ADD / ADHD Traits Discovery Questionnaire
How it Works:
Answer 34 simple 'Yes/No' questions
in 5 to 7 minutes
And discover 3 things that could help you support your child, yourself and your family more effectively
The ADD/ADHD 7 Traits Questionnaire helps you identify which brain-based patterns may be contributing to focus, mood, behaviour, anxiety, energy, learning, motivation, emotional regulation, or daily life struggles.
It does not diagnose you or your child just gives insight.
It helps you see where support may be needed first.
You’ll receive scores on the following
7 ADD / ADHD Trait Patterns
Type 1:
Active Under-Focus Pattern
Young people and adults who may be distractible, impulsive, restless, disorganised, and struggle to stay engaged when concentration is required.
Type 2:
Quiet Under-Focus Pattern
Young people and adults who may seem calm or quiet, but struggle with daydreaming, procrastination, low motivation, short attention span, or mental follow-through.
Type 3:
Stuck Attention Pattern
Young people and adults who may struggle with focus while also getting stuck in thoughts, worries, arguments, routines, or repeated behaviours.
Type 4:
Reactive Learning & Memory Pattern
Young people and adults whose focus struggles may sit alongside learning, memory, anger, aggression, emotional reactivity, or defensive thinking.
Type 5:
Low Mood Focus Pattern
Young people and adults whose focus, energy, motivation, and confidence may be affected by ongoing low mood, guilt, helplessness, or low self-esteem.
Type 6:
Sensitive Overactivation Pattern
Young people and adults who may feel overstimulated, intense, unpredictable, anxious, fearful, or highly sensitive to noise, light, touch, or busy environments.
Type 7:
Anxious Focus Pattern
Young people and adults whose focus and performance may be affected by anxiety, tension, stress symptoms, worst-case thinking, or freezing under pressure.
Discovering Which ADD / ADHD Trait Patterns Are Driving How A Person Experiences Daily Life - Can Support Real Life-Change
We will help you to measure and improve 3 key areas:
1.Measure:
What may be driving the struggles you are seeing
Your child’s behaviour is information.
The question is: what is it pointing to?
This assessment helps identify which of the 7 ADD / ADHD Trait Patterns may be most relevant for your child right now.
These patterns may help explain why your child struggles with things like:
- Focus
- Impulsivity
- Hyperactivity
- Daydreaming
- Procrastination
- Emotional outbursts
- Anxiety
- Low mood
- Sensory overwhelm
- Rigid thinking
- Learning or memory
- Motivation
- Freezing under pressure
Instead of simply asking, “How do we stop the behaviour?” this assessment helps ask a better question:
What support might this brain and nervous system need?
2. Improve:
Identify simple early support strategies that may help reduce daily struggle
Many parents know that food, nutrients, stress, sleep, and the nervous system can affect a child’s mood and behaviour.
But knowing that something might matter is not the same as knowing where to start.
That is where many of us get stuck.
Food changes can feel big.
Supplement choices can feel confusing.
Behaviour strategies may not work if the child is already overwhelmed. And when everyone is tired, even small changes can feel impossible.
This assessment helps point toward the ADD / ADHD Trait Pattern Protocols that may be most relevant.
These may include targeted support across areas such as:
- Amino acids
- Nutrients and supplements
- Food and nutrition
- Movement
- Sleep and lifestyle
- Emotional regulation
- Sensory support
- Neurofeedback or therapeutic input
- Practitioner-guided medication discussions, where appropriate
For many families, the first helpful step is not trying to change everything at once.
It is identifying the highest-priority support pathway and beginning there.
3. Know:
Know where to start and what to do next
One of the biggest problems is not lack of effort.
It is lack of a clear pathway.
You may have a long list of concerns, but no simple order of action.
This discovery questionnaire gives you:
- Your Top 3 Priority Patterns
- A visual summary of all 7 ADD / ADHD Trait Pattern scores
- A priority level for each pattern
- A clear 4-step action plan
- Guidance on how to connect these results with Mood-Helper / Mood Neurotransmitter-Pathways support
The aim is to help you move from:
“I don’t know what to do.”
To:
“Now I know where to begin.”
Why nutrition, chemistry and targeted support matter
This discovery questionnaire is based on the idea that mood, behaviour, focus, anxiety, and emotional regulation are influenced by brain chemistry, nutrition, nervous system regulation, stress physiology, and individual biological needs.
Research does not suggest that every child responds to the same diet, supplement, or intervention. It does suggest that for some children, nutritional and dietary approaches can make a meaningful difference.
For example, reviews of ADHD nutrition research have reported that around 60% of children may respond to few-foods (or oligoantigenic) diet approaches, with response often defined as a notable reduction in ADHD symptoms.
Other research has reported that supplemental micronutrients showed global benefit over placebo in children with ADHD and irritability, with 54% of participants in the micronutrient group rated as treatment responders compared with 18% in the placebo group.
This does not mean food or supplements are the answer for every child.
It means they may be part of the answer for some children — especially when the approach is personalised, carefully introduced, and guided by a suitably qualified professional.
The key is not guessing.
The key is identifying the most likely support pathway and starting in a sensible order.
Background
The ADD / ADHD Trait Patterns questionnaire draws on the functional brain-pattern approach developed from Dr Daniel Amen’s work around different attention and behaviour presentations.
However, this assessment is not presented as an ADD / ADHD diagnostic tool.
Instead, it uses broader, parent-friendly language to help identify patterns that may affect:
- Focus
- Mood
- Behaviour
- Anxiety
- Sensory sensitivity
- Learning
- Motivation
- Emotional regulation
- Family life
- School life
The goal is not to give your child a label.
The goal is to help you better understand what kind of support may help.
