Maybe your teen is smart in a way teachers keep remarking on, yet the missing assignment emails never stop. Maybe you have quietly recognized yourself in all of it. In Elm Grove, an ADHD evaluation gives that worry somewhere to go: a careful look at attention, organization, and self regulation that ends in real understanding. There is no referral required, and you can contact Core Spring Diagnostics directly.
Here the evaluation is anchored by a baseline of cognitive and executive function, because you cannot judge attention fairly without first seeing how the underlying machinery of thinking and planning operates. With that in place, your psychologist adds the ADHD specific measures your history calls for and carries the process personally from start to finish, one licensed clinician throughout. We also look carefully for anxiety, learning differences, and mood concerns, the conditions that frequently accompany ADHD or wear its disguise.
With a young child you may see attention that cannot hold even on preferred tasks, directions lost partway through, and a near constant need to move. Blurting, interrupting, and misplaced belongings are common, and reading or homework time can spiral into a standoff that leaves everyone drained.
This is where ADHD often becomes impossible to ignore. Your teen procrastinates until the last second, misses deadlines they meant to meet, and makes careless slips on material they genuinely grasp. Backpacks turn chaotic, time management collapses, feelings run intense, and grades keep landing below their true ability.
As an adult it can feel like a low hum of restlessness, an inability to lock onto anything that is not urgent, and a chronic tendency to run behind. Impulsive moves, half finished tasks, and the quiet fatigue of straining harder than your peers just to keep pace are all part of the same pattern.
The evaluation begins with a clinical interview of about an hour, during which your psychologist gathers the full history, from the earliest years through what daily life looks like today. Those details reveal the specific challenges at play and steer which ADHD specific assessments will be worth doing for your child or for you.
With the interview as a guide, your psychologist builds a testing battery matched to your concerns. In person testing generally spans 2 to 6 hours across one to two days. Take home questionnaires come with it, and those closest to the day to day, such as teachers, parents, or a partner, can contribute their own observations about focus and executive function.
Your psychologist gathers the scores, the observations from testing, and every questionnaire into a single thorough report. If anything else emerges, whether anxiety, depression, or another co occurring condition, it is recorded there too, so the picture stays complete and nothing gets quietly dropped.
Roughly two to three weeks after testing, you return for the feedback session. Here you hear the findings in clear language along with recommendations tailored to your reality: workable strategies for home, school, or work, therapy or coaching resources, medication guidance where appropriate, and defined next steps.
No, it is not. You never need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Simply contact us directly, for any reason at all, and we will get you scheduled.
Far from it. A proper evaluation combines a clinical interview, a cognitive and executive function baseline, ADHD specific measures, rating scales, and screening for the conditions that can look like ADHD. You end up with a real, layered picture rather than a checklist result.
Yes. We work with children, teens, and adults alike. Many adults reach out only after years of quietly compensating, typically once life’s demands finally overwhelm the coping systems they built without realizing it.
We screen for anxiety, depression, learning differences, and executive function difficulties, because they commonly sit alongside ADHD or imitate it, and each one shifts what will genuinely help.
Give us a call at (414) 387-2100 or reach out through the website. We will hear you out, answer your questions, and arrange a first visit that suits your schedule.
A plain language report plus a feedback session centered on individualized recommendations, including potential school or workplace accommodations and concrete strategies you can put into practice right away.
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