On Thursday March the 16th at 8pm, CBC’s The Nature of Things will debut a documentary on Adult ADHD. The documentary “ADHD: Not Just for Kids” features adults sharing their storey of a lifelong struggle with ADHD symptoms and how they felt after receiving a diagnosis. ADHD medical experts and researchers discuss many aspects of adult ADHD; that in most cases symptoms are not outgrown, that it continues to go undiagnosed, that it is over-represented in the prison population and still often missed in girls. New research and the impact of ADHD on families and society at large will also be covered.
For more information access CBC Documentary
Interested in adult and adolescent ADHD? Join us for our full day Workshop.
This past Sunday CBC’s “Out in the Open” with Piya Chattopadhyay featured a great show on hidden disabilities including a segment on adult ADHD. Piya interviewed Russ LeBlanc, CADDAC’s communication/media consultant. Russ is our “go to guy” whenever we do any media outreach. Russ, a former radio host, was almost fifty years old before he was diagnosed with ADHD. He shared his feelings and experiences when first diagnosed and what happened when he disclosed that he had ADHD to family, friends and colleagues.
Russ feels the most important thing is that people understand it is real and does exist. "I term it as the Rodney Dangerfield of disorders. It gets no respect." stated Russ.
Join us at our up-coming Adult/Adolescent ADHD Workshop this April the 9th and meet Russ.
To hear the entire interview access, CBC’s “Out in the Open”
