ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how pediatric neuropsychologists approach the important task of report-writing. The culmination of the numerous hours that are spent with the client in interview and testing, the review of relevant records, interviewing of caregivers as well as teachers and other informants, and scoring and interpretation of the test battery, is the generation of a highly technical and detailed report. The importance for neuropsychology students of these classic texts, with their emphasis on the nuts and bolts of doing the clinical work of neuropsychologists, cannot be overstated. For clients from culturally different backgrounds, a report that is ethnorelative, rather than ethnocentric, is the goal. Report-writers must also be careful to avoid assigning blame, and to the extent possible, should strike an optimistic tone.
