Aboubakar Wane’s practice consists of conducting neuropsychological assessments for children, adolescents and adults for multiple disorders, such as ADHD, ASD and DID.
He welcomes children from age 6, adolescents, adults and seniors for neuropsychological assessments. He is multilingual (fluent in English and French, with a good level of Japanese and Fulani), which allows him to support a diverse clientele.
Areas of expertise
- ADHD assessment
- IQ and giftedness assessment (WISC-V, WAIS-IV)
- Vineland assessment
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) assessment (ADI-R, ADOS-2)
- Social cognition assessment
- Memory assessment in older adults, in the context of dementia
- Post-stroke and traumatic brain injury assessment
- Comprehensive neuropsychological assessment
Assessments
ADHD assessment. This test includes an IQ test, an assessment of attentional abilities (visual, divided, auditory and sustained attention) and executive functions, questionnaires to fill in, and elements of differential diagnosis and comorbidities.
IQ and giftedness assessment. This test can be conducted from 6 years old, with the WISC-V or the WAIS-IV depending on age, from children to older adults.
Vineland. This test is used when intellectual disability is suspected, or to determine the abilities of a non-verbal patient with ASD.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) assessment. This assessment consists of two main tests, the ADI-R and the ADOS-2, which are the most widely used tests to assess ASD around the world.
Social cognition assessment. This test can be very useful to understand how ASD specifically affects you or your child. ASD affects many things, such as facial emotion recognition, theory of mind, cognitive and affective empathy and attribution bias. Patients are often given a diagnosis but little insight into how ASD affects their cognitive functions. These tools also allow a more precise diagnosis, in a context where diagnosis is highly clinical and, without them, generally prone to errors and bias.
Memory assessment in older adults, in the context of dementia. A neuropsychological assessment can help diagnose the type of dementia a patient may have. As these conditions affect different areas of the brain, assessing which functions work and which do not makes it possible to trace back the specific brain regions affected and link that profile to a condition.
Post-stroke and traumatic brain injury assessment, to evaluate cognitive impairment. Strokes, traumatic brain injuries or cancers often affect cognitive functions, impair abilities and reduce the patient’s autonomy. This is a complete test, assessing memory, visuospatial abilities, attention, language, praxis, orientation, executive functions and more.
Comprehensive neuropsychological assessment. We often think of a neuropsychological assessment as something only for patients, meaning people who have difficulties. In fact, anybody can benefit from it. A comprehensive neuropsychological assessment is far more thorough than an IQ test and gives you your specific profile across all your cognitive functions: attention, memory (short- and long-term, visual and auditory), praxis, executive functions (planning, mental flexibility, inhibition, organisation and more), language and so on.
