ADHD testing and evaluations for adults
You lose your keys and find them somewhere strange. Every January the resolution is to get organized. You have bought planners you never opened. You start three things and finish none of them, and the list of half-done tasks follows you around. You set three alarms in three spots in the room. You are the last one at pickup, and your family has stopped being surprised by it.
Attention, executive functioning and memory. Reports that meet graduate school testing board requirements.
Have you always wondered why you cannot seem to get it together?
Being told since childhood to try harder, or to stop being lazy, leaves a mark. A lot of adults carry real shame about this, and most of them are convinced everybody else got a manual they never received.
Doctors used to think ADHD ended in childhood. It does not. For some people it does not even become obvious until adulthood, when the demands of life outgrow the systems that used to hold it together.
What adults usually notice first
- Losing things, missing deadlines, being chronically late
- Starting more than you finish
- Trouble holding a job, or avoiding promotions and new responsibility in case you fail
- Conflict in relationships that keeps circling back to the same complaints
- A brain that will not slow down, and anxiety sitting on top of all of it
What the evaluation includes
ADHD is over-diagnosed and under-diagnosed at the same time, usually in different people. So we look at what is actually going on rather than matching you to a checklist. Attention problems can come from ADHD, and they can also come from anxiety, depression, sleep, trauma, or a learning disorder nobody caught.
- Comprehensive intelligence testing
- Comprehensive memory testing
- Screening of academic achievement across academic areas
- Assessment of executive functioning and attention
- Behavioral, emotional and social assessment
What happens after
You come back in and we go through the results together. You get a full written report with the findings, a diagnosis if there is one, and specific recommendations, including what to bring to a prescriber if medication is part of the conversation.
If you are applying to graduate school, that report is also what a testing board wants to see. Most of them require testing completed within the last three to five years.
Cost and insurance
Testing is $175 per hour. Most full evaluations land between $1,200 and $3,500 depending on what questions we are answering. We do accept some insurance for testing, and we will verify your benefits and tell you what to expect before we begin.
See our full insurance and fee information.
Where we do testing
Testing happens in person at our Woodlands office on Sawdust Road. That is the only location doing testing right now, and most evaluations are finished there in a single day.
The intake, the interviews and the feedback session can all be done virtually, so the in-person part is the testing itself.
We can only evaluate people who live in Texas.
When to call
Timing matters more than people expect. Call volume climbs at the end of the calendar year and again at the end of the school year, which are exactly the times families realize they need a report. If you know testing is coming, calling ahead of those windows is the difference between having the report when you need it and waiting for it.
Request a free consultation and we will tell you what the process looks like for your situation.