Perhaps report cards keep saying "tries hard" while one subject quietly falls behind, or the effort at the kitchen table never shows up in the grade. You are ready to know why. A Learning Disability Evaluation in Oshkosh, WI locates the specific breakdown and turns it into steps that help. You can come to us directly, with no referral needed.
Each evaluation is built on a baseline of cognitive and executive function first, then an in house learning disability specialist joins your licensed psychologist to run the academic testing across reading, writing, and math. Because that same psychologist stays with you from start to finish, nothing gets handed off midway. And since learning differences rarely arrive alone, the process screens for the conditions that so often come with them.
One reliable signal in children is a mismatch between real effort and the result, showing up mostly in a single area like reading, writing, or math. Work in that subject may come out slow or full of errors, and certain assignments get quietly avoided. The frustration usually looks bigger than the child’s overall ability would predict.
In teens you often see steady struggle in one subject that more studying does not fix, plus a growing pile of workarounds to get by. Specific assignments get skipped or rushed, and the gap between that subject and the rest keeps widening. That mismatch, not laziness, is usually the real story.
Adults frequently describe a difficulty they have quietly managed since school, one that only becomes impossible to ignore when a college course, a graduate program, or a career demand pushes past their coping strategies. An evaluation gives that long held suspicion a name and, importantly, documentation that opens doors.
The first hour is a conversation. Your psychologist collects a thorough academic and developmental history, tracing the path from early schooling to the challenges you are facing today. That grounding is what shows us where the learning is faltering and lets us choose testing that targets the real problem rather than casting a wide, generic net.
From there your psychologist puts together a testing plan tailored to you, combining broad cognitive measures with pointed academic assessments, usually 2 to 6 hours of in person testing across one to two days. Our learning disability specialist takes the lead on the reading, writing, or math testing while the psychologist evaluates cognitive, executive, and adaptive function. Questionnaires also go to you and to the teachers involved in the learning.
The data from both the psychologist and the specialist come together in a single, detailed diagnostic report spanning cognitive ability, academic achievement, and any processing differences. Should other concerns like ADHD or anxiety appear along the way, we fold those findings in as well, so the report reflects the whole learner instead of one narrow slice.
About two to three weeks later, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist explains the diagnosis in everyday language and lays out individualized recommendations, from academic accommodations and study strategies to tutoring or therapy resources, each one tied to the specific profile the testing revealed.
No, not at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are welcome to reach out to us on your own, for whatever reason brought you here, and we will only coordinate with the school if that is something you want.
Because academic learning disorders demand testing designed specifically for them. The psychologist manages the cognitive and executive baseline and the overall clinical picture, and our in house learning disability specialist conducts the academic testing. The two clinicians share the feedback session with you.
Our evaluations cover reading disabilities such as dyslexia, writing disabilities such as dysgraphia, and math disabilities such as dyscalculia, together with the cognitive and attention factors that influence learning.
Yes. Children, teens, and adults are all welcome. Adults often reach out once academic or job demands finally overtake the workarounds that carried them for years.
Yes. It documents the specific findings and recommendations that schools, colleges, and employers rely on, including support for an IEP, a 504 plan, and formal testing accommodations.
Give us a call at (414) 387-2100. We will listen to what is going on and book your first appointment. No referral is needed to begin, and there is no obligation in simply asking.
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