Maybe your child understands the assignment completely and still stares at a blank page, or maybe you are the adult everyone calls capable while your own to do list quietly buries you. That gap between what you can do and what actually gets done is real, and an executive function evaluation in Madison, WI is built to look at it honestly. No referral is needed to begin.
Every Executive Function Evaluation here opens on a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then narrows to the exact concern that brought you in. One licensed psychologist stays with the work from the first conversation through the final feedback, and because these struggles rarely travel alone, the process screens for ADHD, anxiety, and learning differences that can sit underneath them. Children, teens, and adults are all seen.
Directions with more than one part tend to fall apart halfway through. Starting a task feels strangely hard even when your child wants to do it, belongings go missing on a regular basis, and a small change to the plan can trigger an outsized reaction that surprises everyone.
Work comes in late or not at all, backpacks and laptops turn into landfills, and grades sit well below what you know your teen is capable of. Time slips away between competing demands, and long term projects tend to become last night emergencies.
Disorganization has quietly become the baseline, priorities blur together, and appointments slide off the calendar. You start far more than you finish, and staying on top of ordinary responsibilities takes an exhausting amount of effort that others never seem to notice.
Your evaluation opens with about an hour of conversation. Your psychologist gathers your background across development, school or work, and the concerns bringing you in now, and clarifies what testing should answer so the right measures are chosen.
From there your psychologist assembles a battery matched to your question. In person testing typically runs 2 to 6 hours across one to two days, adding measures of executive function, processing speed, or memory as needed, with questionnaires sent home for extra context.
Scores, observations, and questionnaire results are drawn together into a detailed report covering strengths, processing patterns, and areas of concern. Anything that surfaces along the way, such as ADHD, anxiety, or a learning difference, is documented too.
Roughly two to three weeks later you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks through what the results mean and hands you individualized recommendations: practical structures, accommodations where they fit, and next steps built around your goals.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can reach out on your own, for any reason at all, and we will only loop in your other providers if you ask us to.
They overlap a great deal. Because executive function sits at the heart of ADHD, the evaluation studies attention, planning, working memory, and self regulation closely, and it screens for ADHD alongside the anxiety and learning differences that can look almost identical.
It looks at the skills you rely on to plan, begin, organize, hold information in mind, and follow through, all grounded on a cognitive and executive baseline, then ties those results back to what your days actually feel like.
Yes. We see children, teens, and adults. Plenty of adults find us after years of quiet workarounds, usually once the demands of a job or a family finally outgrow the systems they built to cope.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session full of usable, individualized recommendations: the structures, tools, and accommodations that fit how your mind actually works, plus clear next steps.
Call our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will help you find a time. No referral is needed to get started.
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