Adult ADD Strengths

Here’s a site with many ideas on different interventions for children with Attention Deficit Disorder and learning disabilities from the Child Development Institute, they have a large website, looks like it’s worth poking around.

Here’s a list of their ideas for children with Attention Deficit Disorder in the Classroom

Update: For those of you interested, my interview on CBC Radio’s BC Almanac with Diane Sugars is up on their website in real audio for 1 week. See the Openline Archives 9/19/2006
Adults living with ADD: Pete Quily and Diane Sugars. Had a good time, Mark’s a good interviewer. Will podcast it later.

Today is ADD Awareness Day. Here’s a few ideas for your consideration.

Read over my way’s to deal with the people who think ADD doesn’t exist Part 1 and part 2 so you’re better prepared to deal with the flat earth people.

Check out ADDA’s free ADD teleclasses this week

Dave Cheong has some great tips to stay focused at work. via 52 reviews

While this wasn’t designed for people with ADD I think many of them do apply to us.

He talks about choosing the right time to do boring tasks. That’s important, but another thing to consider, is to make a list of what you consider to be ingredients of an enjoyable task, and combine using these strategies as well as applying some boredom/transformation strategies to the task.

You might also want to look at this post I did ADD and Getting Motivated Some Questions and Strategies

I’ll be a guest along with Diane Sugars from The Learning Disabilities Association of BC - Vancouver on CBC Radio’s BC Almanac
open line show tomorrow (Tuesday sept 19th) from 1:00-1:30pm. Mark Forsythe is the host. We’ll be talking about ADD and about our Vancouver ADD Awareness Day event, Navigating ADHD, and possibly ADD coaching.

So if you want to listen in, you can do so at 690 AM on your radio, or listen online via windows media player. Here’s a webpage where you can listen live, click on the Vancouver one under “west” and listen to it in windows media player.

Joe’s Goals is a great, simple, easy, and free way to keep track of your goals online. It’s great for building daily positive habits.

Joe’s Goals is a simple yet powerful tool to make tracking your goals the easiest part of accomplishing them. Use our simple single page interface to setup daily and weekly goals and track your overall progress and score. Setup negative goals (or vices) to confront and overcome the bad habits that finally need to get the boot.

ADDA is offering 10 free ADD related teleclasses during ADD Awareness Week. Unfortunately for registration they require you to download a pdf and mail or fax in the registration. So 1980’s of them. Not so good for impulsive last minute ADDErs. Maybe they should look at how ADDClasses does it

Hopefully they’ll be getting an online registration system like everyone else who does teleclasses. As well as having the info online to read on the website, instead of just pdf only. That being said it’s good that they did this, and I know it takes a lot of time and energy to get 1 teleclass organized let alone 10.

Here’s a list of the 10 free ADD teleclasses over 4 days.

I’ll be one of the panelists speaking and answering questions at the Self Help Resource Association’s Peer Support for Healthy Communities: An Information and Networking Fair September 21. If you’re leader in a lower mainland self help or peer support group you might want to attend this but you need to register by tomorrow.

Apologies for not blogging it earlier, I’ve been going all out helping to organize the Navigating ADHD event for ADD Awareness day.

While I’m still waiting for a Canadian ADD Awareness day, thought I’d help do my part to get the ball rolling in my neck of the woods. Here’s an event the Vancouver Adult ADD Support group is organizing to help get the word out about ADD awareness in the Vancouver Area.

If you live in the Vancouver area you can help us get the word out about the event, visit the website and download the pdf brochure of the event and post it in your neighbourhood coffee shop, community center, school, etc.

Navigating ADHD. Seminar and Question and Answer Session for Vancouver ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) Awareness Day Wed Sept 20th.