Maybe your child can explain exactly what needs doing and still cannot cross the starting line, or maybe you are the adult who looks organized on paper while quietly drowning in unfinished tasks. An Executive Function Evaluation in Franklin, WI digs into why starting, planning, and following through keep breaking down. No referral is required to get in touch.
Each evaluation is rooted in a baseline of cognitive and executive function and then designed around whatever concern brought you to us. One licensed psychologist oversees the process end to end, so your case is never passed along to someone new. Because these struggles seldom stand alone, we also screen for ADHD, anxiety, and learning differences that so often lie beneath the surface.
You may see a child who cannot hold onto a string of instructions, who loses possessions almost daily, and who reacts strongly the moment a routine is upended. Getting started and wrapping up feel equally hard, and homework balloons well past what it should take.
For teens, it often means chronic last minute scrambling, deadlines slipping past unnoticed, and a backpack and set of files in constant disarray. Their capability is obvious, but it rarely shows up in performance, especially when demands pile up at once.
Adults frequently describe lasting disorganization, real difficulty deciding what matters most, and a habit of beginning many things while finishing few. Underneath runs an exhausting awareness of laboring twice as hard just to stay level with ordinary responsibilities.
Your evaluation opens with a roughly one hour clinical interview in which your psychologist takes in a full history, from your developmental and school years to the concerns weighing on you now. This conversation sharpens the purpose of testing and guides which measures will be most telling.
Your psychologist then selects a battery suited to your questions, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person testing across one or two days. Where the referral question calls for it, added measures of memory, processing speed, or attention come into play, and questionnaires go home to fill in the picture.
Every piece of data, along with clinical observations and questionnaire results, is gathered into a thorough report detailing cognitive strengths, processing patterns, and any concerns. If ADHD, anxiety, or a learning difference emerges during the process, those findings are recorded as well.
Around two to three weeks afterward, you return for a feedback session where your psychologist talks you through the results in clear terms. You leave with individualized recommendations, including strategies, potential accommodations, and next steps built around your goals.
No. You are never required to have a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Reach out to us directly for whatever reason you have in mind, and we will coordinate with your other providers only when you want that.
The overlap is substantial. Because executive function is fundamental to ADHD, the evaluation carefully examines attention, planning, working memory, and self-regulation, and it screens for ADHD together with the anxiety and learning differences that can appear similar.
It measures the underlying abilities you draw on to plan, start, organize, remember, and follow through, all against a baseline of cognitive and executive function, and then relates those findings to what you live through daily.
Yes, certainly. We assess children, teens, and adults. Many adults turn to us after years of quietly compensating, usually at the point where work or family demands finally outstrip the systems they have relied on.
You will leave with a plain-language report and a feedback session offering practical, individualized recommendations: the structures, tools, accommodations, and next steps that align with how your mind truly functions.
Simply phone us at (414) 387-2100. We would be happy to describe how the process unfolds, answer any questions on your mind, and schedule a time, all with no referral needed to start.
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