The frustrating part is how capable they clearly are. Maybe your child can explain a project in detail and still stares at a blank page, or you are the adult who looks organized and feels like you are barely holding the pieces together. An Executive Function Evaluation in Wauwatosa, WI examines the machinery behind that, how you plan, start, organize, remember, and finish. No referral is required to get started.
We start each evaluation from a baseline of cognitive and executive function and then shape the rest of it around your specific concern, so a page long list of measures is never the goal, clarity is. A single licensed psychologist carries the process the whole way through, which means no piecing together opinions from different people.
Children, teens, and adults are all welcome, and because these struggles so often have company, we screen carefully for ADHD, anxiety, and learning differences that tend to live alongside them.
This can show up as a child who loses the thread halfway through a two step request, who regularly cannot find shoes, folders, or the water bottle, and who melts down when the schedule shifts without warning. Homework balloons to fill an evening, and simply beginning a task is often the biggest hurdle.
For teens the tell is often the gap between what they can do and what actually gets done: work completed but never submitted, a digital life scattered across a hundred open tabs, and a habit of putting things off until the deadline is gone. Managing several commitments at once is usually where it breaks.
As an adult you might notice that prioritizing feels genuinely hard, that appointments slip through despite your best intentions, and that you have a long trail of projects begun and abandoned. Most wearing is the private math of spending far more energy than seems fair just to keep up with the week.
We open with roughly an hour together, so your psychologist can build a complete background: how development and school unfolded, and what the executive function picture looks like now. This conversation settles the real purpose of the testing, be it an academic plan, a workplace accommodation, or simple understanding, and points us toward the measures most likely to answer your questions.
From there your psychologist chooses a testing battery tailored to you, not a generic set. Expect roughly 2 to 6 hours of in person work spread over one to two days, with added measures of memory, processing speed, or attention when the question calls for them. Take home questionnaires round things out by capturing how daily life looks from the people around you.
All of it comes together in one detailed report: the scores, the clinical observations, and the questionnaire input, laid out to show strengths, processing patterns, and the places where things are getting stuck. Should anything else emerge during testing, like ADHD, anxiety, or a learning difference, we write that up as well rather than setting it aside.
About two to three weeks on, you return for the feedback session. Your psychologist explains the results in language that makes sense and gives you individualized recommendations: the supports, tools, and accommodations that fit, plus concrete next steps designed around the way you actually operate.
Not at all. Core Spring Diagnostics never requires a referral. You are free to contact us directly whenever you like, and we will only communicate with your other providers if that is something you want.
There is a lot of overlap. Executive function skills are central to ADHD, so the evaluation studies attention, planning, working memory, and self control closely, and it screens for ADHD as well as the anxiety and learning differences that can mimic it. You are not expected to sort out which one it is beforehand.
It examines how well you plan, initiate, organize, keep information in mind, and follow through, set against a baseline of cognitive and executive function, and then links those results straight back to the challenges you are living with.
Yes. Children, teens, and adults are all part of what we do. Many adults reach out only after a long stretch of quietly compensating, often once the demands of work or family finally outpace the systems they built to cope.
A report in everyday language and a feedback session packed with usable, individualized recommendations: the structures, tools, and accommodations suited to you, along with clear steps to take next.
Give us a call at (414) 387 2100. We will listen to what is going on and set up a time that fits, and there is no referral you need to secure first.
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