A Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Evaluation, From Your Living Room
The teacher emails that keep using the word “focus.” The homework that takes three hours and four battles. The bright kid whose grades don’t match what you know is in there. The teen who loses everything, starts everything, finishes almost nothing, and is beginning to believe the problem is who she is, not how her brain works.
If you’ve been putting off an ADHD evaluation because the nearest specialist is booked out four months and forty minutes away, here’s the good news: for most kids and teens, a complete, clinically rigorous ADHD evaluation can now be done entirely online, and done well.
Little Dove Psychology is a small group practice. Your comprehensive evaluation is performed by our neuropsychologist, Dr. Kiersten Sippio, and our team provides therapy and ongoing support alongside it. Meet our team →
This is not a quick screener. It is a full, comprehensive battery, and every evaluation is tailored to the presenting needs and concerns of your child, never one size fits all. It looks at the whole picture of how they think, learn, and feel, held to the same standards as an in-person evaluation:
If your family has Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, or Optum (UnitedHealthcare), your child’s comprehensive ADHD evaluation is billed to your plan, and you pay your copay or cost share instead of our $1,750 self-pay rate. The same goes for autism evaluations and combined ADHD and autism evaluations, and Oscar Health plans are in network too. Before anything is scheduled, we check your benefits, handle any prior authorization your plan requires, and tell you the expected cost in plain numbers. Evaluations are for children, teens, and adults ages 6 through 55 who are located in Texas, and appointments are typically available within a week. Plan details: Aetna, BCBS of Texas, and Optum and UnitedHealthcare.
Remote test administration is supported by a 2017 meta-analysis in Neuropsychology Review showing small, mostly non-significant differences from in-person testing, and by the 2020 InterOrganizational Practice Committee guidance on teleneuropsychology that we follow; timed and motor-dependent measures are the exception, and we do not administer them, so a Full Scale IQ is not part of our evaluations. The evaluation page has the citations and the full scope.
Because testing is fully virtual, we are clear from the start about exactly what that model can assess and where an in-person component would be needed. We will always tell you what your child’s evaluation can and cannot include before you begin.
If in-person testing or a facilitator becomes available, the battery and the areas we can assess will expand.
Here is something most virtual ADHD services will not tell you: who does the testing matters as much as which tests they run.
A licensed psychologist is qualified to evaluate and treat. A neuropsychologist is a psychologist who then completed an additional two years of specialized training in one thing: how the brain shapes attention, memory, learning, and behavior, and how to measure it. That is exactly the expertise a comprehensive evaluation calls for, and at Little Dove, your evaluation is performed by a neuropsychologist.
It is the same reason you would want a specialist reading a complex scan. The person interpreting the results changes what those results can tell you.
A $200 online ADHD test and a comprehensive evaluation answer two different questions. The first asks: do your answers on a questionnaire look like ADHD? The second asks: what is actually going on with this specific child, and what should we do about it?
Fast screeners do have a place: they can tell you whether a full evaluation is worth pursuing. Our free 15-minute consult answers that same question at no cost, with a person on the other end.
A good evaluation isn’t just a yes-or-no answer: it’s a roadmap.
Here is what the process looks like, from your first call to your feedback session.
A free 15-minute consultation. A brief conversation to confirm a comprehensive virtual evaluation is right for your child’s age and needs.
Intake appointment. We meet with you, gather your child’s full history, and confirm the evaluation plan together.
Testing, report, and answers. Testing sessions from home, with your written report and feedback session about two to three weeks after testing. Your first appointment is typically available within one week of your call.
Because the entire evaluation is online, it works the same wherever your family lives: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Plano, Frisco, Southlake, and everywhere in between.
Want the deeper dive on how remote testing compares to in-person, and what it costs? We wrote about it: Online ADHD Testing in Austin: How It Works & What It Costs.
