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10/09/2015 - CADDAC National Director

CADDAC’s Night of Comedy and Inspiration with Rick Green

Rick Green may be best known as ‘Bill’ on the long running series The Red Green Show, but to CADDAC and the ADHD world Rick has always been the renowned creator of two ground-breaking documentaries on adult Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity. Over the man

08/09/2015 - CADDAC National Director

Dr. Rhonda Martinussen presents on Reading Difficulties in Children with ADHD at the 2015 CADDAC Conference

Reading comprehension has been flagged as an area of concern for many students with ADHD. The ability to understand what one is reading is essential for all areas of academic success, success in the workplace and even overall health. If you have wonder

04/09/2015 - CADDAC National Director

Conference speaker David Giwerc talks ADHD Coaching

In the past ten years ADHD Coaching has become one of the most popular types of ADHD treatment used in conjunction with medication or on its own. CADDAC frequently receives calls and e-mails asking for information on coaching as a recognized treatment

31/08/2015 - CADDAC National Director

Conference speaker Susan Pinsky talks Organizational Solutions

What better person to understand the necessity for simple and practical organizational strategies than the mother of a child with ADHD? Susan Pinsky, one of CADDAC’s 2015 conference speakers has been a Professional Organizer since 2001, specializing in

24/08/2015 - CADDAC National Director

What it’s like to have ADHD as a Woman

Having raised three boys with a variety of ADHD presentations, I continue to find it fascinating how ADHD can be similar yet so different in girls and women. Unfortunately ADHD continues to be underdiagnosed in girls, resulting in many young women grow

05/08/2015 - CADDAC National Director

The right and sometimes very wrong ways we react to ADHD behaviours

Two ADHD media posts I viewed today demonstrate some examples of the right and the horribly wrong ways to deal with children with ADHD. A recent study out of the University of Buffalo shows that praise of the potential for rewards improves the performa