ADHD and autism overlap heavily — both can involve difficulty with focus, emotional regulation, sensory sensitivity and executive function — and each can mask or amplify the other. Assessed separately, a clinician looking only for ADHD can miss autistic traits hiding underneath, and vice versa. Looking at both together, with the same clinical lens, gives a more accurate answer than either assessment run in isolation.
ADHD explains some of it, autism explains some of it, and neither explains all of it on its own.
You were assessed for one condition before, but it didn't capture everything you experience.
Focus difficulties alongside sensory sensitivity, routines, or social exhaustion.
A close relative has one or both diagnoses, and you recognise more than one profile in yourself.
Rather than two separate bookings, two histories to repeat, and two waiting periods.
That uncertainty is itself a reasonable reason to start with the combined route — or with a free 15-minute call.
There are no single biological markers or blood tests that can signify or diagnose ADHD. The Ault ADHD assessment is a robust clinical process which combines a review of your medical history, interviews, behavioural questionnaires in order to determine how your symptoms affect your day to day life.
1. Current Struggles Our ADHD specialists will ask you open questions on your relationships, your work, your sleeping patterns amongst other relevant social patterns.
2. Comprehensive childhood history The symptoms associated with ADHD must be present before 12 years of age as ADHD is a neurodevelopment condition. Your practitioner wil methodically go through your childhood history. How you performed and what you struggled with.
The NICE standards state that a specialist referral should be made if a patient is presenting with symptoms of ADHD that were also present in childhood and are also causing functional difficulties.
• Finding it difficult to keep concentration or finish tasks or prioritise important tasks effectively
• Procrastination- Delaying tasks until close to deadlines or not completing them
• Feeling restless or the need to constantly be doing something
• Struggling at work, with relationships, in education or home life because of these sustained patterns.
• Acting impulsively- Making sudden major decisions without thinking through the consequences, interrupting others in conversations. Importantly, experiencing some of these difficulties does not necessarily mean that you have ADHD. A robust ADHD assessment will look at your developmental history, mental health, and physical health, and the impact it has on your overall functioning.
This short screener covers the symptom areas clinicians assess — attention, restlessness and impulsivity — to indicate whether a full assessment may be worthwhile. It is a screening tool, not a diagnosis.
Who is this screening for?
Enter your details to see your results on screen and receive a copy, along with a short guide on what to do next.
This screener is an educational tool and does not provide a medical diagnosis. Only a qualified clinician can diagnose ADHD following a full clinical assessment. A positive screen does not mean you (or your child) have ADHD, and a negative screen does not rule it out. If you are struggling, please speak to your GP or a mental health professional.
