Our evaluations focus on identifying difficulties with number sense, calculation, math reasoning, and recalling facts under pressure. Every assessment begins with a cognitive and executive function baseline, then builds around your specific concerns.
Our evaluations provide an in-depth understanding of mathematical functioning across key areas, including number sense, calculation, math fluency, problem solving, and reasoning. One psychologist owns the process, and broader concerns can extend into a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation. We also assess how these challenges impact academic performance and daily tasks. Testing typically takes place across one or more days, paced individually rather than locked into a fixed schedule. We make access to comprehensive, specialized care convenient for families traveling from Fond du Lac and the surrounding communities.
Children who struggle with counting, learning number facts, telling time, handling money, or keeping up with math in the classroom.
Teens who avoid math classes, freeze on word problems, rely heavily on calculators, or feel anxious whenever numbers are involved.
Adults who find everyday math stressful, from budgeting and bills to tipping, estimating, or managing numbers at work.
Your evaluation begins with a one-hour clinical interview where your psychologist gathers a detailed history of math development and academic performance, from early number sense through current challenges. This conversation helps determine which assessments will most effectively identify the source of math-related difficulties.
Your psychologist coordinates a personalized testing battery that combines cognitive and executive function assessments with targeted math and numerical processing evaluations conducted by an in-house learning disability specialist. Testing involves 2 to 6 hours of in-person evaluation over one to two days. This combined approach evaluates both underlying cognitive patterns and specific math skill breakdowns. Questionnaires are also sent to you and to teachers or others involved in your learning environment.
All testing data from both the psychologist and the learning disability specialist are compiled into a detailed diagnostic report covering cognitive abilities, numerical processing, math fluency, problem-solving, and any co-occurring conditions (such as ADHD, dyslexia, or anxiety around math).
Approximately two to three weeks after testing, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks through the diagnosis and provides individualized recommendations: math intervention strategies, academic accommodations, assistive tools, and next steps tailored to your specific learning profile.
The cognitive baseline conducted by the psychologist measures general intellectual ability, processing speed, working memory, and executive function. These factors are essential context for interpreting the LD specialist’s dyscalculia-specific findings. A dyscalculia diagnosis is most accurate when the evaluators can see how the individual’s cognitive profile interacts with math processing deficits, rather than evaluating math skills in isolation.
The terms are often used interchangeably. Dyscalculia specifically refers to deficits in numerical processing and mathematical cognition that are neurological in origin. A math learning disability is the broader diagnostic category under which dyscalculia falls. At Core Spring Diagnostics, the evaluation uses both the formal diagnostic criteria and specific testing data to determine whether a math-specific learning disability is present and what form it takes.
Yes. Many professional licensing exams, including bar exams, CPA exams, medical licensing exams, and others, accept neuropsychological evaluation reports as documentation for extended time and other testing accommodations. The written report from Core Spring Diagnostics is formatted to meet these standards. If you have a specific licensing exam in mind, discuss it during the intake so the report can address the documentation requirements for that exam.
Yes. The LD specialist component of the evaluation includes screening for related learning disabilities such as dyslexia when clinically relevant. If the clinical interview or cognitive findings suggest additional learning concerns, the evaluation scope is adjusted to address them. Having multiple learning disabilities identified in a single evaluation ensures the recommendations are comprehensive.
A psychologist-only evaluation provides excellent cognitive and executive function data but may lack the specialized dyscalculia testing tools used by an LD specialist. An LD specialist-only evaluation may lack the broader cognitive and co-occurring condition assessment that a neuropsychological approach provides. At Core Spring Diagnostics, both areas of expertise are applied in a coordinated way, resulting in a more complete and clinically defensible evaluation.
Yes. Core Spring Diagnostics serves children, teens, and adults from Fond du Lac and surrounding communities seeking dyscalculia evaluations. The two-clinician team provides a level of diagnostic depth not available through standard academic screenings or single-evaluator assessments.
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