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Organization:

NESCA

Bio/Description:

BIO

•Clinical neuropsychologist

•Director, NESCA, p.c. (Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents)

•Co-founder of the Children’s Evaluation Center (CEC) in Newton, MA where served as co-director for almost ten years

•Undergraduate degree in Neural Science from Brown University and doctorate at Boston University School of Medicine

•Postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology completed at Children’s Hospital in Boston

•Staff at Children’s Hospital in Boston for seven years and concurrently served as neuropsychologist to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinic at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston

•Specializes in the evaluation of children with learning and attentional disorders, as well as primary neurological disorders

•Provides consultation and training to both public and private school systems

•Frequently makes presentations to groups of parents, particularly on the topics of non-verbal learning disability and executive functioning

•Mother of two school-age children

SERVICE PROVIDED:

NESCA, p.c. (Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents) does the following:

•Evaluates and treats nonverbal and other learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, executive functioning deficits and ADHD

•Addresses special education issues and school placements

•Offers psycho-diagnostic projective testing, special-needs tutoring, counseling, social skills development and yoga-based, mind-body integration therapy for children and their parents

•Provides services of clinical staff trained in Collaborative Problem Solving, a powerful technique for realizing durable solutions to recurring behavioral problems

•Offers speech-language evaluations and therapy through a formal affiliation with Chatterboxes, a highly regarded group practice in Boston that has now expanded into the NESCA suite (www.TeamChatterboxes.com); Occupational therapy to follow

•Offers families expertise with educational planning and management of children with special needs

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Pamela Duncan Waltham, MA-based private educational therapy practice for more than 20 years

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