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25/10/2021 - Barb Easter

Developing Reading Skills in Children with ADHD

Preschool Children Learning to read is a complex process where a child must establish sound-symbol relationships and then learn how to connect those sounds into words, following the language’s complex and often inconsistent rules. So, the f

25/10/2021 - Barb Easter

Something is Wrong - The Beginning by Tiffany Jones

Something is wrong – a parent’s struggle to find the right information and steps to navigate our health system when their child may have ADHD, Autism or any mental health issue. What followed was a makeshift plan of various doctors, suggestions and mor

21/07/2021 - CADDAC National Director

Discovering ADHD In My Family

C. LeAnne Taylor Children growing up in Ontario post-war generally lived in two-parent homes, with a stay-at-home mom. My family was an anomaly since my father died when my brother was seven and I was three. My brother struggled with many things – alth

16/07/2021 - CADDAC National Director

Our Students With ADHD Need You!

Our Students With ADHD Need You! Take This Once In A Lifetime Opportunity To Make Your Views Known. The Ontario Government, after years of advocacy work by the AODA and other disability organizations, has committed to enact an Education Accessibility S

07/07/2021 - CADDAC National Director

Our Family's Struggles With ADHD, Dyslexia & Reading

By: Melissa Tamblyn I am an A type person – A-type in every way. Star student, hard driving, goal seeking, avid reader, knowledge seeker type of person. Learning has come easily to me so guess what? – I like it. Imagine if reading - a key skill for kno

07/07/2021 - CADDAC National Director

No One Would Have Guessed

By: B. H. I only recall difficulties first becoming apparent to me in elementary school - despite being a social, athletic, well-rounded top student. I was secretly starting to struggle with procrastination, perfectionism and pulling stressful “all-ni