Directions

Abstract

The focus of this volume has been on neuropsychological and neurodevelopmental assessment. However, clinicians should realize that electrophysiological correlates such as auditory evoked responses (AER) and visual evoked responses (VER) also hold promise as diagnostic and predictive neuropsychological techniques, either used individually or with neurobehavioral measures (e.g., D. Molfese, 1992; D. L. Molfese & Molfese, 1979, 1986). Similarly, visual habituation/recognition memory (Fagan & Detterman, 1992; Fagan & Singer, 1983) is a useful technique that has application in early developmental neuropsychological assessment. Unfortunately, space limitations and the clinical nature of this book preclude elaboration of these techniques, and their absence is not meant to reflect negatively on their merit. Use of these techniques in conjunction with neurodevelopmental measures such as the BINS (Aylward, 1995) in the prediction of later outcome would be a fertile area of research.