Brain Injury Insider

Brain Injury Insider Episode 143: Neuropsychological Testing of Spanish-Speaking Adults: What Lawyers Must Know

Michael Kaplen Season 1 Episode 143

Today, we’re tackling an often-overlooked issue in forensic neuropsychology: the assessment of Spanish-speaking adults.

As the Hispanic population in the United States continues to grow, lawyers and experts face new challenges when language and culture intersect with brain injury evaluations.  These issues were raised in an interesting article in published in  the journal Brain Injury entitled “Considerations in the Neuropsychological Assessment of Spanish-Speaking Adults”

The issues identified are pertinent to all foreign speaking clients undergoing a neuropsychological assessment.

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Brain Injury Insider is a weekly podcast by The Brain Injury Law Firm ®, De Caro & Kaplen, LLP.

Host Michael Kaplen is a passionate advocate of the rights of brain injury survivors, and has been fighting on their behalf for over 40 years.

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