YMCA Stigmatizes ADHD Families. Acceptable To Stigmatize Children With Mental Health Conditions For Money?

YMCA using children with ADHD as scapegoat bait for their marketing machine. Update: See follow up post to this with new information. The YMCA has done many good things for many people, they’re a large multimillion dollar organization with a big impact on many members of the community in a very wide variety of ways. […]

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Does My Child Have ADHD? The TODAY Show Covers Children with ADHD

Here’s a short video from NBC’s The Today Show titled Does my child have ADHD? Today show host Matt Lauer interviews Dr. Steve Kurtz, the clinical director of New York University’s Child Study Center, Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; and Clinical Director, Institute for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Behavior Disorders, and Beth Kaplanak

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Adult ADHD Coaching Presentation at Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group This Tuesday

I’ll be doing an interactive presentation on Adult ADHD coaching at The Vancouver Adult ADD support group this Tuesday, February 2nd from 6.30-8.30 at Ravensong Community Healthcare Center, 2450 Ontario St, near Main & Broadway. As part of the presentation, I will also be doing a short live demonstration of Adult ADHD coaching of someone

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Information Overload in 1755. Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est La Meme Chose

From Wikipedia. The figure in the centre represents truth—surrounded by bright light (the central symbol of the Enlightenment). Two other figures on the right, reason and philosophy, are tearing the veil from truth. Information overload is not a new thing. Here’s a piece from Stowe Boyd’s thought provoking blog Denis Diderot, “Encyclopédie” (1755) As long as

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