• Inattention: The child is easily distracted, forgets instructions, flits from task to task, best with one-to-one supervision

  • Impulsivity: The child speaks and acts without thinking and has a short fuse.

  • Overactivity: The child is restless, fidgety, and has 'rump hyperactivity.'

  • Insatiability: The child is never satisfied, nags, never lets a matter drop.

  • Social clumsiness: The child is 'out of tune' socially, acts silly in a crowd, misreads social cues.

  • Poor co-ordination: The child is clumsy, has poor flow of movement, has difficulty doing two actions at the one time.

  • Disorganisation: The child is blind to mess, is compelled to touch everything, problems structuring work.

  • Variability: The child suffers from mood swings, and has good and bad days to the extreme.

  • Specific learning disabilities: Examples are: dyslexia, language problems, difficulties with mathematics.