ABSTRACT
Neuropsychology is the branch of psychology devoted to the scientic study of brain-behavioral relationships and their clinical applications. Neuropsychology emerged as a distinct discipline within psychology in the 1950s (Benton 2000), although it was not until 1996 that the American Psychological Association recognized clinical neuropsychology as an ocial subspecialty in psychology (Barr 2008). Similar to psychiatry and neurology, research and clinical practice in neuropsychology fall within two broad domains: adult and pediatric. Pediatric neuropsychology is the branch of neuropsychology focusing on the applied understanding of neurobehavioral functions of the infant, child, and adolescent (Baron 2004). e number of neuropsychologists who self-identify as specializing in pediatrics, either solely or in combination with adult work, has also grown steadily over time, yet represents less than 40% of the neuropsychology community (Yeates et al. 2010; Sweet et al. 2011).
