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Protect your clients & loved ones. Get them the rights & benefits they deserve. We teach you how.
People with head injuries are routinely denied benefits they are entitled to. Scam artists regularly exploit people with autism, Alzheimer’s, or head injuries.
- Make sure that very important decisions about benefits and competency are the right decisions.
- Learn the newest evidence-based techniques for demonstrating disability following head injury.
- Understand how experts detect the disabilities suffered after head injury.
- Learn how brain-based disorders affect decision-making.
- The right science-based questions to ask an expert witness can make the difference between a claim paid and a claim denied.
- Our continuing education workshops provide this information.
Be part of protecting those who are vulnerable because of brain-based disorders.
Learn to understand how experts detect the disabilities suffered after head injury. People with head injuries have disabilities that can seem subtle, but in fact significantly interfere with work, family relationships, and other social relationships. Because the disabilities can be difficult to detect with basic cognitive testing, insurance companies sometimes deny benefits to people with head injuries who are in fact disabled. It's crucial to distinguish accurately between true disability and malingering. The right psychological tests to assess a client claiming disability after a head injury, and the right science-based questions to ask an expert witness can make the difference between a claim paid and a claim denied. Our continuing education workshops provide this information.
Learn how brain-based disorders affect decision-making. Some people who are neurologically impaired have difficulties in financial decision-making. Vulnerability to scams and financial exploitation can be a particular problem for those with head injuries, autism, Alzheimer’s, or other dementias. Doctors and psychologists are often asked to assess someone’s capacity to make financial decisions, for legal purposes. Thus, lawyers, courts, doctors and psychologists all need to understand the latest evidence-based tools for assessing decision-making capacity, including social judgment in financial situations. Financial advisors and those with loved ones affected by brain-based disorders need to understand the issues involved. Our workshops provide this information.
Our Director of Continuing Education and primary instructor, Dr. Valerie Stone, is a recognized international research expert in assessing judgment in financial situations for people with brain-based disorders. Dr. Stephen Greenspan is a national expert on the protection of those with developmental disabilities, serving as an expert witness nationwide in criminal trials involving defendants with developmental disabilities. The information that our workshops provide helps ensure that very important decisions about benefits and competency are the right decisions.
Dr. Valerie E. Stone
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