March 19: Demonstrating Disability After Brain Injury: New Science, New Techniques
In December 2009, Dr. Stone presented a training for the ALJ's in the Denver Region about brain injury. This workshop will cover that material, plus more.
Program Highlights
- Get benefits for clients who are truly disabled by making sure they have the right assessments.
- Save money for your clients or your firm by learning more sensitive, targeted psychological tests to ask for.
- Learn about 5 psychological tests commonly used in brain injury cases that are not sensitive to brain injury, and 6 newer tests that are.
- Don't let clients who have real brain injuries be denied benefits because a brain scan doesn't show anything. Learn what different kinds of brain scans can and cannot tell you.
- Don't waste time and money on cases that cannot be won: Learn the latest science on how experts detect malingering in brain injury cases.
- Learn how to present your client's case in simple terms. Unlike many psychologists, Dr. Stone has spent 19 years teaching brain science to undergraduates, making complex technical ideas clear to non-experts.
- Unlike CLE material on DVD/CD, a live CLE seminar can respond to your specific needs and questions. Time included for questions and case discussion.
- Register today! Call 303.669.8528 or
send the information requested below to us by email (register@assesscompetency.com)
- Listen to our free 55-minute talk on "Protecting Clients With Brain Injury." Click here.
Program Description
- Focuses mostly on traumatic brain injury, but also covers other causes of brain injury.
- Explains why damage in TBI only begins at the moment of impact, but can progress after the impact.
- Explains physical evidence for brain injury, new information on different types of brain imaging, limitations of CT scans.
- Covers in detail what different kinds of psychological evidence mean for disability in patterns of work attempts, concentration, persistence, and pace, social functioning, and episodes of decompensation.
- Covers the latest research on psychological tests for detecting malingering/suspect effort, and evidence for more sensitive tests than the MMPI.
- Covers recent controversies on concussion and mild traumatic brain injury.
- Time built in for discussion of specific case examples.
Unlike many psychologists who are expert witnesses, Dr. Stone spent 15 years teaching brain science to undergraduates,
making complex technical ideas clear to non-experts. She can help you put your case into simple terms that a jury can understand.
The right science-based questions to ask an expert witness, or the right evidence-based assessments to document a disability claim can make the difference between a claim paid and a claim denied. We teach you what to ask.
Dates & Locations
In Colorado: March 19, 2010 12:30 pm-4:30 pm, South Denver, CO.
Workshop cost for early registration (before March 9):
$150 for Disability Law Section members ($195 after 3/9)
$180 for CBA members ($230 after 3/9)
$125 for new lawyers ($175 after 3/9).
To register, call 303.669.8528
or email us
(register@assesscompetency.com) with this information: Name, firm & address, phone, type of
practice you have (disability law, plaintiff's attorney), and where you heard about the the workshop. We'll send you payment information.
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September, 2010: Capacity & Competency: How Brain-Based Disorders Can Affect Decision-Making
The Problem
- Seniors can fall prey to scammers if they suffer from early-stage Alzheimer's or other dementias.
- Families get into conflicts over whether an older parent is competent or not.
- Psychologists who do capacity assessments do not always provide information that is specific enough for courts.
- Healthy seniors are less likely to fall prey to scams; prejudices make some people assume that older=more vulnerable.
The Solution
- Learn the differences in decision-making capacity between healthy seniors and those with dementia.
- Learn the latest evidence-based tools in research on capacity assessment.
- Learn tools for navigating family conflict over estates.
- Learn the key questions to ask to get the information you need from psychologists doing assessments, especially...
- ...how decision-making can be spared in one domain & impaired in a different domain.
Dates & Locations
- In California: September 2010, details TBA.
- For information, call 303.669.8528
- or email us (register@assesscompetency.com)
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