Maybe your child gets labeled as the disruptive one, or maybe you have been told for years that you just need to try harder or care more. Behavior and effort are often the first things blamed when ADHD is the real story. An ADHD evaluation in Verona, WI replaces those labels with answers. No referral is required to begin.
In Verona, we start every evaluation by mapping how cognitive and executive function actually perform, then build outward with ADHD specific testing centered on your concerns. One licensed psychologist sees the process through from beginning to end. Since anxiety, mood, and learning differences so often accompany or imitate ADHD, we screen for each of them intentionally.
A child with ADHD is often misread as willful when they cannot sit still, keep losing things, blurt out mid lesson, or struggle to hold attention. Multi step directions fall apart, and homework can spiral into a nightly conflict, even when the child is bright and eager to do well.
In teens, what looks like attitude may be disorganization, chronic procrastination, and a poor grip on time. Careless mistakes, forgotten deadlines, and strong emotional reactions show up regularly, while their report cards understate the real ability underneath.
Adults are frequently seen as flaky rather than overwhelmed. The reality is restlessness, difficulty focusing on anything that is not urgent, a pattern of lateness, and shaky follow through, all wrapped in the fatigue of pushing far harder than others just to stay level.
Your evaluation opens with about an hour of conversation, where your psychologist develops a full understanding of your history, from your earliest years to your present routines. What emerges guides the choice of ADHD specific assessments that will serve you best.
Informed by the interview, your psychologist puts together a battery suited to you. In person testing usually spans 2 to 6 hours over one or two days, paired with take home questionnaires. Teachers, parents, or a partner can add their own perspective on attention and executive function.
Your psychologist brings the testing data, observations, and questionnaire responses into a single, detailed report. If anything further comes to light during the evaluation, like a co occurring anxiety or mood condition, it is documented so it does not go unnoticed.
About two to three weeks after testing, you return for feedback. You receive your diagnosis and individualized recommendations, including practical approaches for home, school, or work, referrals for therapy or coaching, medication guidance when relevant, and clear next steps.
No. Core Spring Diagnostics never asks for a referral. You can get in touch directly, for any reason, whenever you choose.
No. A genuine evaluation combines a clinical interview, a cognitive and executive baseline, ADHD specific measures, rating scales, and screening for conditions that mimic ADHD. The result is a clear, detailed picture rather than a yes or no snapshot.
Yes. We work with children, teens, and adults alike, and many adults reach out after years of compensating, often when their usual strategies stop keeping up with demands.
Anxiety, depression, learning differences, and executive function difficulties, because they often overlap with or look like ADHD and change what genuinely makes a difference.
A report in plain language and a feedback session with recommendations shaped for you, including school or workplace accommodations and everyday strategies you can start using.
Call our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will help you find a convenient time. No referral has to be in place first.
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