Brooke Shields in a New York Time op ed piece criticizes Tom Cruise’s ” ridiculous rant” against her using medication and therapy for her postpartum depression. To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of […]
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CADDRA (Canadian ADD Resource Alliance) put on a great ADHD conference. It’s hard to believe it’s their first one. I was wrong on my Sunday post on the numbers of attendee’s conference, it wasn’t 200 but 225 people at the conference. Met a lot of interesting and very friendly people, and learned a lot about
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See also CADDAC Canadian ADD network meeting in Vancouver part 1, part 2, and part 3 Just got back from the first day of the two day CADDRA (Canadian ADD Resource Alliance’s) ADHD through the lifespan conference here in Vancouver. I’d give you a link to CADDRA but I’m still waiting for them to have a
See also CADDAC Canadian ADD network meeting in Vancouver part 1 and part 2, and CADDAC Conference. Georgina Rayner of CADDAC chaired the special ed program for the Toronto School board in the early 90’s. They calculated that the cost of dealing with someone with learning disabilities was: $3,000 a year if done in elementary school
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See also CADDAC Canadian ADD network meeting in Vancouver part 1 and part 3 and CADDAC Conference Kathy Galluzzo. Remember that name. She’s a mom of a child with ADD and learning disabilities (LD) and gave a talk to us on children with learning disabilities, stigma and advocacy. You can contact her through CADDAC She combined
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