Maybe your child is clearly capable but stalls the moment it is time to start homework, or maybe you are the adult who has spent years working twice as hard just to look organized. An ADHD evaluation in Madison, WI gives you a real answer instead of another guess. No referral is needed to begin.
Every Madison evaluation begins by measuring how attention, memory, and executive function actually work, then layers in ADHD specific testing built around what you are experiencing. The same licensed psychologist stays with you from the first conversation to the last. We also look closely at anxiety, mood, and learning differences, since these often travel with ADHD or imitate it.
In younger children, ADHD often shows up as trouble staying with a task, constant motion, blurting out answers, and misplaced belongings. Homework can turn into a nightly standoff, and following multi step directions feels genuinely hard, even when the child is bright and eager to please.
For teens, the pattern shifts toward missed deadlines, half finished assignments, and a backpack that is its own weather system. Careless errors, a shaky sense of time, and big emotional swings are common, and grades often land well below what the teen is truly capable of.
Adults describe restlessness, chronic lateness, and a mind that only engages when a task is urgent. Starting and finishing projects is a daily struggle, impulsive choices pile up, and there is the worn out feeling of putting in far more effort than everyone around you seems to need.
We open with an hour long conversation where your psychologist builds a full picture of your background, from childhood through the demands of your life today. What surfaces here shapes which ADHD specific tools will tell us the most about your situation.
From that interview, your psychologist assembles a testing battery matched to you. In person testing typically runs 2 to 6 hours across one or two days. You take home questionnaires as well, and parents, teachers, or a partner can complete their own to add perspective on focus and follow through.
Your psychologist pulls every piece, test data, observations, and rating scales, into one detailed report. If something else appears along the way, such as anxiety or depression, it is documented too, so nothing quietly slips past.
Roughly two to three weeks later, you come back for a feedback session. You receive your results and individualized recommendations: strategies for home, school, or work, referrals for therapy or coaching, medication guidance where it fits, and clear next steps.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are welcome to reach out on your own, for any reason at all.
No. A complete evaluation includes a clinical interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, ADHD specific measures, rating scales, and screening for conditions that can mimic ADHD. You end up with a real picture, not a single yes or no answer.
Yes. We see children, teens, and adults. Plenty of adults come in after years of quiet compensating, usually once the demands of life finally outgrow the workarounds.
Anxiety, depression, learning differences, and executive function challenges, because they frequently accompany or resemble ADHD and shift what will actually help.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session with recommendations tailored to you, including possible school or workplace accommodations and everyday strategies.
Call our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will help you find a time that works. There is no referral to track down first.
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