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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

22/06/2021 - CADDAC National Director

All I Know About Inclusion, I Learned from a Global Pandemic

By: C. W. When my son entered kindergarten in the fall of 2018, he had no ADHD diagnosis. He was just an energetic kid who struggled with appropriate social behaviour. I figured, “well, he’s only 5, he can’t be expected to sit still all day. This is no

03/06/2021 - CADDAC National Director

Take Back Your Calendar

It’s not only about being organized. One of the biggest challenges of living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), no matter how old you are, is working with the ongoing challenge of monitoring our executive function, including: How we