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Welcome to NESCA
NESCA is one of the most well respected and recognized pediatric neuropsychology and integrative treatment practices in New England. With offices in Newton, Hingham, and Plainville, Massachusetts, and Londonderry, New Hampshire, as well as staff in greater Burlington, Vermont and Brooklyn, NY, we are a group of dedicated, expert clinicians with highly diverse skills and broad perspective who have a shared tenacity for helping clients from infancy through adulthood along with their families and educators.
Founded in 2007 by Dr. Ann Helmus, the team of clinicians includes more than 20 master's and doctoral level professionals, offering domestic and international neuropsychological evaluations, psychological testing, postsecondary transition services, educational occupational therapy services, speech and language evaluation services, educational consultation, psychoeducational counseling, and integrative treatment services. Our work helps create the roadmap, or game plan, that allows people to rewrite the script of their lives, tell a new story and create a path forward!
Our Core Values...
- We’re collaborative—We believe that together, we achieve better answers for children and families.
- We care, deeply—We’re a values-driven organization. We chose our profession because we enjoy helping children and families. We have high expectations for ourselves.
- We build relationships—We help children build connections with parents, siblings, teachers, peers and the greater community. We’re invested in the success of children and families. We’re real and relatable. We support each other and our collective mission as NESCA.
- We are curious, lifelong learners—We learn from each other, openly sharing our experience and ideas and inviting those of our broader professional community. We’re not afraid to ask questions.
- We’re creative problem solvers—We’re flexible, not formulaic, in how we approach a situation. We act as detectives, embracing complexity, looking at the data beyond the data, leveraging a broad array of unique tools and strategies to deliver an approach to evaluation, coaching, consultation and treatment that’s personalized. We look for the good in every child, unearthing strengths and identifying the services, tools and coaching to accommodate limitations while enhancing strengths.
Types of challenges we typically evaluate and treat:
- Reading problems (including dyslexia) and academic issues
- Language-based, nonverbal and other learning disabilities
- Autism Spectrum and Social Communications disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)
- Executive functioning deficits
- Emotional issues, including anxiety and depression
- Trauma and stress-related disorders
- Intellectual disabilities
- Complex presentations that don’t fit neatly into a diagnostic category