When Their Ability and Their Performance Don’t Add Up
The bright kid who can’t get started. The reader who finishes the page and can’t tell you what it said. The adult who used to be sharp and now loses the thread halfway through a meeting.
The ability is there. Something between the ability and the performance is not.
A neuropsychological evaluation finds out what, and where.
What a Neuropsychological Evaluation Is
A neuropsychological evaluation is a detailed map of brain-based functioning: how a person attends, remembers, reasons, processes, and organizes. It measures the specific cognitive systems that observation cannot isolate and that a report card only hints at.
This is the difference between “he’s not trying” and “his working memory can’t hold the instruction long enough to follow it.” One is a judgment. The other is information you can build a plan on.
What It Looks At
A full evaluation may assess neurocognitive and intellectual functioning, memory and learning, attention and executive function, processing speed, reasoning, language, sensorimotor, visuoperceptual, and visual-spatial functioning.
Neuropsychological Evaluations
A comprehensive profile of how the brain is working across every major domain.
ADHD & Executive Function Evaluations
Attention, working memory, response inhibition, cognitive flexibility, planning, task initiation, and emotional control.
Psychoeducational Testing
Learning differences and cognitive strengths, to document and inform school accommodations.
Neurodevelopmental Evaluations
Assessment for autism (ASD) and related developmental differences.
Who It’s For
Families trying to sort ADHD from anxiety from a learning difference, when all three can look the same from the outside. Students who need documented support and accommodations. Adults facing a change in focus, memory, or thinking they can’t account for.
What You Walk Away With
A precise profile of strengths and vulnerabilities. A clear answer to the question that brought you in. And recommendations aimed at the actual mechanism rather than the surface behavior, so the intervention lands where it will actually work.
Contact purepsych to schedule a consultation.
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