New to this? These short guides answer the questions parents ask us most:
Yes, when it is done to the same standard as an in-person evaluation. Our virtual ADHD evaluations include a comprehensive diagnostic interview, standardized rating scales completed by both parents and teachers, screening for conditions that mimic ADHD, and objective, standardized performance testing. Telehealth evaluations are held to the same standard of care as in-person care, and remote ADHD assessment of children is supported by peer-reviewed research and European clinical guidelines.
Both. Alongside the interview and parent and teacher rating scales, your child completes standardized, performance-based tests of attention, memory, processing, and thinking. That means the evaluation rests on direct, objective data, not questionnaires alone. No single test diagnoses anything by itself; each one is a piece of the full picture.
We evaluate ages 6 through 55, adults included. This page covers children, teens, and college students; adults are seen through our adult ADHD evaluation. For children under 6, virtual testing tools are not validated, so we will point you toward an appropriate developmental evaluation instead.
Evaluation appointments are typically available within one week of your first call. From there the process moves through an intake interview with you and your child, online questionnaires completed by parents and teachers, and the objective testing session, and your written report and feedback session follow about two to three weeks after testing.
No. Evaluation appointments are typically available within one week of your first call, with evening and weekend options. Waitlists for pediatric ADHD testing elsewhere often run several months, which is one of the reasons families across Texas choose a virtual evaluation.
No. As psychologists, we provide evaluation and therapy, not medication. If the results support a medication conversation, we coordinate directly with your child’s pediatrician or a psychiatrist, and our report gives the prescriber the data they need to make a good decision.
Yes. The report is written with schools in mind: standardized data plus specific recommended accommodations, so your school team can build or refine a 504 plan or IEP on solid footing. The same documentation supports extended-time requests for the SAT and ACT and college disability services.
That is a valuable answer too. Anxiety, sleep problems, and depression often masquerade as ADHD. Because our evaluation is comprehensive, we look at those possibilities as part of the same process, so either way you leave with a clear explanation and a plan for what helps.
Most low-cost online ADHD services rely on questionnaires reviewed remotely, without objective testing or a clinician who meets your child. Our evaluation is performed by a neuropsychologist and includes a diagnostic interview, parent and teacher rating scales, and standardized performance testing, and it screens for the conditions that mimic ADHD, like anxiety and learning differences. That difference matters most when the results need to count: school teams and college disability offices generally require comprehensive documentation from a licensed psychologist for 504 plans, IEPs, and extended-time accommodations.
A comprehensive ADHD evaluation is $1,750, which includes the diagnostic interview, parent and teacher rating scales, objective performance testing, an individualized written report, and a live feedback session. That is the self-pay rate. For members of our in-network plans, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Optum (UnitedHealthcare), and Oscar Health, the evaluation is billed to insurance instead. Evaluations are HSA and FSA eligible, and we provide a superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement. We confirm all costs during your free 15-minute consultation, so you have the complete picture before you decide anything.
Little Dove Psychology is in network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Optum (UnitedHealthcare), and Oscar Health. For members of those plans, evaluations are billed to insurance. We verify your specific benefits before scheduling and tell you what you will owe. For self-pay families, we provide a superbill you can submit to your insurance for possible out-of-network reimbursement, and many families with PPO plans recover a meaningful portion. Academic achievement testing conducted specifically to evaluate a learning disorder is generally not covered by medical insurance and is offered separately as a private-pay service. We will walk through fees during your free consultation.
Skills-based therapy tailored to your child: executive function and organization skills, CBT for the frustration and self-esteem hits that ride along with ADHD, DBT-informed emotion regulation work, and parent coaching so home routines support the skills. We coordinate with your child’s school, and because our testing is repeatable, we can re-test later to show whether treatment is working.
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“I can’t recommend Dr. Kristin Kroll at Little Dove Psychology highly enough. She is extremely knowledgeable and brings years of experience to every session… What really sets her apart is how much heart she puts into her clients. You can tell she genuinely cares and is invested in helping you.”
- William Jackson, Google review
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