Our evaluations are designed to give a detailed understanding of how you are functioning. One psychologist guides the entire process, starting with a foundational baseline, then looking across autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, mood, behavior, and learning, alongside the emotional factors that shape daily life.
At Core Spring Diagnostics, we provide comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults in the Mequon area. One psychologist owns your evaluation from the first conversation through the feedback session, with no handoffs and no rigid timelines, so the process stays individualized to your concerns. This evaluation helps identify strengths and challenges and brings clarity to complex situations where concerns overlap. Because more than one thing is often going on at once, a thorough, structured evaluation matters. Each one starts with a foundational baseline, screens for the concerns that travel together like ADHD and autism, and ends in clear, individualized recommendations.
Big feelings that are hard to manage, meltdowns that seem out of proportion, sensory sensitivities, trouble making or keeping friends, delayed speech, or schoolwork that does not match how hard they try.
Worn out by being around people, anxiety that shows up in unexpected places, shutting down or acting out, slipping grades, missing social cues, or sensory overwhelm at school. It can look like motivation, but you sense it is something more.
Years of working twice as hard just to keep up, a constant sense of masking, moods that swing further than they should, relationships that feel harder than they look for everyone else, or anxiety and low spells that never fully responded to treatment.
Your evaluation begins with a one-hour clinical interview where your psychologist gathers a complete history, from developmental milestones and childhood experiences through your current cognitive, emotional, and daily functioning. This broad conversation is essential because a neuropsychological evaluation looks at the full picture, and your psychologist uses this information to build a customized testing plan.
Your psychologist selects a comprehensive battery spanning cognitive function, executive function, memory, attention, emotional functioning, and adaptive skills. Testing involves 2 to 6 hours of in-person evaluation over one to two days. For concerns that include learning differences, an in-house learning disability specialist provides additional targeted assessments. You are also sent home with questionnaires, and individuals closely involved in your life can complete their own to provide additional clinical context.
All testing data from every domain (cognitive, emotional, academic, adaptive) are compiled into a detailed diagnostic report. This is the most thorough evaluation Core Spring offers, designed to identify the full range of conditions that may be present, whether that is ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, mood disorders, trauma-related conditions, or a combination.
Approximately two to three weeks after testing, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks through every finding and provides individualized recommendations across all identified areas: therapy options, academic or workplace accommodations, lifestyle strategies, and a clear roadmap for next steps.
A psychological evaluation usually focuses on emotional, behavioral, and diagnostic functioning, like mood, personality, and mental health. A comprehensive evaluation at Core Spring goes further, bringing all of our assessments together into one: autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, mood, behavior, and learning, looked at side by side for the most complete picture possible.
Yes. The learning and memory tasks measure the learning curve over repeated tries, not just what someone recalls at a single moment. This shows how quickly someone picks up new information, whether they hold onto it, and whether they recognize it when cued. Understanding how someone learns, not just the end result, is central to spotting learning differences and making practical recommendations.
Yes. Many adults who did well in structured school settings find that the demands of work expose patterns that used to be manageable. A comprehensive evaluation can show whether ADHD, executive-function weaknesses, learning differences, or other factors are contributing, and the report includes recommendations for both personal strategies and workplace accommodations.
Yes. This is sometimes called twice-exceptional, or 2e, and it can be missed when evaluations focus too narrowly on deficits or on strengths. A comprehensive evaluation captures the full cognitive profile, including high performance in some domains alongside significant weaknesses in others. Identifying the complete picture allows recommendations to support both the areas of strength and the areas that need accommodation.
The psychologist observes the individual’s behavior throughout the testing sessions, noting attention, effort, frustration tolerance, response style, approach to novel tasks, and any behaviors that may influence test performance. These observations are formally documented and incorporated into the interpretation of cognitive and psychological findings. Behavioral observations often provide context that raw test scores cannot, such as whether difficulty on a task reflected inability or anxiety about performance.
Call Core Spring at (414) 387-2100 or send a consultation request through the website. Our intake team will learn about your concerns and guide you through the options.
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