Dear Colleague,

As most of you have probably heard, the neuropsychology community suffered a deep loss with the passing of Dr. Edith Kaplan on September 3, 2009, at the age of 85. At the 20th anniversary of the West Coast Neuropsychology Conference, we will honor the life and works of Edith as part of a program on child neuropsychology that she and I were in the middle of organizing when Edith succumbed to complications related to heart surgery.

The internationally renowned speakers at the 2010 conference will present their latest findings on the assessment and remediation of cognitive and behavioral impairments in pre-school and school-aged children. The speakers will (a) emphasize practical tools that clinicians and educators can use to provide comprehensive assessments and remediation strategies for children with neurocognitive deficits; and (b) highlight the role that Edith’s work played in their particular line of research. This year’s conference will also feature a pre-conference workshop on a new set of assessment tools – the Advanced Clinical Solutions for the WAIS-IV and WMS-IV – which provides new subtests, demographic-corrected norms, and effort measures designed for patients between the ages of 16 and 89. Thus, the preconference workshop on Thursday evening will be in the area of adolescent and adult neuropsychology, and the main conference from Friday to Sunday will be in the area of child neuropsychology. The program is intended for neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, school psychologists, speech therapists, learning specialists, educators, psychiatrists, neurologists, and other interested health professionals.

I cordially invite you to join us for this exciting and informative program and look forward to hosting you in San Diego, America’s finest city.

Sincerely,
Dean C. Delis, PhD
Conference Director

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Interpret and describe the latest research findings on cognitive deficits and neuroimaging findings associated with different child neurological and psychiatric disorders
• Assess long-term outcome findings in children with perinatal brain insults
• Determine common changes in social processing in children who have had traumatic brain injuries
• Describe the latest research on different remediation and medication interventions for children with attention deficit disorder and other neurocognitive disorders
• Identify deficits in mathematics skills associated with different neurodevelopmental disorders