Maybe your daughter can explain the whole project and still stares at a blank page for an hour. Maybe you are the adult everyone calls capable, yet the unfinished tasks pile up faster than you can clear them. Our Executive Function Evaluations in Monona, WI look at why starting, organizing, and following through feel so hard, and you never need a referral to begin.
Every evaluation opens with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then narrows to the concern that brought you in, all guided by one licensed psychologist from the first call to the final feedback. We work with children, teens, and adults, and because executive function struggles rarely travel alone, we screen for ADHD, anxiety, and learning differences that often sit just beneath the surface.
A child may hear a three step instruction and complete only the first, misplace the homework they already finished, or melt down when the plan suddenly changes. Getting started and wrapping up both feel like walls, and simple assignments can stretch far past a reasonable hour.
A teen often puts things off until the last possible moment, loses track of deadlines, and carries a backpack and a laptop that are equal parts chaos. The ability is clearly there, yet grades and output keep landing below what everyone knows they can do.
An adult may feel permanently behind: appointments slip, priorities blur, and half started projects outnumber finished ones. Ordinary life takes twice the effort it seems to take everyone else, and the fatigue of constant catching up wears on you.
Your evaluation begins with an hour long conversation where your psychologist gathers the full picture, from early development and school history to the cognitive concerns you are living with now. This is where we clarify what testing is for and decide which measures will tell us the most.
From there your psychologist assembles a battery chosen for your situation, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person testing spread over one to two days. Depending on the question, we may add measures of processing speed, memory, or adaptive skills, and questionnaires go home with you to fill in more context.
Every score, observation, and questionnaire is drawn together into a detailed report covering cognitive strengths, executive patterns, and any areas of concern. If something like ADHD, anxiety, or a learning difference surfaces along the way, we document it clearly rather than leaving it unsaid.
Roughly two to three weeks later you return for a feedback session where your psychologist walks you through the results in plain terms. You leave with individualized recommendations, from school or workplace supports to strategies that lean on your genuine strengths.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can contact us directly for any reason, and we only loop in your other providers if you ask us to.
They sit very close together. Because executive function is at the heart of ADHD, the evaluation studies attention, planning, working memory, and self regulation in detail, and it screens for ADHD alongside the anxiety and learning differences that can mimic it.
It looks at the skills you rely on to plan, begin, organize, hold information, and follow through, resting on a baseline of cognitive and executive function, and then ties those results back to what your days actually feel like.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, and many of our adult clients arrive after years of quiet workarounds, usually once work or family demands finally outgrow the systems they built.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session full of practical, individualized recommendations: structures, tools, accommodations where they fit, and clear next steps.
Call our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will find a time that works. There is no referral to chase down first, so you can reach out the moment you are ready.
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