Maybe report card comments keep saying your child is capable but not applying themselves, when you know the effort is real and something else is going on. A Learning Disability Evaluation in Franklin, WI gets to the bottom of it, showing you where learning breaks down and what will actually help. You can reach out on your own, with no referral required.
Everything begins with a baseline of cognitive and executive function, the reference point that gives the rest of the evaluation meaning. From there an in house learning disability specialist joins your psychologist to conduct the academic testing, studying reading, writing, and math closely. One licensed psychologist oversees the case throughout, and we screen for the conditions that so often accompany a learning difference so nothing hides in the background.
You keep seeing a gap between how hard your child works and what comes back in reading, writing, or math. They may sidestep one subject in particular, move slowly or make frequent errors in that single area, and show a frustration that simply does not match how capable they are in everything else.
Even with real, consistent effort, your teen keeps falling short in one specific subject and has built quiet workarounds to cope. Particular assignments get put off or avoided, and the gap keeps stretching wider no matter how much extra practice is added.
A difficulty in one academic area has followed you for years, quietly managed until the demands rise again. It often resurfaces during college, a graduate program, or a career, and now you would rather have a clear answer than keep improvising around it.
Your evaluation starts with a one hour clinical interview during which your psychologist puts together a complete academic and developmental history, from the earliest school years through today's challenges. This conversation helps us identify where learning is breaking down and which specific assessments will prove most useful.
Your psychologist designs a personalized testing battery that blends broad cognitive assessments with targeted academic skill measures, generally 2 to 6 hours of in person testing over one to two days. An in house learning disability specialist provides the focused reading, writing, or math assessments that complement the psychologist's evaluation of cognitive, executive, and adaptive functioning. Questionnaires are sent home to you and to teachers or others closely involved in the learning.
Approximately two to three weeks after testing, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the diagnosis and offers individualized recommendations: academic accommodations, strategies for school or work, therapy or tutoring resources, and next steps built around your specific learning profile.
Generally two to three weeks after testing you come back for a feedback session, where your psychologist explains the diagnosis clearly and lays out individualized recommendations: reading intervention strategies, academic accommodations, and assistive technology options fitted to your circumstances.
No. You do not ever need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. Reach out to us directly for any reason, and we will coordinate with the school only if you would like us to.
Academic learning disorders require specialized testing. Your psychologist handles the cognitive and executive function baseline and the wider clinical picture, while an inhouse learning disability specialist carries out the academic testing, and both clinicians attend the feedback session.
We assess reading disabilities like dyslexia, writing disabilities like dysgraphia, and math disabilities like dyscalculia, along with the cognitive and attention factors that influence how someone learns.
Yes. We evaluate children, teens, and adults. Many adults come in for testing once the demands of school or work finally exceed the workarounds they have relied on over the years.
Yes. The written report captures specific findings and recommendations that schools, colleges, and employers can use, including support for an IEP, a 504 plan, and testing accommodations.
Call us at (414) 387-2100 and we will go over your concerns and set up the first appointment. There is nothing you need to arrange in advance.
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