Maybe your toddler lines toys into perfect rows and melts down when the row is disturbed. Maybe your teenager comes home from school wrung out and silent. An autism evaluation in Brookfield with Core Spring Diagnostics is built for exactly that uncertainty, whether the person you are wondering about is three, thirteen, or thirty. You do not need a referral to begin.
Every autism evaluation in Brookfield starts from the same steady foundation: a baseline of cognitive, adaptive, and executive function that shows us how you or your child actually thinks and copes. From there the assessment bends toward your specific concerns rather than a generic script. One licensed psychologist stays with the case the whole way through, using gold standard tools including the ADOS-2, and screening along the way for the conditions that so often ride alongside autism, such as ADHD and anxiety.
Common signs include insisting on the same clothes daily, eating only a handful of accepted foods, hand flapping, and eye contact that comes and goes. Language may have developed late, tiny changes to the routine can spark large reactions, and there is often a powerful draw toward the predictable, with toys lined up carefully rather than used in play.
During the teen years it can look like social burnout and drawing inward, feeling overwhelmed by the sensory chaos of a busy school day, and struggling to interpret the nonverbal cues peers pick up without thinking. Routines grow rigid, organizing schoolwork becomes a daily hurdle, and one or two absorbing interests quietly mark them as different.
Recognition can arrive at any stage of adulthood. Many adults point to years spent masking, a real exhaustion following even good social occasions, and childhood quirks that finally make sense in hindsight. Sensory sensitivities and a strong need for routine are typical, and women and people assigned female at birth are especially likely to have gone unrecognized or misdiagnosed for years.
We open with an unhurried clinical interview, usually about an hour, focused on the story so far. Your psychologist builds a full developmental history, from early milestones through how things look right now at home, at school, or at work. That conversation guides which autism specific measures will give the clearest picture for the person being evaluated.
Your psychologist assembles a battery matched to age and presentation, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person testing spread over one to two days. Parents, teachers, or partners receive questionnaires so we can see patterns across different settings. Because autism and ADHD so frequently overlap, executive function and attention screeners are included as a matter of course.
Every piece of data, observation, and questionnaire is drawn together into one detailed diagnostic report. If anything co occurring surfaces, whether ADHD, anxiety, or sensory processing differences, it is documented and folded in so you leave with the whole clinical picture rather than a fragment of it.
Typically two to three weeks later you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings in plain language and hands you individualized recommendations: strategies for home and school or work, therapy resources, guidance on accommodations, and the specific next steps that fit this person.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are welcome to reach out and schedule on your own, and we will coordinate with your pediatrician or another provider only if that is something you want us to do.
It covers a baseline of cognitive, adaptive, and executive function, autism specific testing with gold standard tools including the ADOS-2, a clinical interview, questionnaires for the people who know you or your child well, and screening for conditions that often co occur. One psychologist owns the case straight through the feedback session.
We can begin assessing autism concerns as early as 18 to 24 months, though the right timing really depends on what you are seeing. We work with children, teens, and adults, so there is no upper age limit either.
That depends on the person. It typically opens with a clinical interview and then moves into one or more testing sessions paced to what is needed, with a report and feedback to follow. We do not commit to fixed session counts or rigid timelines.
A clear written report and a feedback session built around individualized recommendations, which may include therapy referrals, school or workplace accommodations, and practical strategies you can start using at home right away.
Give us a call at (414) 387-2100 and we will talk through your concerns and find a time that works. There is no referral to chase down first and no gatekeeping to get past.
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