ADHD Testing
Whether you are a student or pursuing a challenging career, ADHD testing can be very helpful. Knowing the unique aspects of your diagnosis can help you tap into your strengths and overcome challenges. Further, it can reduce stress and anxiety because you and possibly those around you will understand yourself better. A comprehensive ADHD evaluation can uncover the pathways to your success. Our ADHD assessments can be given to adults, adolescents, and children. We also have specialties services for testing for ADHD in girls and women because symptoms often differ.
Benefits of ADHD Testing
An ADHD evaluation can lead to new insights and deeper understanding of your strengths, opportunities, and challenges.
Deepen Understanding
ADHD assessments go well beyond a diagnosis to help you understand the unique features of your cognitive style. This can bring new insight into how to magnify strengths and reduce challenges.
Reduce Stress
The better you understand your unique diagnosis, the more you can work with professors, colleagues, bosses, and people close to you to ensure you make the most of your time with them.
Coping Strategies
ADHD testing goes well beyond a diagnosis to help you understand the unique features of your cognitive style. This can bring new insight into how to magnify strengths and reduce challenges.
Measure Success
An ADHD evaluation can be repeated so that you can measure how accommodations and interventions are working. The results will help you decide what changes are working, and which ones need tweaking.
ADHD Testing Instruments
Intelligence Tests
We will likely do an IQ test to determine your cognitive strengths and weaknesses and whether there are signs that symptoms of an attention deficit is interfering with your achievement at work or school. We might also do specific tests of memory and concentration.
Surevys
Your ADHD evaluation will start with comprehensive surveys that describe your symptoms and trace them back as far as you can remember. Sometimes it can be helpful to ask your parents or others to help with this to cover areas you may not remember.
Specific Add-Ons
Once we’ve taken the first two steps, we will add other measures such as the Stroop Test to ensure we cover all the areas you’d like. We might add tests to help you in your job, at home, or in school. We can explore specific strengths and challenges further,
ADHD Testing Quick Overview
Psychological testing for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is essential in identifying and diagnosing this neurodevelopmental challenge. Typically, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is characterized by persistent patterns of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that significantly impact an individual’s daily functioning and overall well-being.
ADHD Testing in Our Practice
Our testing process starts with a comprehensive interview to discuss your thoughts, behavior, medical history, and symptoms. We then move into rating scales, cognitive tests, and specific tasks that can evaluate the presence and severity of symptoms. Our goal will be to provide uniquely tailored treatment strategies and support plans.
We also provide neuropsychological testing when you want to go deeper as far as the exploration of the causes and effects of your or your child’s diagnosis.
Our reports don’t just focus on challenges and barriers but also some of the benefits of having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
FAQ
Here are some questions you may have about ADHD Assessments.
You can always contact us or schedule a consultation to get more information.
How Long Will ADHD Testing Take?
ADHD testing can often be done in one two-hour testing session, particularly if you are comfortable doing some of the inventories on your own time at home. There is also a one-hour feedback session after the results are in.
Will the Results Suggest Certain Accommodations for Work or School?
Yes, ADHD assessments can suggest specific accommodations and interventions that will help you meet you potential and perform as well as you can at work and school.
When Will the ADHD Evaluation Report be Ready?
We try to produce a draft psychological testing report around 1-2 weeks from the completion of testing. Then we will meet to ensure it answers your questions. A final ADHD evaluation report will be produced around a week later.
Can ADHD Testing be Combined with other Tests and Assessments?
Yes, we often combine these evaluations with other tests assessments such as Personality evaluation. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is often done as part of ADHD assessments as well.
Final thoughts
Reasons to Get an ADHD Evaluation
Our ADHD assessments are conducted for various reasons, tailored to our clients’ circumstances. Here are some common reasons:
1. Diagnosis and Treatment Planning: ADHD assessments can help determine if an individual has the diagnosis and, if so, to plan appropriate treatment strategies, which may include medication, therapy, or lifestyle changes.
2. Academic and Occupational Performance: They can also be used to understand difficulties in academic or work settings and to provide accommodations or interventions that can help improve performance. We can also poiunt out some of the benefits of ADHD.
3. Behavioral Issues: For children, these services can assess the cause of behavioral problems and to implement strategies to manage symptoms such as impulsivity, hyperactivity, or inattentiveness.
4. Mental Health: An ADHD evaluation can evaluate co-occurring mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression, or learning disabilities, that often accompany the diagnosis.
5. Family and Social Relationships: The psychological report often addresses the impact of symptoms on relationships with family members, friends, and colleagues, and to provide support and coping mechanisms.
6. Self-Understanding and Personal Growth: These evaluations help individuals understand their own behavior and cognitive patterns, leading to greater self-awareness and personal development.
7. Historical or Retrospective Diagnosis: Some people come in suspecting they may have had an attention deficit since childhood but were never diagnosed, providing clarity and potentially guiding interventions that can improve quality of life.
These assessments are comprehensive, often involving multiple methods such as interviews, questionnaires, behavioral observations, and standardized tests to ensure a thorough understanding of our client’s condition.
Contact Us With Questions!
We’d be happy to talk to you more about how testing can benefit you or your child, and what the evaluations will entail.