It is not that they do not care. Maybe your child finishes the homework and then loses it between the kitchen table and the backpack, or you are the capable adult who ends every week with a dozen things half started. An Executive Function Evaluation in Brookfield, WI looks at the skills underneath, planning, starting, organizing, remembering, and following through. You do not need a referral to begin.
Every evaluation opens with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then narrows to the concern that brought you in, whether that is a child who unravels at transitions or an adult buried in unfinished tasks. One licensed psychologist stays with the whole process, from the first conversation through the results, so nothing is handed off partway through. We see children, teens, and adults, and because executive function struggles rarely travel alone, we screen for what often sits underneath them, especially ADHD, anxiety, and learning differences.
You may see a child who needs an instruction repeated to get through all its steps, who forgets what they were sent upstairs to fetch, and who comes apart when the plan changes at the last second. Belongings go missing regularly, and getting started on almost anything feels like the hardest part of the day.
With teens it often looks like chronic procrastination paired with a backpack and a laptop that are both chaos. Deadlines slip by, assignments are done but never turned in, and grades sit well below clear ability. Juggling several classes at once tends to be where things fall apart.
As an adult you might recognize the constant low hum of disorganization, the trouble deciding what to do first, and the appointments that quietly slip. Underneath it is that draining sense of working twice as hard as everyone else just to keep ordinary life from tipping over.
Your evaluation begins with about an hour of conversation, where your psychologist gathers the full picture: developmental and academic background, and the executive function concerns that matter to you right now. This is where we clarify what the testing is really for, whether that is a school plan, a workplace question, or simply understanding why ordinary tasks feel so heavy, and decide together which measures will tell us the most.
Your psychologist assembles a battery chosen for your situation rather than pulled off a shelf. In person testing typically runs 2 to 6 hours across one to two days, and depending on what we are looking at, we may add measures of processing speed, memory, or attention. Questionnaires go home with you so we hear from the people who see daily life up close.
Everything, the test data, the observations, the questionnaire results, is pulled into one detailed report covering strengths, processing patterns, and the areas that are getting in the way. If something else surfaces along the way, such as ADHD, anxiety, or a learning difference, that finding is documented too rather than left as a loose end.
Typically two to three weeks later you come back for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through what the results mean in plain terms and hands you individualized recommendations: structures, tools, accommodations where they apply, and clear next steps built around how your mind actually works.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can reach out on your own, for any reason at all, and we only loop in your other providers if you ask us to.
They sit very close together. Executive function is at the heart of ADHD, so the evaluation looks hard at attention, planning, working memory, and self regulation, and it screens for ADHD alongside anxiety and learning differences that can wear the same disguise. You do not have to decide up front which one you are dealing with.
It looks at the skills you use to plan, get started, stay organized, hold information in mind, and finish what you begin, measured against a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then tied directly back to what you are struggling with day to day.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults. A lot of the adults we see arrive after years of quiet workarounds, usually when the demands of a job or a household finally outgrow the systems they had cobbled together.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session full of practical, individualized recommendations: the structures, tools, and accommodations that fit your situation, plus honest next steps.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will talk through your concerns and find a time that works. There is no referral to chase down first.
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