& Family Support Centre
ADD / ADHD Awareness Week
An annual event begun in 2005 by the ADD NZ Trust.
2008 ADD / ADHD Awareness Week
18 to 24 August 2008
Attend the "3 A's and an F" Seminar on Saturday 8 September 2007
At St. Anne's Parish Church Hall, Emmett Street, Newtown, Wellington.
Click here to view the registration form (PDF, 298KB)
Click here to view the seminar programme (PDF, 74KB)
2007 ADD / ADHD Awareness Week
3 to 9 September
Attend the "Survival of the Family" Seminar on Saturday 8 September 2007
At the Home of Compassion, Island Bay, Wellington.
2006 ADD / ADHD Awareness Week
31 July to 6 August
Had a theme of "Do They Grow Out of It? - challenging young people and dynamic adults with ADHD, Asperger's & Autism".
The week's events held mainly in Wellington focused on:
- How to help these people realise their goals, and on issues for families, employers, GP's, practice nurses, Police, lawyers, schools, and Government policies.
- Where to from here: future trends in diagnosis and medical care.
- The ADD Assessment & Family Support Centre organised for a visit to Auckland and Wellington during ADD/ADHD Awareness Week 2006 by the leading Australian adult ADD/ADHD specialist, Dr Philip Bird, who is a consultant adult psychiatrist from Brisbane where he has one of the very few clinics focused on assisting adults. (Refer: www.gosforthclinic.com.au) No such clinic specifically for adults yet exists in New Zealand.
- Dr Philip Bird was a keynote speaker at the "Do They Grow Out of It?" public lecture and seminar organised by the ADD NZ Trust at the Home of Compassion, 2 Rhine Street, Island Bay, Wellington, on Saturday 5 August from 9am to 4pm.
- Dr Bird established at his Gosforth Clinic a private adult ADD/ADHD clinic in 2002 to provide an efficient and comprehensive assessment treatment programme for patients referred from their GPs. In addition to a range of medical diagnosis and treatments, the Clinic also provides opportunities for education assessment, financial coaching and a family education programme in addition to the individual treatment offered.
- By mid 2006 over 200 adults had already been treated at this Clinic. Many have had excellent results with a sustained improvement in quality of life.
- Dr Bird has produced a DVD on ADD/ADHD, which is available from the ADD Assessment & Family Support Centre – for a cost of $ 20 plus postage. (Also refer to Resources – Books & DVDs).
- Dr Bird has chaired regular meetings for Psychiatrists and GPs and has given regular media interviews in Australia. He has also been part of a team that has put forward a proposal to the Queensland State Government Correctional Services Department for an ADHD educational and treatment initiative with state prisons.
2005 ADD / ADHD Awareness Week
The ADD Assessment & Family Support Centre organised for a visit to Wellington during ADD/ADHD Awareness Week 2005 by Dr Mark Selikowitz, a leading Australian Consultant Developmental Paediatrician based in Sydney who specialises in learning and behavioural disorders in children.
Dr Mark Selikowitz is the founder and director of the Sydney Developmental Clinic. He has published numerous original research articles and contributes regularly to conferences and publications in the field of Developmental Paediatrics.
Two books published by Dr Mark Selikowitz that are available from the ADD Centre or from the Sydney Developmental Clinic are "ADHD the Facts" and "Dyslexia the Facts". For further background information refer to the clinic's website: www.sydneydevelopmentalclinic.com.au
The ADD Assessment & Family Support Centre also has copies of the Seminar presentations on DVD and videos.