1. Often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes.
2. Often has difficulty sustaining attention.
3. Often does not listen.
4. Often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish school work, chores, duties.
5. Often has difficulties organizing tasks and activities.
6. Often avoids or strongly dislikes tasks that require sustained mental effort.
7. Often loses things necessary for tasks for activities (school assignments, pencils, books, tools).
8. Often easily distracted by extraneous stimuli.
9. Often forgetful in daily activities.

Hyperactivity-Impulsivity (at least 6 for 6 months and maladaptive)

HYPERACTIVITY

1. Often fidgets with hands and feet or squirms.
2. Often leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which expected to remain seated.
3. Often runs about or climbs excessively where inappropriate (in adults, adolescents-limited to restless feelings).
4. Often has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly.
5. Often on the go and acts like driven by a motor.
6. Often talks excessively.

1. Often blurts out answers.
2. Often has difficulty awaiting turn.
3. Often interrupts or intrudes on others.

Combined (6 symptoms of both inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity persistent for 6 months)

1. Some symptoms present before age 7.
2. Symptoms present in two or more situations.
3. Cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, academic, or occupational functions.
4. Not exclusively during PDD, psychotic disorders, and not accounted for by mood disorders, anxiety, stress, adjustment, personality disorders, school problems, and cultural and socio-economic differences.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

1. Loses temper.
2. Argues with adults.
3. Actively defies or refuses adult requests.
4. Deliberately does things that annoy other people.
5. Blames others for mistakes.
6. Touchy, easily annoyed.
7. Angry, resentful.
8. Spiteful and vindictive.