Checklist

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ADHD/ADD Symptoms
Inventory Checklist.

ADHD/ADD Inventory Checklist

A person with ADHD/ADD typically has soft spots in specific skills. Those skills areas involve executive functioning, cognitive flexibility, language processing, emotional regulation and social interactions.
This checklist contains some of the typical characteristics
of someone experiencing ADHD or ADD.
Note: this checklist is a guide, not an objective assessment tool.

Executive Functioning
- Difficulty handling transitions and shifting to another task or mindset.
- Poor sense of time and difficulty doing things
in a logical or prescriber manner.
- Difficulty staying on a topic, sorting through
ideas and keeping track of things.
- Difficulty considering the likely outcomes of
his or her personal actions.
- Difficulty staying calm and collected to think
rationally under multiple stresses.

Cognitively Flexibility
- Concrete, black-and -white thinking, often
seeing or feeling things in extreme terms.
- Insistence on sticking with rules, routine and
an original plan, else becomes very anxious.
- Does poorly in circumstances which are
ambiguous or have no immediate solutions.
- Difficulty appreciating another person's
perspective or point of view.
- Doesn't take into account apparent facts that
warrant readjusting a plan of action.

Language Processing
- Often has difficulty expressing thoughts and
needs of concern in words in a measured way.
- Displays long delays in responding to questions
and may fidget or appear anxious.
- Often appears to not have understood what was
said and loses track of details and some words.
- Difficulty saying or knowing how he or she feels
and tends to use repetitive phrases or comments.

Emotional Regulation
-Can easily become cranky, grouchy, grumpy
or irritable beyond a source of typical stress.
- Often tends to be sad, tired, low in energy,
and appears removed from others.
- Frequently appears nervous, preoccupied and
avoidant of things which are pressing

Social Interactions
- Difficulty attending to or misreading social
cues and reacting with extreme skepticism.
- Inaccurate interpretations and/or distorted
or paranoid perceptions of social situations.
- Difficulty starting conversations or entering
a social group or connecting with people.
- Seems unaware of how their behavior is
affecting other people and is surprised by that.
- Displays weak empathy for others and appears
not to care how their behavior affects others.
- Poor sense of how he or she is coming across
to others even when openly hostile.