Types of neuropsychological diagnostics. Children’s neuropsychological diagnostics should go beyond numbers and assessments to provide a deeper understanding of the characteristics of the higher mental functions of a particular child. In quantitative diagnostics, the results are measured in numbers or percentages. In qualitative diagnostics, the main attention is paid to how the child performs the task:
1) What strategies does he use to extract information?
2) Does he get distracted when trying?
3) How does he cope with difficulties?
This type of diagnosis provides a detailed and dynamic picture of higher mental function, allowing the specialist to develop an individualized treatment or education program that takes into account the child’s strengths and weaknesses, rather than relying on simple numerical results that may obscure important details of the learning and development process. Thus, qualitative diagnostics is the most important tool for understanding the features of the child’s higher mental functions and a more effective and comprehensive direction of interventions in accordance with the dynamic principles of neuropsychological development.