Your Evaluation Journey

At Lifespan Assessment Services, LLC, we strive to make the diagnostic process smooth, transparent, and thoroughly supportive. Because our sole focus is comprehensive evaluation, every step of your journey is structured to deliver accurate, objective answers without unnecessary delays.

  • Your first session is a dedicated intake consultation. During this visit, we discuss your primary areas of concern, review the Primary Care Physician (PCP) referral, and go over prior medical or school records. We establish the complete scope of testing, determine the estimated number of testing visits needed, outline the Plan of Care, and provide a clear Good Faith Estimate (GFE).

  • Depending on the client's age, attention stamina, and the complexity of concerns (e.g., speech-language, nonverbal cognitive, or multi-system neuro-developmental profiling), total testing time ranges between 1.5 and 8 hours. Testing is often broken down into manageable 45- to 120-minute appointments booked across multiple days to prevent fatigue and ensure optimal performance.

  • Following testing completion, all standardized test batteries are scored, cross-analyzed, and integrated into a comprehensive diagnostic report. Final reports—complete with baseline metrics, ICD-10 diagnostic codes, and tailored treatment recommendations—are emailed directly to the patient/caregiver and faxed to the referring PCP within 4 weeks of your final testing session.

Insurance, Billing & Self-Pay Options

  • Insurance Billing Process
    To streamline coverage, your insurance carrier is billed once the entire evaluation process is finalized.

  • Patient Copays & Deductibles
    Patient copayments, coinsurance, or deductible amounts are collected after insurance claims have been fully processed by your payer (typically 4 to 6 weeks after claim submission).

  • Self-Pay / Cash Rates
    For self-pay clients or services not covered by insurance, our transparent cash rate is:

    • $90.00 per 30-minute block (applies to direct clinical assessment time, psychometric scoring, data analysis, and diagnostic report writing).

Actionable Recommendations & Multi-Disciplinary Care Partnerships

From Testing to Action: Your Tailored Care Plan


A diagnostic evaluation is only as valuable as the path forward it provides. At Lifespan Assessment Services, LLC, our final diagnostic reports do not just deliver raw scores and diagnosis codes—they provide clear, evidence-based recommendations mapped directly to your or your child’s unique profile.

While our scope of practice focuses on speech, language, cognitive-communication, swallowing/feeding, and auditory processing diagnostics, a thorough evaluation often reveals underlying needs that cross into adjacent medical and therapeutic disciplines.

Our Multi-Disciplinary Referral Network

  • Following your evaluation, we collaborate directly with your Primary Care Physician (PCP) and leverage our established regional partnerships to connect you with specialized, trusted providers across Northern Colorado, including:

    • Occupational Therapy (OT): For sensory integration, fine motor bottlenecks, executive function strategies, visual-motor integration, and daily living skills.

    • Physical Therapy (PT): For gross motor delays, postural stability, tone abnormalities, and mobility support.

    • Registered Dietitians & Feeding Specialists (RD): For nutritional support, selective eating, sensory-based feeding aversions, and growth monitoring.

    • Optometry & Behavioral Vision Care (OD): For specialized vision therapy addressing visual convergence insufficiency, tracking deficits, and visual-perceptual bottlenecks.

    • Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) & Behavioral Health: For positive behavior support plans, emotional regulation, and adaptive skill development.

    • Pediatric & Adult Mental Health Counselors: For co-occurring anxiety, coping strategies, and family support systems.

    • Audiology & Aural Rehabilitation: For comprehensive hearing evaluations and Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) management.
      Connecting the Dots for Your Care Team
      "We do not leave families to navigate next steps alone. Every final report includes clear, prioritized recommendations that your PCP, school team (for IEP/504 planning), or community therapy clinic can immediately use to initiate targeted, covered care."

When a Clinical Psychologist or Psychiatrist is the Recommended Starting Point


At Lifespan Assessment Services, LLC, our evaluations focus strictly on speech, language, nonverbal cognitive processing, executive functioning, adaptive skills, motor speech, feeding/swallowing, and neuro-developmental profiling.
To ensure every individual receives the most accurate, medically appropriate care, certain clinical concerns fall outside our diagnostic scope. In these instances, an initial evaluation by a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist, or Psychiatrist is required or recommended prior to or in place of our testing services.

Clinical Scope & Deferred Evaluations

Primary Conditions & Complexities Deferred to Psychology/Psychiatry

  • Significant Trauma, Physical/Emotional Abuse, or Neglect: Complex trauma history requiring specialized trauma-informed psychological testing, differential PTSD assessment, or attachment disorder evaluations.

