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Kirsten Wheeler
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Assessment's Content
Each evaluation is tailored to the individual, but typically explores several key areas of brain functioning through structured tasks, interviews, and standardized testing.
Content covered in our comprehensive assessment:
- Intellectual and cognitive ability
- Attention and concentration
- Adaptive functioning
- Working and long-term memory
- Language comprehension and expression
- Visual–spatial and motor skills
- Executive functioning
- Academic skills
Cognitive and Intellectual Functioning
Assesses overall thinking skills like reasoning, problem-solving, and how information is processed.
Language and Communication
Looks at both receptive (understanding) and expressive (speaking, writing) language abilities.
Attention and Executive Functioning
Evaluates focus, impulse control, organization, and flexible thinking—skills often affected in ADHD.
Visual-Spatial and Motor Skills
Evaluates the ability to perceive, interpret, and organize visual information, as well as fine motor coordination.
Memory and Learning
Assesses short-term, long-term, and working memory capabilities (e.g., how well someone can retain, retrieve, and use new information).
Adaptive Functioning
Measures emotional regulation, social interaction, coping skills, and how well someone manages daily responsibilities.
Overview
Forensic Neuropsychology Services
NeuroBehavioral Associates offers comprehensive forensic neuropsychology services tailored to legal, medical, and insurance-related matters. Our experienced team includes clinicians with specialized training in forensic contexts, serving individuals from infancy through adulthood. Whether the concern involves brain injury, developmental trauma, or psychological harm, we provide objective, evidence-based evaluations to support legal decision-making.
Forensic cases we have experience in:
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Hypoxic-Anoxic Brain Injury
- Birth-related neurological injury
- Medical malpractice
- Psychological trauma and PTSD
- Workmen’s compensation and disability claims