B-23 * Neuropsychological Impact of Turner Syndrome: Importance of Parent Education, Early Detection, and Intervention: A Case Study

Abstract

Objective: Cognitive functioning in Turner Syndrome has been characterized by strengths in verbal functioning, relative weaknesses in visuospatial functioning and in executive functioning, specific learning disorders and limitations in social cognition. Ongoing parental education about potential cognitive manifestations of Turner Syndrome would facilitate early educational intervention enabling better academic and occupational outcome. Method: An 18-year-old college student diagnosed with Turner Syndrome was referred for neuropsychological assessment to rule out a mathematics disorder. She had received mathematics tutoring in junior high school and high school, but continued to have difficulty with simple arithmetic operations, associated with errors such as inversion of numbers (e.g., 6 and 9). Errors in telling time occurred due to numerical inversions. Teachers noted essay writing weakness but formal assessment or intervention was not provided. She reported being bullied in middle )