For families and individuals looking for clearer answers
When learning feels harder than it should, a comprehensive evaluation can help make sense of what’s getting in the way. Abbey Weinstein, PhD, works with children, college students, and adults to understand attention, learning, and executive-functioning concerns, and to identify useful next steps.
For children, college students, and adults with questions about learning, attention, or accommodations.Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Virtual options may be available when appropriate.
What brings families and individuals here
Maybe homework has turned into a nightly standoff. Maybe ideas come easily out loud but disappear on paper. Maybe you can’t remember things you knew the day before, or you immediately forget what someone has just told you. The gap between what someone knows and what their work or test results show can be hard to explain.
Dr. Weinstein helps families and individuals understand how someone learns, where things are getting stuck, and what to do next.
Testing is paced with patience, breaks, and time to build comfort and rapport so each individual can settle in and show what they can do.
What an evaluation can help you do
Evaluations are shaped around the person in front of Abbey Weinstein, PhD, whether that means understanding a child’s school experience, helping a college student pursue accommodations, or clarifying an adult’s learning and attention profile.
For parents: understand why school feels difficult and what kinds of support may help. For college students and adults: clarify attention, learning, or executive-functioning concerns and identify support needs for college, graduate study, or demanding exams such as the MCAT or LSAT.
A comprehensive evaluation can examine dyslexia and other learning disabilities, attention and focus concerns, executive-functioning and processing difficulties, academic skills, and the need for accommodations.
Consultation can help families and individuals get a steadier read on existing paperwork, prepare for a meeting, and bring clearer questions and recommendations to the table.
Documentation may clarify support needs for school, college, or standardized testing when criteria are met.
How it works
Start with what you are noticing at home, school, college, or work, what has already been tried, and what questions the evaluation needs to answer.
Testing is shaped around the concerns and paced with care, including breaks, encouragement, and attention to how the child or adult is feeling in the room.
Walk through what the testing shows, what it may mean, and recommendations for support, including what to bring to conversations with school teams or other providers.
Client feedback
Stories from families, students, and adult clients.
“Our daughter needed updated diagnostic testing, and Dr. Abbey made her feel validated and comfortable. When we met to discuss the results, she was patient, made time for our questions, and helped us understand what came next. We highly recommend Dr. Abbey to other families.”
“Having our child evaluated for learning disabilities was one of the best decisions we made. Dr. Weinstein was thorough, patient, and took time to answer our questions. The evaluation gave us a clearer understanding of how our child learns, along with practical recommendations for school and home. We left feeling informed, reassured, and confident about the next steps.”
“Reading, attention, and staying focused at school had become difficult for our son, and we needed answers beyond knowing he was struggling. Dr. Weinstein made him feel comfortable and took time to understand his needs. We left with a clearer picture of how he learns and concrete strategies to help him move forward with confidence.”
Testing questions
You don’t need to know exactly what kind of evaluation you need before reaching out. These are some of the concerns that often come up.
Depending on the questions being asked, testing may look at cognitive processing, academic skills, attention, executive functioning, memory, processing speed, reading, writing, math, and how those areas interact.
Yes. Attention concerns can overlap with dyslexia, written-expression difficulties, math concerns, anxiety, working-memory challenges, or other learning disabilities. A comprehensive evaluation can help identify the primary source of the difficulties and help rule certain disabilities in or out.
That is part of working with children. Breaks, encouragement, movement needs, worry, fatigue, and frustration are handled with patience and considered as part of the picture. The goal is not to force a perfect testing day. The goal is to understand how your child thinks, works, and keeps going.
Assess for Success serves families and individuals across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW), including North Dallas suburbs such as Plano, Frisco, Allen, and McKinney. Abbey Weinstein, PhD, is nationally certified and can talk through virtual testing options when appropriate, including for college students who live outside the area.
Yes. Assess for Success works with college students and adults as well as children and teens. An evaluation may explore attention, executive functioning, learning disabilities, memory, processing, and academic skills. For students preparing for demanding programs or exams such as medical or law school, the process can help clarify concerns and document support needs when appropriate.
Testing can help parents ask clearer questions about school support, accommodations, IEP or 504 conversations, and what may be getting in the way of learning.
No. The first conversation can start with what you are noticing at home, what school has raised, or what still does not make sense. Dr. Weinstein can help you think through whether testing, consultation, a virtual option, or another next step fits.
About Assess for Success
Dr. Weinstein is a certified Educational Diagnostician serving families and adults across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW), including North Dallas suburbs such as Plano, Frisco, Allen, and McKinney. She is nationally certified and can talk through virtual testing options when appropriate, including for college students who live outside the area.
She brings more than 28 years in education and diagnostics, including public school diagnostic work, private evaluations, assessment leadership, and university-level teaching in special education.
Her work centers on the whole learner: what is hard, what is strong, and what may finally explain the gap between effort and outcome.
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A first conversation
Start with what you are noticing, whether it involves your child, your college experience, difficulty passing a career-advancement test, workplace difficulties, or your own learning. Abbey Weinstein, PhD, will help you decide whether an evaluation, consultation, virtual option, or another next step makes sense.
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