Possibility of neuropsychological counseling in telemedicine format
The authors of this scientific research state that the neuropsychological counseling of children at the moment is in great demand because of the explosive growth in the number of children with mental development abnormalities. However, in most regions of Russia, even in large cities, there is a shortage of high-level specialists, due to the relatively recent emergence of neuropsychology from single scientific and practical centers in capitals to broad practice. Significant assistance for both practitioners in the regions and for parents of disabled children would have been provided by the transition of large clinical centers to work in the telemedicine format, that is, remote counseling. Currently, such services in the field of neuropsychology are a rarity, because there is no understanding what kind of tests to give to the patient with the hands of those caring for them, nor the targets for neuropsychological correction of children in general. These targets, according to the authors of this work, are: tone (mental and muscular), attention (for children 3-4 years it is the orientation to the stimulus), switching, kinesthetic (afferent) basis of motions, spatial orientation, objective image-representation, thinking and communication. It is these neuropsychological factors that are disclosed by the samples they offer for distant counseling.