How to Secure DRC ADHD Accommodations at Purdue

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• The Core Rule: A diagnosis alone is not enough. The Purdue Disability Resource Center (DRC) requires formal, third-party qualified healthcare clinical documentation to approve reasonable accommodations.
  
• DRC Criteria: Your documentation must go beyond simply naming “ADHD.” It must clearly describe:
  
  1. The specific clinical diagnosis.
  2. The functional impact and severity of your symptoms on academic performance.
  3. How those limitations create direct academic barriers in the Purdue environment.
     
• How We Help: At IN Focus First, Jessica Walsh provides the exact, scientifically validated psychiatric evaluations and detailed clinical documentation required by the DRC. Our comprehensive assessments map your executive function barriers directly to the accommodations you need to succeed.

Why Science-Rooted, Psychiatric Aligned Care Matters

• The IN Focus First Difference: We believe in clinical precision over rushed checkboxes. Led by board-certified psychiatric experts Jessica Walsh, PMHNP-BC and Dr Olaniyi Osuntokun, MD, our practice blends elite academic training and psychiatric expertise with compassionate care:
  
  • Elite Scientific Background: Jessica Walsh holds PhD level training in biomedical sciences alongside pharmacology from Indiana University School of Medicine, bringing expert pharmacological understanding to medication management.
    
  • ABPN Double Board-Certified Medical Direction: Dr Olaniyi Osuntokun, MD, is a double board-certified Psychiatrist, Neurologist, and Neuropsychiatrist.
    
  • Comprehensive Evaluations: We look beyond surface-level symptoms to explore how medical history, chronic insomina and sleep disruptions, anxiety, depression, and mood instability impact executive function.
    
  • Psychiatric Expertise: While we specialize in various ADHD presentations, we practice comprehenive psychiatry. This is specifically important since it is most common for ADHD to co-occur with at least one additional psychiatric diagnosis. Research suggests that untreated co-occurring conditions can make ADHD symptoms more severe and harder to address effectively. For patients in Lafayette who are also navigating mood challenges, our team also provides support for anxiety, bipolar disorder diagnosis, depression, sleep disorders, and trauma. The complete picture matters. Our team is specifically trained in providing comprehensive psychiatric evidence-based care to result in best outcome.
    
  • Active in Professional Communities: Jessica is a dedicated CHADD Member, ADDA Member, and Menopause Society Member, ensuring your care is aligned with the latest clinical research.
    
  • Rooted in Lafayette: We are a part of the Lafayette and West Lafayette community, working in tandem with local healthcare networks including admitting priviledges at Sycamore Springs Hospital.

Integrating with the Lafayette Mental Health Care Network

• Our Local Partners: When students require long-term community therapy or intensive specialized services beyond our outpatient scope, we guide them toward trusted local providers:
  
  • Modern Mental Health: A nonprofit group of psychologists and counselors in West Lafayette providing local therapy and waiting-list assessments.
    
  • Hendricks Therapy: Offers in-office therapy, medication management, and specialized computerized cognitive testing in Lafayette.
    
  • Sycamore Springs Hospital: For acute mental health crises, emergency evaluations, and intensive inpatient/outpatient behavioral health care, Lafayette’s dedicated psychiatric hospital is a vital local resource.
    
  • The Direct Clinical Bridge: Because our clinic’s Medical Director, Dr. Olaniyi Osuntokun, MD, also serves as the Medical Director of Sycamore Springs Hospital, our patients benefit from a highly coordinated, stress-free bridge between outpatient management and acute care if an emergency or severe psychiatric crisis happens.