Printable ADHD Checklist

The following ADHD checklist provides the symptoms and signs associated with ADHD. This checklist is not intended to diagnose your child, but should be able to provide you with a good starting point for determining whether your child should have further evaluation.

You may also want to consider looking at the symptoms of a sensory disorder. One category of sensory processing disorder is referred to as sensory modulation disorder. This category has a subtype called sensory seeking that has symptoms very similar to those of ADHD. You may even find that when seeing what seems to be symptoms of ADHD in toddlers, may actually simply be problems with sensory processing.

If using the ADHD checklist, talk to your child's pediatrician if your child has six or more of the symptoms listed at the top and/or six or more of the symptoms listed at the bottom in the often or very often category. Also, be sure to check out more information about sensory processing disorder as the two disorders can coexist with eachother. The ADHD Checklist is adapted from the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria⁽¹⁾.

Note: You must temporarily disable any pop up blockers to open the chart or hold down the CONTROL button while clicking on the chart.

You will need Adobe Reader (the latest version is recommended) installed on your computer in order to open and print the ADHD checklist. You can get Adobe Reader here (a new window will open so you can download it without leaving this page, but you will need to temporarily disable any pop up blockers to open the new window and the checklist).

If you want to open the file in your browser window, just click on the chart. However, if you want to download the file to view later, then right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As" or "Save File As." Then select where you want to save the file on your hard drive.

Once you have saved the file, locate where you saved it, and double click to open.

In order to print, open the downloaded file, and select the "Print" option.

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