Nowadays, requests for psychological or cognitive assessments are being made for increasingly younger children. This training aims to present an approach and the tools available for assessing preschool-aged children. The question of developmental perspectives and the limitations of psychological diagnoses that can be made at this age will also be discussed.
• What is a neuropsychological assessment?
• When is a referral made for neuropsychology?
• At what age, and for which disorders?
• Benefits of neuropsychological assessment
• Differential diagnoses
• Limitations in young children
• General approach
• Questionnaires
• IQ and developmental quotients (DQ)
• Global developmental delay
• Assessment of language functions
• Visuospatial and motor functions
• Memory and attention functions
• Executive functions
• Autism spectrum disorder
• Developmental perspectives