1. Neurodevelopmental Testing Services through CTSI

2. Program overview Testing available for all pediatric patients
Infants to young adults
All cognitive domains
Formal testing performed by psychometrist with oversight by a licensed clinical psychologist
Does not provide psychologist as co-investigator
Study + budget planning
One time faculty consultation (no charge)
Recharge hourly rate for psychometrician’s time

3. Psychologist oversight
Faculty, Developmental Medicine (Shannon Lundy PhD)
Consultation services (1 hour)
Develop/address study hypothesis/aims
Study design
Study planning + test selection
Study budgeting
Review + interpretation of test results
Psychometrist identifies concerning test results and/or emotional/ behavioral/social adjustment issues, psychologist reviews
Investigator notified of concerning results/responses
Investigator responsible for notifying family or PCP

4. Study planning/test selection: domains
Overall Cognitive Ability
Attention
Executive Function
Language
Visual spatial
Memory
Fine motor
Academic Achievement
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD—ADOS-2)

5. Study planning/test selection: other considerations
Broad age range
< 1 year – adult
Questionnaires—self-parent-other administered
Emotional/Behavioral/Social adjustment screening
Attention (ADHD)/Executive Functioning
Adaptive Behavior
PedsQL
Autism screening (e.g., MCHAT, SRS-2)
SRS-2
Parenting stress index

6. Budget + recharge Hourly recharge—psychometrist time
Test administration
Test scoring
Report generation (study case report form/other)
Additional budget items
“Gold standard” certification
Other “start up activities”
Costs associated with use of non-standard instruments
Template for results disclosure, as needed

7. Disclosure of test results
If plan is for disclosure of results to family, this needs to be formally addressed in informed consent, study protocol + IRB application and will clearly state this is a research assessment and not to be used for clinical purposes
PI will be notified of any concerning/abnormal results regardless
Brief summary of results will be released based on performance relative to normal curve
e.g., “average”, “below average”, etc.
Raw or standardized scores will not be released
Recommendations will not be provided