During my ADHD evaluation, my psychologist said something that stopped me cold. She reframed what I had just told her. Not summarized. Reframed. The words she wrote down were not the words I said.
And I didn't know, in that moment, whether that was a clinical interpretation or a mistake. I didn't know enough about what she was doing to tell the difference. That asymmetry is the problem this course solves.
Evaluators are trained on these instruments. You are not. They know what each question is looking for. You are just answering honestly, trusting your answers will be interpreted correctly. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they aren't. This course gives you the understanding to tell which.
Not one test. A battery of instruments.
Understand what each question measures
The open-source instruments used in most evaluations are publicly available, with published scoring criteria and documented patterns of misuse. When you understand what a questionnaire is trying to measure, you can answer based on what it's looking for, not just what it literally says.
Recognize a misinterpretation in the room
You can recognize in real time when an evaluator interprets your answer in a way that doesn't match what you said, and push back with language that works.
Know when screening becomes gatekeeping
Most evaluations screen for anxiety, depression, autism, trauma, and more. That's appropriate. Using a differential diagnosis instrument to redirect you away from an ADHD evaluation without clinical justification is not. The course covers how to tell the difference.
Build the case on the instrument itself
Evaluators vary in competence; it's documented. If a result is wrong, you can point to specific questions, scoring criteria, and interpretive standards the evaluator did not meet.
A wrong result follows you.
A wrong evaluation result doesn't just mean you don't get a diagnosis. It means you don't get treatment, you're told the problem is something else, and you spend years pursuing the wrong explanation.
It means the next evaluator sees the first result in your records and starts from skepticism before you've said a word. Or it means you give up, and the patterns that brought you there keep compounding without a name.
An ADHD evaluation is not a routine medical test. It is a high-stakes clinical judgment that shapes the trajectory of your care. You deserve to understand the process you're being put through.
What you'll leave with.
Built for adults being evaluated for ADHD.
This course works anywhere in the world; the open-source instruments are used across the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, and Europe. It is for adults only. A separate course covering pediatric evaluations is in development.
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Pre-sale pricing for the first 50 students, the lowest this course will ever be.
First 50 pre-sale students. Single tier only: course plus AI tools. I am not a doctor or an attorney; nothing in this course constitutes medical or legal advice.
Full refund available within 14 days of purchase, provided you have not viewed past the first 7 lessons. After 14 days, or once you view beyond the first 7 lessons, whichever comes first, all sales are final.
Navigating Kaiser? You may need both.
This course pairs with Kaiser Adult ADHD Navigation. That course gets you to the evaluation. This one makes sure the evaluation goes right.