Ages 4-22
ADHD Testing & Evaluation
Understanding how your child's brain operates — so they can be supported as exactly who they are.
ADHD testing is not about labeling your child or finding deficits. It is a comprehensive process used to understand how your child's brain operates, particularly in the areas of attention, impulse-control, sensory processing, and executive functioning.
From a neurodiversity-affirming perspective, ADHD is understood as a natural variation in brain wiring.
Testing helps clarify
understanding, not limitation.
The evaluation
A Comprehensive & Individualized Evaluation
The evaluation is designed to understand how your child’s brain operates and how their neurotype interacts with school, home, and social expectations. It may include assessment of areas such as:
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Intellectual & cognitive abilities
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Learning style
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Attention
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Impulse control
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Sensory processing
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Executive functioning
ADHD testing is a comprehensive process used to understand how your child’s brain operates across different areas of functioning. From a neurodiversity-affirming perspective, ADHD is understood as a natural variation in brain wiring.
All evaluations are tailored to the individual child.
Many neurodivergent individuals experience co-occurring mental health symptoms (e.g., anxiety, irritability), which are also assessed.
what families gain
From the evaluation, you will gain:
Strengths-Based Profile
How your child’s brain operates — including attention, learning style, and regulation — mapped with care.
Practical Recommendations
Concrete strategies to support attention, regulation, and functioning at school, home, and in daily life.
Space to Process
Room to ask questions and understand how your child’s neurotype interacts with everyday expectations.
ADHD is not a lack of attention — it’s a regulation difference. When tasks are meaningful, novel, or urgent, many individuals with ADHD show intense, sustained focus.
Many families report that the evaluation brings relief, language for advocacy, and a clearer path forward.
What to expect
A Steady, Supportive Process
I guide the process carefully and systematically from beginning to end.
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Consultation & Background Review
We begin with a comprehensive intake to discuss concerns, developmental history, and evaluation goals. I review relevant records to build a thorough foundation.
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Individualized Testing
Each evaluation is tailored to the referral questions. I personally select, administer, and score all measures based on evidence-based practice and clinical judgment.
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Careful Analysis & Interpretation
Results are carefully synthesized within the broader cognitive, academic, developmental, and emotional context. I examine patterns rather than relying on isolated scores.
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Comprehensive Report & Feedback
You receive a feedback session, often the same week as testing. Children get a personalized feedback session too. A detailed written report follows within two weeks.
A Note on Strengths
ADHD also comes with superpowers!
ADHD is not a lack of attention — it's a regulation difference. When tasks are meaningful, novel, or urgent, many individuals with ADHD show intense, sustained focus.
Fun Fact ✦
ADHDers generate more original, novel ideas.
People with ADHD often come up with ideas that are more original and unexpected. Instead of following one path, their thinking branches in many directions — which is where creativity really lives.
Ready to Learn more?
Start with a free consultation
A 15-minute call to talk through your questions, your child, and whether an evaluation might be a helpful next step.