289-311, DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2019.1657392

Addressing the neurodevelopmental needs of children and adolescents with congenital heart disease: A review of the existing intervention literature

Learning Objectives:

  1. Discuss evidence-based interventions that have been successful in other medical populations and may be appropriate for patients with CHD.
  2. Describe the incidence rates of ADHD in patients with CHD and available treatment approaches.

Jannel M. Phillips & Jennifer N. Longoria (2020). Addressing the neurodevelopmental needs of children and adolescents with congenital heart disease: A review of the existing intervention literature, Child Neuropsychology, 26:4, 433-459, DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2019.1682131

Neurotropic mechanisms in COVID-19 and their potential influence on neuropsychological outcomes in children

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the neurotropic mechanisms in COVID-19 and their potential influence on the integrity of brain functioning in children.
  2. Describe how psychosocial factors related to medical coping may affect young children who historically have been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Lois O. Condie (2020) Neurotropic mechanisms in COVID-19 and their potential influence on neuropsychological outcomes in children, Child Neuropsychology, DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2020.1763938

InterOrganizational Practice Committee Recommendations/Guidance for Teleneuropsychology (TeleNP) in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Learning Objectives:

  1. Articulate  resources and established guidelines for telepsychology and specific recommendations about how extensions of these practices may apply to TeleNP in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  2. Explain the progress and limitations of the current state of the art in teleneuropsychology.

Robert M. Bilder, Karen S. Postal, Mark Barisa, Darrin M. Aase, C. Munro Cullum, Stephen R. Gillaspy, Lana Harder, Geoffrey Kanter, Margaret Lanca, David M. Lechuga, Jennifer M. Morgan, Randi Most, Antonio E. Puente, Christine M. Salinas & Jonathan Woodhouse (2020) InterOrganizational practice committee recommendations/guidance for teleneuropsychology (TeleNP) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2020.1767214

Risk Management Considerations for Safely Reopening Neuropsychology Practice in the Era of COVID-19

Abstract: This webinar will focus on considerations related to resuming in-person neuropsychological (NP) practice in the era of COVID-19. First, it will describe the range of models for providing care to NP patients. In that context, we will discuss the situations in which different models may be more or less appropriate. Second, the webinar will address a risk and benefit analysis relevant to the determination of which model to use. Third, ethical, risk management and legal aspects of the decision-making process will be reviewed.

Continuing Education: 1 CE credit for completing the webinar and passing a quiz based on it.

Presenters: Margaret Lanca, PhD & Daniel Taube, JD, PhD

Materials: The recorded webinar and slides will appear on the page with the quiz once you have purchased it.

Learning Objectives:

  1. List three models of providing neuropsychological services;
  2. Describe four factors to consider in the process of deciding whether to return to in-person services;
  3. Identify three risk management strategies to minimize harm to patients and providers as in-person services resume.

Executive functions and drawing in young children with cerebral palsy: Comparisons with typical development

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the importance of comparing executive functioning of preschool children with cerebral palsy (CP) and typically developing (TD) children.
  2. Describe how inhibitory control may assist the development of drawing abilities in TD preschoolers.

Tania Cristina Freire & Ana Alexandra Caldas Osório (2019) Executive functions and drawing in young children with cerebral palsy: Comparisons with typical development, Child Neuropsychology, DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2019.1694648

Investigation of Children and Adolescents’ Mood and Self-Concept after Acquired Brain Injury

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the double hazard model and factors influencing children’s mental health and self-concept following pediatric brain injury.
  2. Discuss the association between child self-reported mood and self-concept and parents’ ratings of internalizing and externalizing problems.

Kathryn Hendry, Tamara Ownsworth, Allison M. Waters, Megan Jackson & Owen Lloyd (2020) Investigation of children and adolescents’ mood and self-concept after acquired brain injury, Child Neuropsychology, DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2020.1750577

The Contribution of Neurocognitive Functions to Academic and Psychological Outcomes in Pediatric Cancer: A Latent Profile Analysis

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe how neurocognitive functioning impacts overall academic and psychological domains in survivors of childhood cancer.
  2. Describe the contribution of identified risk factors (e.g., age at diagnosis, treatment) that predict neurocognitive subgroups of survivors of childhood cancer.

Cynthia W. Karlson, Dustin E. Sarver, Joseph S. Raiker, Flint M. Espil, Amanda D. Cox, T. David Elkin & Robert D. Annett (2020) The contribution of neurocognitive functions to academic and psychological outcomes in pediatric cancer: A latent profile analysis. Child Neuropsychology, 26:7, 881-899, DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2020.1734553