ptsd Vet Says Ft Harrison Va Not Qualified; Office Near Helena 'incompetent'

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The key thing for me was his very real perception that the folks administering these tests are rarely qualified to perform them let alone interpret them.

And when you take someone with a very high IQ as was likely his case, and the test comes out somewhere in the "normal" cognitive range, it is inappropriate to assume there is therefore no evidence of damage. A well qualified examiner would be able to tease out the real story from the layers of data, not just look at top level measures like current IQ.

As a TBI sufferer who has been through these tests at the VA, I can assure you that while my ability to communicate in the written form and my current IQ implies that I am just peachy, I'm not. Even if you saw me in person, as an untrained TBI specialist you might not notice my tremor, my struggle to find words, my mis use of words, my inability to calculate a tip, my inability to tolerate loud or "busy" noise around me - because I have learned to compensate for or hide them to some degree. But as with the subject of that story, my very real loss of cognitive function is, well, very real to me.

I hope he prevails.