Maybe your daughter has always been the quiet, careful one who comes home from a birthday party and melts down, or maybe you are the adult who has spent thirty years performing a version of yourself that fits in. Our Autism Evaluations in Glendale, WI look closely at what is really going on, for children, teens, and adults. No referral is needed to begin.
Each Glendale evaluation opens from a shared baseline: a measure of cognitive, adaptive, and executive function that grounds everything else. From there the assessment bends toward your specific concern rather than a generic script, and a single licensed psychologist carries it the whole way through. We rely on gold standard instruments, the ADOS-2 among them, and we deliberately screen for the conditions that so often ride alongside autism, such as ADHD and anxiety.
You might notice a child who lines toys up in exact rows instead of playing with them, insists on the same shirt and the same three foods, or comes apart when a routine shifts unexpectedly. Eye contact can be fleeting, speech can arrive late, and small changes can feel enormous to them.
In the busier world of middle and high school, an autistic teen may burn out socially, retreat after the school day, and struggle to read the unspoken rules everyone else seems to know. Rigid routines, a few deep and narrow interests, and real trouble with planning and follow through often stand out.
Autism can be named at any point in life. If you find yourself drained after even a good social evening, leaning hard on routine, or suddenly understanding childhood quirks in hindsight, an adult evaluation speaks to that. Women and people assigned female at birth are especially likely to have been missed for years.
We begin with an unhurried conversation, roughly an hour, focused on history. For a child that means a parent or caregiver walking us through early milestones and current life at home and school; for an adult it means your own account of the patterns you have lived with. What we learn here shapes which autism specific measures will give the clearest picture.
Your psychologist assembles a battery matched to your age and presentation rather than a fixed kit. Expect somewhere in the range of two to six hours of in person work spread across one or two days. Questionnaires often go to teachers or family so we can see behavior in more than one setting, and screeners for ADHD and executive function are folded in as a matter of course.
The testing data, the observations from the room, and the questionnaire results are pulled together into one detailed diagnostic report. If anything co occurring surfaces along the way, from anxiety to sensory processing differences, it is documented and folded in so you leave with the whole picture rather than a piece of it.
Every piece, the testing scores, what we observed directly, and the questionnaire input, is drawn into one detailed diagnostic report. If something co-occurring surfaces along the way, whether anxiety, sensory sensitivity, or an attention difference, we name it and address it so nothing important is left unspoken.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are welcome to schedule on your own, and we will loop in your pediatrician or another provider only if that is something you want.
You get a baseline of cognitive, adaptive, and executive function, direct autism testing with gold standard tools like the ADOS-2, a clinical interview, caregiver questionnaires where useful, and screening for conditions that often co occur. One psychologist owns the case straight through to your feedback session.
Autism can be identified as early as around 18 to 24 months, though the right timing really depends on your concerns. We see children, teens, and adults, so there is no upper limit either.
That varies from person to person. The arc usually runs from a clinical interview into one or more testing sessions, paced to what you or your child needs, with no fixed number of sessions promised in advance.
A plain language report and a feedback session where recommendations are laid out for your situation, which might include therapy referrals, school accommodations, and practical strategies for daily life at home.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will talk through your concerns and set up a time. No referral, no gatekeeping, just a direct conversation to get started.
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