Certified Pediatric Neuropsychologists In Maryland Return To State AAPdN Directory

Provider:

James L. Suit, Ph.D., ABPdN

Developmental Clinical

Neuropsychologist

17821 Sandcastle Court

Olney, Maryland 20832-2841

(301) 774-5345

Jlsuitphd@aol.com

Biography:

2007 Fairleigh Dickinson University

- Post Doctoral Master’s Program, Clinical Psychopharmacology

1984 The Catholic University of America

- Ph.D., Counseling Psychology

1979 Antioch University

- M.A. Developmental Clinical Psychology

Advanced Professional Credentials

• 2005 American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology

• 2000 American Board of Professional Neuropsychology

• 2000 American College of Professional Neuropsychology

• 1988 Nationally Certified School Psychologist

• 1985 Licensed Psychologist, Maryland

Specialty Qualifications:

Comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation of preschool, school-aged children and adolescents with complex medical, developmental, learning and behavioral needs;

Process-oriented approach with additional predicates of (i) developmental cognitive psychology, (ii) cognitive/behavioral therapeutic orientations and (ii) response-tointervention emphasis on outcome

Interests

• Neuropsychological consequences of attention deficit hyperactivity and/or executive disorders on instructional performance, coping skills and social/emotional adjustment;

• Recovery curves associated with traumatic brain injury in children & adolescents;

• Comprehensive assessment and multidisciplinary intervention planning with Asperger’s Syndrome, High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders and NonVerbal Learning Disabilities (NVLD);

• Developmental course & “response to intervention” with specific learning disabilities, multiple handicapping conditions and other health impairments;

• Developmental course with chronic illness (sickle cell disease), medically successful treatment of systemic cancer (acute leukocytic leukemia) and brain tumor resections;

• Relationship of compensatory effort, neuropsychological efficiency and resilience of cognitive fatigue.

• Relationship between Piagetian developmental stages, curricular standards & instructional performance and cognitive/behavioral interventions