Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

  • For the teachers of 4 to 17 year olds

  • About your student's behavior, concentration, emotions, and relationships with other people

  • Asks you questions and produces immediate reports

  • To keep things confidential, we don't ask for the name of the school or your student's date of birth. We don't even need to know your student's name, though you can include this if you want it to appear at the top of the reports

  • Our reports will tell you whether your student is scoring in the high, average or low range for a variety of scores. The reports also predict whether experts would have made a diagnosis, and make some suggestions about what to do next.

  • We can only talk about probabilities. We can't say, for example, "Your student definitely has an emotional or behavioral disorder." We can only say things like "On the basis of what you have told us, there's roughly a fifty-fifty chance that an expert would make a diagnosis."

  • A brief computerised assessment is not the same as a full assessment by an expert. Maybe both are needed. Though our computerised predictions are based on thousands of previous assessments, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of our predictions in any individual case. If in doubt, ask a human!