Maybe deadlines seem to sneak up on your child no matter how early they knew, or maybe you are the adult who means to be on time and keeps arriving late to your own plans. When time itself feels slippery and priorities refuse to sort themselves, an executive function evaluation in Verona, WI can explain what is going on. You can start without any referral.
Every Executive Function Evaluation is founded on a baseline of cognitive and executive function and then shaped around the concern you bring through the door. One licensed psychologist oversees the process end to end, so continuity is never lost to a hand off. And because these challenges so often accompany other conditions, the evaluation screens for ADHD, anxiety, and learning differences for children, teens, and adults.
Directions with multiple parts often collapse before completion, and starting a task can feel strangely out of reach even with the best intentions. Items go missing regularly, and a sudden change to the plan may spark a reaction that seems far bigger than the small thing that set it off.
Deadlines arrive as surprises again and again, projects turn into overnight scrambles, and lockers and files drift into disarray. The capability is plain to see, yet the grades trail behind it, and balancing several demands usually ends with the most important one slipping.
Keeping life organized feels like a constant effort, deciding what deserves attention first is a real challenge, and appointments fall off the calendar unnoticed. You take on many things and complete few, and merely keeping up with the ordinary requires an exhausting amount of energy that stays invisible to everyone else.
The process opens with about an hour of conversation during which your psychologist gathers a full background, from developmental and academic history to the concerns present today. This discussion clarifies what the testing is meant to answer and guides which assessments will be most telling.
Your psychologist assembles a battery tailored to your specific question. In person testing typically runs 2 to 6 hours over one to two days, incorporating further measures of processing speed, memory, or executive function as needed, with questionnaires provided for you to complete at home.
The test data, the observations made during testing, and the questionnaire responses are consolidated into a detailed report on strengths, processing patterns, and any areas of concern. If ADHD, anxiety, or a learning difference surfaces along the way, those results are recorded as well.
About two to three weeks later you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist reviews the findings in accessible language and delivers individualized recommendations, including practical structures, any accommodations that apply, and next steps mapped to your goals.
No. You are never required to have a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Contact us directly, for any reason you like, and we will coordinate with your other providers only if you would prefer that we do.
The two overlap substantially. Since executive function is a core piece of ADHD, we look closely at attention, planning, working memory, and self regulation, and we screen for ADHD as well as the anxiety and learning differences that can present in similar ways.
It measures the everyday skills behind planning, starting, organizing, remembering, and following through, grounded on a cognitive and executive baseline, and then relates those results to what you are actually experiencing.
Yes. Our clients include children, teens, and adults. A good many adults reach out after years of quiet compensation, often once the demands of work or family finally exceed the strategies they had relied on.
You come away with a plain language report and a feedback session centered on practical, individualized recommendations: the structures, tools, and accommodations that fit how your mind works, together with clear next steps.
Ring our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will find a time that suits you. And once more, no referral is required to move forward.
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