NOTE : All the presented documents are graciously offered by their authors. They are free to use. Please note that these questionnaires and other tools are specially built to be used and analysed by competent professionals.
WARNING! No questionnaire alone makes possible to come up with a diagnosis. These tools facilitate the information gathering process and then guide the procedure to target the problematics and the possible interventions. It is essential for the evaluation process to be done by a competent professional who knows ADHD well because many problematics can mimic its symptoms or be associated to it. In Quebec, you can refer yourself to law 21 about the types of health care professionals that are authorized for the assessment and intervention processes.
In some cases, your health practitioner could ask for a psychological, neuropsychological, speech therapy or occupational therapy evaluation. This is particularly important when a learning disorder, a psychological problematic, a speech disorder or dyspraxia is suspected.
CADDRA ADHD Practice Guidelines offers a full ADHD Toolkit for the assessment and follow-up: CADDRA ADHD Assessment Toolkit (CAAT)
The Clinique FOCUS’ team where Dr. Vincent works collected many information-gathering tools organized as information portfolios in which the content is categorized by age.
Suggested procedure
Many thanks to Dr Sandra Kooij and her team for their extraordinary Adult ADHD Evaluation Tool. DIVA 5.0 is a structured Diagnostic Interview for Adult ADHD, available in many languages.
We welcome American Psychiatric Publishing for the following evaluation scale: Wender-Utah.
Thanks to pediatrician Dr Pierre-Claude Poulin for the following work tools that were first produced in French and then translated in English:
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief behavioral questionnaire for 3-16 years old. It is available in differents languages and various versions depending on the clinical and research needs.
Comments by Dr. Margaret Weiss on the SDQ : This questionnaire is very useful for ADHD kids and has been translated into almost every language and available free of charge on the web. This includes the scoring program. It has been normed on 42,000 children. This questionnaire is widely used and includes ratings for emotional symptoms, conduct problems and other dimensions. It is short and easy to use.