  • Mood & Affective Disorders: Primary concerns for Anxiety, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar I/II Disorders, or severe mood dysregulation.

  • Personality Disorders: Diagnostic queries involving Borderline, Narcissistic, Antisocial, or other personality cluster dynamics.

  • Psychosis, Neurochemical & Thought Disorders: Symptoms involving hallucinations, delusions, active paranoia, or underlying neurochemical thought disruptions (e.g., Schizophrenia Spectrum).

  • Substance Use & Chemical Dependency: Active substance use disorders requiring primary addiction medicine or behavioral health stabilization prior to cognitive testing.

  • Primary Forensic, Custody, or Medico-Legal Disputes: Parental fitness evaluations, court-ordered custody assessment batteries, or primary criminal forensic profiling.

  • Active Psychiatric Crises: High-risk self-harm, active suicidal/homicidal ideation, or acute psychiatric instability requiring emergency intervention or inpatient care.

  • If during our initial intake consultation or record review we determine that the primary concerns are better addressed by a clinical psychologist, neuropsychologist, or psychiatrist, we will:

  1. Provide Immediate Clarity: Explain directly why a psychological or psychiatric evaluation is the most medically appropriate starting point.

  2. Coordinate with Your PCP: Furnish your Primary Care Physician with our intake notes so they can issue a direct referral to a qualified regional psychologist or health system.

  3. Offer Collaborative Testing Later: Remain available to complete speech-language, processing, or nonverbal cognitive batteries in collaboration with your treating psychologist once primary psychological stabilization or baseline testing is established.

How We Assist with Referrals

Independent SLP Diagnostic Scope

Within our licensed scope of practice and clinical expertise, Speech-Language Pathologists independently evaluate, render formal ICD-10 diagnoses for, and establish clinical plans of care for:

  • Speech-Sound & Motor Speech Disorders: Articulation Disorders, Phonological Processing Disorders, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), Dysarthria, and Fluency Disorders (Stuttering).

  • Spoken & Written Language Disorders: Receptive and Expressive Language Disorders, Language Delays, Pragmatic/Social Language Impairments, and Dyslexia / Literacy-Based Symbolic Dysfunctions.

  • Cognitive-Communication & Processing Deficits: Cognitive-Linguistic Impairments, Working Memory Bottlenecks, Auditory Processing Impairments, and Visual-Spatial Processing Deficits.

  • Feeding, Swallowing & Oral-Motor Disorders: Dysphagia (Swallowing Dysfunction), Oral-Motor Deficits, and Sensory-Based Feeding Aversions. Important Note Regarding Dyslexia & Insurance Coverage: While Speech-Language Pathologists are fully qualified to assess and formally diagnose Dyslexia (ICD-10 R48.0 / Specific Learning Disorder in Reading), most commercial insurance plans and Medicaid do not consider Dyslexia testing alone to be a "medically necessary" benefit, classifying it as an educational/academic concern instead. When Dyslexia is evaluated alongside underlying receptive/expressive language, auditory processing, or cognitive-linguistic deficits, the medical necessity of the broader evaluation profile is established.

Multi-System Diagnoses Deferred to PCP for Final Eligibility

  • For complex neuro-developmental, behavioral, and medical conditions, our clinic administers gold-standard psychometric and observational batteries (e.g., ADOS-2, ADI-R, CARS-2, MIGDAS-2, BRIEF-2, Leiter-3, UNIT-2).


    While our assessment reports provide comprehensive, objective clinical data and diagnostic profiling, the formal medical diagnosis and eligibility finalization for the following conditions must be established by your Primary Care Physician (PCP), Developmental Pediatrician, Neurologist, or Clinical Psychologist:

    • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

    • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities (IDD)

    • Complex Neurodegenerative & Genetic Conditions

How We Work with Your PCP to Establish Eligibility

  1. Comprehensive Assessment: We complete the multi-system psychometric and observational testing required to evaluate the condition.

  2. Detailed Diagnostic Report: We generate an in-depth clinical report documenting standardized scores, observational findings, diagnostic criteria metrics (DSM-5 / ICD-10), and medical necessity justification.

  3. PCP Review: We fax the finalized evaluation directly to your PCP. Your physician reviews our clinical findings, incorporates them into your medical record, renders the official medical diagnosis, and issues the necessary medical orders for specialized community care.