Basics of Child Neuropsychology

Stephen R. Hooper, PhD, is Associate Dean of Medicine, Chairperson of the Department of Health Sciences, a tenured Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is also Clinical Professor in the School of Education and a Fellow at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Hooper is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of child neuropsychology and is widely published in the areas of neurodevelopmental disorders, genetic disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, interventions, and related neurodevelopmental issues in children and adolescents. He is the author of 16 textbooks and the original developer of the Traumatic Brain Injury Online Curriculum for school psychologists and other educators in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Dr. Hooper serves on numerous journal editorial advisory boards and he reviews regularly for major journals in the fields of child neuropsychology, school psychology, clinical psychology, developmental disabilities, pediatrics, and child psychiatry.