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Neuropsychologists are specialized psychologists qualified to make a neuropsychological diagnosis...
As detailed above, the goal of psychotherapy is to intervene with people who are experiencing distress, psychological difficulties and / or emotional disorders such as...
The assessment of the cognitive profile aims to identify the architecture of the cognitive organization of the individual...
A school exemption is a special measure granted by the school board to allow a child to start preschool (kindergarten) ...
Giftedness, or high potential, historically only referred to an intelligence quotient (IQ), usually 130 and above (1). Today, it is accepted to consider the existence of several gifted profiles...
As of May 2013, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) includes conditions that used to be known as autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Unspecified Pervasive...
ADD/HD is not a new disorder, it has been referred to for over a century (1). ADD/HD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that...
Tourette Syndrome (TS) is characterized by the presence of motor tics and at least one vocal tic. Tics develop during childhood and persist throughout life to varying degrees of perception...
DCD results in a disorder, of varying severity, in the planning and coordination of the movements necessary for the execution of a voluntary action (1). It is a specific disorder affecting the development of gestural skills...
Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD) is a recognized clinical entity, but the understanding of which is still difficult (1). It is believed to be a developmental disorder...
Developmental Dysphasia is a functional disorder of language...
Dyslexia with or without Dysorthography is a neurodevelopmental learning disability specific to reading or writing. Deficits cannot be explained by other cognitive impairment...
Dyscalculia is a neurodevelopmental learning disorder that results from neurological impairment leading to specific dysfunction in number processing and absent calculation in the absence of other cognitive impairment...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an injury to the brain that disrupts the functioning of the intracranial nervous system. This trauma is usually the result of an impact causing the brain...
Intellectual disability (ID) is a disorder that appears in early childhood, and refers to severe and permanent difficulties in acquiring the behaviours and learning necessary to live independently....
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