Adolescent Symptoms

Most teenagers with ADD will have some but not all of these challenging behaviors. To make a diagnosis of ADD/ADHD, childhood ADD/ADHD symptoms should have been observed before age seven, even if undiagnosed at the time. Again, these symptoms may be viewed as developmentally normal, or may be indications of other disorders. Only a team of trained professions, using established diagnostic criteria, will be able to ascertain whether your teen suffers from ADD/ADHD.