Comments on: ADD Awareness Day September 20th 2006. What Will You Do To Get The Word Out? http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/08/27/add-awareness-day-september-20th-2006-what-will-you-do-to-get-the-word-out/ A Blog about Adults with Attention Surplus Condition (aka ADHD) by Adult ADD Coach Pete Quily Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:55:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Christina http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/08/27/add-awareness-day-september-20th-2006-what-will-you-do-to-get-the-word-out/comment-page-1/#comment-40496 Christina Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:10:22 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/08/27/add-awareness-day-september-20th-2006-what-will-you-do-to-get-the-word-out/#comment-40496 I wish I would have come across this website sooner- Anyhow, I am a member of the group who is sponsoring an Awareness Day event in Chicago. This is the premier ad/hd event in the midwest. It's being sponsored by Shire, ADDA, CHAAIN, in cooperation with the local support groups all over Northern Illinois. More than 300 people have pre-registered for the day, looking for awareness, advocacy, and education about ad/hd. At least have 12 guest speakers are scheduled with 15 workshops. I was surprised that we're getting a ton of interest. If you are in the Chicago area, join us.Never too late! It's free to the public. We're so excited, we can't wait until the morning of Sept. 16th. We're going to have fun! -Christina member of Naperville Adult Chadd and chaain.org I wish I would have come across this website sooner-
Anyhow, I am a member of the group who is sponsoring an Awareness Day event in Chicago. This is the premier ad/hd event in the midwest. It’s being sponsored by Shire, ADDA, CHAAIN, in cooperation with the local support groups all over Northern Illinois. More than 300 people have pre-registered for the day, looking for awareness, advocacy, and education about ad/hd. At least have 12 guest speakers are scheduled with 15 workshops. I was surprised that we’re getting a ton of interest. If you are in the Chicago area, join us.Never too late! It’s free to the public. We’re so excited, we can’t wait until the morning of Sept. 16th. We’re going to have fun!

-Christina member of Naperville Adult Chadd and chaain.org

]]> By: Robert http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/08/27/add-awareness-day-september-20th-2006-what-will-you-do-to-get-the-word-out/comment-page-1/#comment-37953 Robert Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:50:36 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/08/27/add-awareness-day-september-20th-2006-what-will-you-do-to-get-the-word-out/#comment-37953 Here in NYC, we're hoping that the national Add Awareness day will lead to greater exposure of support groups like ours. We constantly get new people who come to us, expressing the frustration that they've had in not finding out about our group sooner. Additionally, Add people tend to be very creative, and express their needs for different group formats. We now hold a seperate open group discussion, in addition to speaker led meetings. Having an ADD Awareness day will have our cause greatly. The more people who advocate for resources, the faster the US Government will allocate additional funding to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH). Funds could then be earmarked to do more research on the complex issue of how the brain really works. With that infomation at hand, the pharmaceutical, medical & scientific community can come together & create medications that will really target the problem. They are already aware that certain neurotransmitters play an important role (in the brain) with respect to cognitive processing (deficits which trigger other problems, such as anxiety etc). However, ask any doctor, and they will tell you that much more work needs to be done. Here in NYC, we’re hoping that the national Add Awareness day will lead to greater exposure of support groups like ours. We constantly get new people who come to us, expressing the frustration that they’ve had in not finding out about our group sooner.

Additionally, Add people tend to be very creative, and express their needs for different group formats.

We now hold a seperate open group discussion, in addition to speaker led meetings.

Having an ADD Awareness day will have our cause greatly.

The more people who advocate for resources, the faster the US Government will allocate additional funding to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH). Funds could then be earmarked to do more research on the complex issue of how the brain really works.

With that infomation at hand, the pharmaceutical, medical & scientific community can come together & create medications that will really target the problem.

They are already aware that certain neurotransmitters
play an important role (in the brain) with respect to cognitive processing (deficits which trigger other problems, such as anxiety etc).

However, ask any doctor, and they will tell you that much more work needs to be done.

]]> By: Bob Davies http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/08/27/add-awareness-day-september-20th-2006-what-will-you-do-to-get-the-word-out/comment-page-1/#comment-37296 Bob Davies Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:44:44 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/08/27/add-awareness-day-september-20th-2006-what-will-you-do-to-get-the-word-out/#comment-37296 Just thought I'd mention that Robert Cooper from the ADHD Foundation of Canada (http://www.adhdfoundation.ca) is working on getting a national ADHD Awareness Day in Canada. For reasons that I completely agree with as a working ADHD adult, the Foundation would prefer to have the day in March. You can read more about his efforts and his reasons for chosing March on the Foundation's website: http://www.adhdfoundation.ca/goals/awarenessday.htm Bob Davies, ADDult :) Just thought I’d mention that Robert Cooper from the ADHD Foundation of Canada (http://www.adhdfoundation.ca) is working on getting a national ADHD Awareness Day in Canada. For reasons that I completely agree with as a working ADHD adult, the Foundation would prefer to have the day in March. You can read more about his efforts and his reasons for chosing March on the Foundation’s website: http://www.adhdfoundation.ca/goals/awarenessday.htm

Bob Davies, ADDult :)

]]> By: Living with ADD http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/08/27/add-awareness-day-september-20th-2006-what-will-you-do-to-get-the-word-out/comment-page-1/#comment-36950 Living with ADD Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:50:58 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/08/27/add-awareness-day-september-20th-2006-what-will-you-do-to-get-the-word-out/#comment-36950 <strong>What are You Doing for ADD Awareness Day?</strong> I was just reading Pete Quily's Blog and he had a great post about Getting the Word out about ADD Awareness Day. Incase you didn't know September 20, 2006 is the 3rd National ADD Awareness Day. The ADDA Site has What are You Doing for ADD Awareness Day?

I was just reading Pete Quily’s Blog and he had a great post about Getting the Word out about ADD Awareness Day. Incase you didn’t know September 20, 2006 is the 3rd National ADD Awareness Day. The ADDA Site has

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