The teacher says your child is bright, curious, quick with ideas, and yet reading just is not clicking the way you expected. When a capable kid keeps stalling on the page, our Dyslexia Testing in Sussex, WI is built to find out why. Getting started requires no referral.
One licensed psychologist stays with your evaluation from the first conversation to the feedback session, while an in house learning disability specialist takes on the reading specific testing, so nothing slips through the cracks between providers. Each evaluation begins from a baseline of cognitive and executive function and then hones in on the reading concern that brought you here. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, and we screen for the conditions that commonly overlap with dyslexia.
In young children, letter sounds may be slow to stick, similar words get swapped, and one word can appear spelled two ways on the same page. Reading aloud gets avoided, guesses come from the first letter, and there is a striking gap between how sharp your child seems and how their reading is truly going.
Among teens, reading tends to stay slow and draining, longer texts go unfinished, and spelling remains shaky despite study. They may lean on audio or memory, put off written assignments, and feel a mounting frustration that effort never quite brings them level with peers who read comfortably.
Adults might avoid reading out loud, revisit a paragraph several times before it registers, and move through workplace reading slowly, often with anxiety attached to written tasks. That lifelong sense that reading should be easier deserves attention, and many adults pursue testing only once a child’s diagnosis holds up a mirror.
The process opens with roughly an hour of conversation as your psychologist assembles a detailed history of reading and language development, from the earliest literacy milestones to today's challenges. What surfaces there points to the dyslexia specific assessments most likely to give an accurate diagnosis.
Your psychologist designs a personalized battery that combines broad cognitive and executive function testing with targeted reading and phonological processing measures run by our in house learning disability specialist. Count on 2 to 6 hours in person over one to two days, and questionnaires sent to you and to teachers or others involved in the learning setting.
The results collected by the psychologist and the learning disability specialist are brought together in one detailed diagnostic report covering cognitive abilities, phonological processing, reading fluency, and comprehension, as well as any co occurring conditions found during the evaluation, such as ADHD or another learning difference.
Around two to three weeks after testing, you return for feedback. Your psychologist walks through the diagnosis in clear, plain terms and offers individualized recommendations, from reading intervention strategies and academic accommodations to assistive technology and next steps suited to your specific situation.
No. You never need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Scheduling directly is always an option, for any reason, and if you would like us to coordinate with your child’s school or another provider, we are happy to. That choice belongs to you.
Reading disorders deserve specialized, focused testing. Your psychologist handles the cognitive and executive baseline, the wider clinical picture, and screening for co occurring conditions, while an in house learning disability specialist conducts the reading specific measures. Both clinicians attend the feedback session, so you come away with a complete picture rather than one quick opinion.
A slow reader can be slow for many reasons, whereas dyslexia is a specific difference in how written language is processed, unconnected to intelligence or how hard someone tries. A formal evaluation tells true dyslexia apart from instructional gaps or other factors and shows exactly where reading is breaking down so the right supports can follow.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults. Plenty of adults arrive after years of working around reading, sometimes soon after their own child is diagnosed. We adjust the evaluation to your stage of life and to the settings where reading matters most, whether that is college, graduate study, or your career.
Yes. The written report documents specific findings and recommendations that schools, colleges, and employers can use to put accommodations in place, including support for an IEP, a 504 plan, extended time, and assistive technology. We keep the writing plain so you can actually use it.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will discuss your concerns and settle on a time. No referral is needed, and we are glad to walk you through how the evaluation works before you decide anything.
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