In-Person and In-Home Teleneuropsychological Assessments With Youth With Neurodevelopmental Disorders: What’s the Difference?

Psychoeducational assessments provide clinicians with the foundation for diagnostic determinations and meaningful recommendations youth neurodevelopmental disorders. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, field shifted from seeing clients face-to-face (FTF) conducting evaluations virtually via teleneuropsychology (TNP) in client’s own home. The current study sought determine equivalence of cognitive achievement scores obtained context FTF versus TNP testing. Nineteen diverse disorders completed Woodcock Johnson-Fourth Edition (WJ-IV). Results suggest generally equivalent results, caveat that measures Fluid Reasoning Auditory Processing were significantly different across testing modalities. Environmental factors, characteristics clients, administration challenges, technical considerations, practice effects may have contributed differences scores. These findings implications assessment standardization, case conceptualization, implementation school setting when psychoeducational are conducted virtually.