Priority area

Each dimension gets a single score out of 100, worked out from where you left the sliders, and that score decides which of the four labels it gets. Priority area is the top of the four. On most dimensions it starts at 67 out of 100, which is around "Quite a lot" on the sliders. On a few dimensions the bar sits higher for younger children, because some things are simply more common at four or five than at twelve.

The label is a level, not a tally. It tells you how high your answers in that area came out overall. It does not count how many separate things came up, and it cannot: a dimension where you rated everything fairly high and a dimension where you rated a few things at the very top can arrive at the same label. So read the label as "this area came out strongest", not as "this many problems were found".

A Priority area is a starting point, not a verdict. Of the eight areas we asked about, this is the one where what you described came out highest, so it is worth putting your energy here first, at home and with school. It is a summary of your own observations over roughly the last month. It is a picture of strengths and needs, not a diagnosis, not a label for your child, and it does not decide anything about a formal assessment Diagnostic assessment The appointments where specialists work out whether your child meets the criteria for a diagnosis, such as autism or ADHD. It is the step that can end with a diagnosis. Read the full definition of Diagnostic assessment .

It is also worth knowing that this reflects how you answered. Two people describing the same child can land on different labels, because the sliders ask you to judge. That is fine. The label is there to help you decide what to raise first.