ABSTRACT
Ethical challenges in the consideration of racial, ethnic and cultural diversity pose considerable difficulty for neuropsychologists, as they cut across practice settings, age ranges, and neuropathological conditions. These challenges are faced not only by neuropsychologists representing dominant U.S. demographics but also by those neuropsychologists who are members of the minority groups with whom they work, as many of the measures used were not developed with such groups, and many of the studies relied upon for interpretation of test data did not adequately include such groups. In addition, some of the abilities commonly assessed by neuropsychologists may not be those that are important to members of different cultures, and the expression of certain abilities may differ (Iverson & Slick, 2003; Manly & Jacobs, 2002).
