Conners rating scales

The Conners forms ask how often your child does certain things, at home and at school. A parent answers one version and a teacher answers another, and the answers are compared. The current edition is called the Conners 4, and you may also hear about the Conners 3.

The results come back as scores that show how your child compares with other children of the same age. The person doing the assessment reads these alongside everything else they know about your child. The forms on their own do not diagnose anything.

The school's form matters. Assessments often stall while services wait for it, so it is worth asking the school, kindly and more than once, whether theirs has gone back. The questions themselves are copyrighted, so services cannot share them with you outside the assessment.