ADD / ADHD Awareness

Reasons To Attend A CHADD Meeting Instead Of Looking Up Information On The Internet

This list was created by Marie Paxson, Coordinator of Chester County Chadd (near Philadelphia). She graciously offered me permission to reprint it here . CHADD stands for Children and Adult with ADD, it’s an international non profit ADD support group. Here’s the US HQ, here’s the Cdn HQ, here’s CHADD Vancouver   (I’m on the board) […]

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Pete on Panel at Vancouver Giftedness Learning Challenges Conference Tomorrow

Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide’s authors of a must read book for parents of ADD or LD children, The Mislabelled Child: How Understanding Your Child’s Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success will be here in Vancouver Sunday to do a one day conference, How Giftedness Can Cause Learning Challenges. It’s sponsored by

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ADD Awareness Day Podcast, Pete and Diane Talk about Adult ADD on CBC Radio Open Line Show BC Almanac

I and my co speaker at the Navigating ADHD presentation for ADD Awareness day, Diane Sugars, Executive Director of the Learning Disabilities Assn of Vancouver were interviewed on CBC Radio’s Open line show BC Almanac by host Mark Forsythe on the topic of Adult ADD the day before ADD Awareness day. I’ve listened to Mark

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Health Canada Rings ADHD Medication Alarm, Media Respond … But There Is No Fire

Health Canada Issued a news release late last month with the title “New Information Regarding Uncommon Psychiatric Adverse Events For All ADHD Drugs” Here’s their first paragraph from their release OTTAWA – Health Canada is informing Canadians that the prescribing and patient information for all drugs used for the management of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity

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