ADHD testing and evaluations for children and teens
The school has called again. Or the homework that should take twenty minutes takes two hours. Or your kid is bright and kind and cannot seem to get out the door with both shoes on, and you are tired of being the person who nags.
A full evaluation, not a rating scale and a short appointment. Reports schools and prescribers can use.
Somebody has probably already said the word ADHD to you. Maybe a teacher, maybe a pediatrician, maybe the internet at eleven at night.
ADHD is misdiagnosed often, in both directions. A full evaluation looks at your child in the context of their actual life, including what else is going on at home and at school, and what else could produce the behavior you are seeing. Anxiety looks like distraction. So does a learning disorder. So does not sleeping.
Doing the full evaluation once means less time cycling through treatments that were never going to work, and more time on the one that does.
What parents usually notice first
- Homework that takes far longer than it should
- Losing things, forgetting instructions, starting tasks and drifting off them
- Trouble sitting still, or trouble staying with something boring
- Big reactions to small frustrations
- Teachers describing a completely different child than the one you see at home
What the evaluation includes
- Comprehensive intelligence testing
- Comprehensive memory testing
- Screening of academic achievement in all 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 detailed written report with the findings, a diagnosis if there is one, and specific recommendations for home, for school, and for treatment.
That report is what a school district needs in order to put supports in place, and what a prescriber wants if medication becomes part of the conversation.
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.