It is not that they do not care. Maybe your child knows exactly what to do and still cannot get started, loses the homework that is already finished, or comes undone by a change in plans. Maybe you are the adult who is bright and capable on paper but drowning in unfinished tasks and missed deadlines. At Core Spring Diagnostics, we provide comprehensive executive function evaluations for children, teens, and adults in the Pewaukee area. These assessments are designed to identify patterns in how individuals manage tasks, regulate behavior, and organize their thinking and actions. You can reach out directly, with no referral needed.
Every evaluation starts with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then is built around the specific concern, with one licensed psychologist guiding the entire process. We evaluate children, teens, and adults, and we screen for the conditions that often sit underneath executive function struggles, especially ADHD and anxiety.
Signs may include trouble following multi step instructions, frequent forgetfulness, difficulty transitioning between tasks, emotional outbursts related to frustration, poor time awareness, and inconsistent academic performance despite understanding material.
Executive function challenges often appear as chronic procrastination, missed deadlines, disorganized schoolwork, difficulty managing long term projects, impulsive decision making, and struggles balancing academic and social responsibilities.
Symptoms may include persistent disorganization, difficulty prioritizing tasks, missed appointments, trouble completing projects, impulsive choices, emotional regulation challenges, and workplace underperformance relative to ability.
Your evaluation begins with a one-hour clinical interview where your psychologist gathers a complete background, from developmental and academic history through current cognitive concerns. This conversation helps clarify the purpose of testing (whether for giftedness identification, cognitive baseline, academic planning, or other goals) and determines which assessments will be most informative.
Your psychologist selects a personalized battery of cognitive and intellectual assessments. Testing involves 2 to 6 hours of in-person evaluation over one to two days. Depending on the referral question, additional measures of executive function, processing speed, memory, or adaptive skills may be included. Questionnaires are also sent home to provide additional context.
All testing data, clinical observations, and questionnaire results are compiled into a detailed report covering intellectual abilities, cognitive strengths, processing patterns, and any areas of concern. If additional conditions surface during the evaluation (such as ADHD, anxiety, or learning differences), those findings are documented as well.
Approximately two to three weeks after testing, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks through the results and provides individualized recommendations: educational planning guidance, strategies that leverage your cognitive strengths, accommodations if applicable, and next steps tailored to your goals.
No. You never need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can reach out directly, for any reason, and we coordinate with your other providers only if you want us to.
They overlap closely. Executive function difficulties are central to ADHD, so the evaluation looks carefully at attention, planning, working memory, and self regulation, and it screens for ADHD as well as anxiety and learning differences that can look similar.
It measures the underlying skills you use to plan, start, organize, remember, and follow through, on a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then connects those results to what you are experiencing day to day.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults. Many adults come to us after a lifetime of compensating, often when work or family demands finally outpace the workarounds.
A plain language report and a feedback session with practical, individualized recommendations: structures, tools, accommodations, and next steps tailored to how your brain actually works.
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