They will often have patients perform tasks and measure a number of things over the performance period. We have had different experience here. It may depend on the age of the person concerned and/or the other conditions that are being considered. But in our case, it was not just a questionnaire. There was a questionnaire but that was only part of it.
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We had a neuropsych. do those things but he said it was an artificial situation and he still relied on the questionnaire more. Psychiatrists (3) relied entirely on the questionnaire and the interview that followed. Every provider, some of them specialists in a top ADHD clinic, told us that there is no objective test for ADHD.
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This might be too outside the box and you would have to have the room for it, etc., but what about designing and building a specialized home gym as an extracurricular that could be done as time allows and use engineering skills?
I was watching American Ninja Warrior the other day (laugh if you must). One contestant was headed to the Ivy League. When he wasn’t competing, he was helping his engineer dad build obstacle equipment in their barn for him to use for training. I thought maybe you could adopt a similar approach.
Also, my kid’s school offers six courses per semester. About 2/3 of her courses are “high rigor” (AP) and admissions counselors have signaled that is sufficient.
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Yeah, no laughing over American Ninja Warrior here. In fact, we used to watch Sasuke on the now-no-longer G4 channel. So we caught quite a few seasons of ANW, but we’ve missed the last few years. Have to get back on that. Sadly, we do not have any space for a specialized home gym at the moment. Also, my spouse is an engineer but not inclined towards manual labor (I tend to tackle that, but don’t have many tools or a workshop at the moment). Parenting fail.
But I hope that my kid can, in a couple of years, start coaching. It’s such a crazy time. Originally they could have begun assisting new athletes at age 12-ish, but my kid wasn’t quite big enough. Then the past 18 months happened. (I started coach-assisting myself at age 11 - different era! - and enjoyed the sense of responsibility it gave me. I also liked the kids, they were adorable and it was fun to help them out.)
Our school offers 7 slots for classes per semester, generally, but one of those is Phys Ed, required up to and including sophomore year/Grade 10.