Maybe the nightly reading routine has quietly become a battle, and your bright kid still stumbles over words they saw yesterday. Dyslexia Testing in Elkhorn, WI at Core Spring Diagnostics looks closely at how reading is actually working, then turns that into answers you can use. You do not need a referral to begin.
From your first conversation through the feedback session, a single licensed psychologist stays with your case, and for the reading specific portion an in house learning disability specialist tests alongside them, so no piece of the picture gets handed off and lost. We assess children, teens, and adults, and because dyslexia so often shares the room with other conditions, every evaluation screens for what tends to come with it.
You might notice slow, effortful reading, guessing a word from just its first letter, or the same word spelled two ways on one page. Learning letter sounds may have come hard, and there is often a striking gap between how sharp they seem in conversation and how reading is actually going.
Reading stays slow and draining, assigned texts pile up unfinished, and spelling never quite firms up. Many lean on audio or memory to get through, quietly avoid written work, and carry a growing frustration that no amount of effort seems to close the distance from their classmates.
You may reread a paragraph several times to make it stick, dread reading aloud, or feel a quiet anxiety around anything written at work. Plenty of adults only pursue testing after a son or daughter is diagnosed and they suddenly see their own childhood in it.
We start with a roughly one hour interview where your psychologist walks through your reading and language history, from the earliest literacy milestones to the challenges you are facing now. That conversation shapes which dyslexia specific measures will yield the clearest, most accurate diagnosis.
Your psychologist assembles a personalized battery that pairs broad cognitive and executive function testing with focused reading and phonological work handled by our in house learning disability specialist. Expect roughly 2 to 6 hours in person across one to two days. Questionnaires also go out to you and to teachers or others close to the learning environment.
Findings from both the psychologist and the learning disability specialist are drawn together into one detailed diagnostic report. It covers cognitive ability, phonological processing, reading fluency and comprehension, and any co occurring conditions the evaluation surfaced, such as ADHD or a second learning difference.
Typically two to three weeks later you return for a feedback session where your psychologist explains the diagnosis in plain terms and lays out individualized next steps: reading intervention approaches, academic accommodations, and assistive technology options matched to your situation.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are welcome to schedule directly, for any reason at all, and if you would like us to coordinate with your child’s school or another provider, we will gladly do that. The decision stays with you.
Reading disorders reward focused, specialized testing. Your psychologist owns the cognitive and executive baseline, the overall clinical picture, and the screening for other conditions, while the in house learning disability specialist runs the reading specific measures. Both sit in on the feedback session, so what you get is a complete read rather than one hurried opinion.
Dyslexia is a specific difference in how the brain processes written language, and it has nothing to do with intelligence, effort, or willpower. A formal evaluation separates true dyslexia from thin reading instruction or other explanations, and it locates exactly where the breakdown happens so the right supports can follow.
Yes. We evaluate adults right alongside children and teens. Many adults reach out after years of quietly working around reading, sometimes right after their own child’s diagnosis. We shape the evaluation to your stage of life and to the places reading matters most, whether that is a degree program or your job.
Yes. The written report spells out concrete findings and recommendations that schools, colleges, and employers can act on, supporting an IEP, a 504 plan, extended time, and assistive technology. It is written in plain language so you can put it to work without a translator.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will talk through your concerns and find a starting point that fits. There is no referral to chase and no hoops to clear first; a single conversation gets the process moving.
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