Maybe you have been called scattered or unreliable your whole life and have quietly wondered whether there is an actual reason. Maybe it is your teen, capable but buried under missed work. An ADHD Evaluation in Stoughton, WI is built to answer that question honestly, for adults and kids alike. You do not need a referral to start.
Each evaluation is anchored by a baseline of cognitive and executive function, the underlying machinery of attention, planning, and self control, and only then layered with ADHD specific measures. A single licensed psychologist carries the case the whole way through, and part of the job is ruling in or out the anxiety, mood, and learning differences that frequently sit alongside ADHD or masquerade as it.
With children you might see attention that evaporates partway through a task, a nightly standoff over homework, and belongings that vanish weekly. They squirm, they interrupt with whatever just occurred to them, and a simple multi step chore can unravel before it starts.
For teens the tells are often procrastination, deadlines that come and go unmet, and a disorganized swirl of papers and half finished plans. Careless slips creep into good work, time is hard to gauge, and emotions can spike well past the size of the trigger.
Adults tend to report constant mental restlessness, a knack for only finishing what has become urgent, and a history of running late and double booking. After years of quietly compensating, many describe the exhaustion of outworking everyone just to keep pace, and want a real explanation.
Things begin with an hour long conversation in which your psychologist builds a full history, from your earliest years to the pressures of your current week. The details that emerge, the recurring struggles and where they trace back to, shape which ADHD focused tools belong in your plan.
Your psychologist then tailors a testing battery to you, generally 2 to 6 hours of in person assessment across one or two days. Questionnaires go home with you, and those closest to your daily life, a partner, a parent, or a teacher, can fill out their own so we hear more than one vantage point on your focus and follow through.
All of it, the scores, the observations during testing, and the completed rating scales, is drawn together into one detailed diagnostic report. Should anything else appear, such as depression or an anxiety pattern, we document it as well, so nothing is left uncounted.
About two to three weeks on, you come back for the feedback meeting. Here the diagnosis is laid out clearly and paired with recommendations shaped to your life: practical tactics for home or the workplace, referrals toward coaching or therapy, medication guidance when relevant, and a concrete next move.
It is not. Core Spring Diagnostics never asks for a referral before seeing you. Reach out on your own, whenever the question first starts nagging at you.
No. Every evaluation combines a clinical interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, ADHD specific measures, rating scales, and screening for the conditions that impersonate ADHD. The outcome is clarity, not a single yes or no line.
Absolutely. We work with children, teens, and adults, and a great many of our adult clients come in only once the coping strategies they built stop holding up under real demands.
We screen for anxiety, depression, learning differences, and executive function problems, because they routinely accompany or mimic ADHD and reshape what treatment should look like.
A plain language report and a feedback session that translates the results into individualized recommendations, covering accommodations for school or work along with everyday strategies.
Ring our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will get you scheduled. Questions about how the evaluation runs are welcome before you decide anything.
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