I am posting a message that ADD Coach Beverley Rohman forwarded to me to make sure that you know about the upcoming conference being put on by ADDA.
They want to encourage you to sign up right now - so they are giving you a discount if you register by May 16th. Here is the important information:

I’m writing today to tell you about the 2008 Adult Attention Deficit Disorder (ADDA) Conference this July 10-13 in Minneapolis

“Adult AD/HD: People, Purpose & Passion –
Pathways for Success”

This year’s conference features some of the most renown authorities in the world of AD/HD, including keynote presentations by:

* Sari Solden,...

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People are becoming more aware of the fact that adults often have ADD/ADHD as well as kids. A recent US based study found that 4.4% of American adults have ADD/ADHD, and many aren’t aware of it.

Shire, the company which produces Adderall and Vyvanse, has developed an awareness campaign which will help adults to ’self screen’ for the disorder. They have called it the ‘RoADHD Trip’, as they will be traveling to different US cities.

This initiative is including volunteers from the Attention Deficit Disorder Association, who will help to answer questions for the estimated 20,000 adults who will complete...

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On April 24, 2008, the US Food and Drug Administration approved Lisdexamfetamine - known as Vyvanse - to be used for adult ADD and ADHD. Prior to this announcement, the medicine was just approved for use in children aged 6-12.

Although people often think of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as just a disorder of childhood - it often carries on into adult life - and studies have shown that over 4% of US adults have ADD or ADHD.

Despite the fact that Vyvanse has just received approval for use in adults - it has been used by some doctors previously, through ‘off label usage’ (see my previous article on this: Vyvanse in Adults).

The study which led to the approval included 414 adults, aged 18-55 years old. Over 4 weeks, they were tried on Vyvanse or placebo. Generally, the adults noted significant improvement within 1 week of starting the medicine. All doses used...

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Yesterday, the site for our new program, Unwrapping The Gift of ADD went live for registrations.

We knew that a lot of people were interested in our program, and the ‘buzz’ was building…
We had 479 spots for our program, but based on all of the feedback that was coming in, it was obvious that wouldn’t be enough…

And then, at 11:55 am eastern time (5 minutes before the site was supposed to go live!), the server went down.
Despite all of our planning - when the traffic started to hit the site hard, it crashed. It turned out that there was a problem with a ‘mysql database’.
Hmmm…. Thankfully, my webmaster ‘diagnosed this’, and got us going by 12:09 pm (i.e. 9 minutes late). [Thank you Mike!!!!].
It was a very long 9 minutes for us (And many of you too…)
Despite all of the planning, technology is technology…

Needless...

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Dr. Hallowell and I just met at the Hallowell Center a few days ago - to put the final plans together for the ‘Unwrapping The Gift of ADD‘ program which will be launching in a few days (The website will go live on Wednesday April 16th at 12 pm EDT, 9 am PDT).

I flew down to Boston for the day (and then had to drive to Sudbury, MA to get to Dr. Hallowell’s office). I thought it would be fun to bring my camcorder - and let you join me for this journey. In this video, you’ll get to:

• See Dr. Hallowell’s office
• Listen in as I ask him some of the questions that have come up about ‘Unwrapping the Gift of ADD’
• and hear more about this program

Even though you may not ever be able to visit the Hallowell Center - you can check it out with me on these videos…

This video...

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ADD Coach and fellow ADD blogger Tara McGillicuddy just blogged about the fact that she is confused that Dr. Hallowell and myself have discussed a ’strength based diagnosis’ for ADD (we shared this in a special report called: Find the Genius in ADD). She expresses confusion that we’re sharing this message with the general public, when this is a message that needs to get to doctors and health care providers who actually do the diagnosing. She feels we should have focused on the ’strength based approach’ rather than a ’strength based diagnosis’(Visit Tara’s blog to read her article).

In short - I agree.

…And I do spend a lot of time teaching other doctors about a strength...

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Last week, I released a special report that I co-authored with Dr. Edward Hallowell, best selling author of Driven To Distraction, Delivered From Distraction and other top books.

We believe that ADD and ADHD have gifts within them, but they’re gifts which are hard to unwrap. We intend to change the paradigm of ADD out there - to help to improve the lives of those people touched by ADD and ADHD.

This week - we have released two interviews which can be listened to for free, and can be very helpful in helping you to understand the ’strength based’ approach to ADD and ADHD:

1) I interviewed Dr. Hallowell himself about his ADD and Dyslexia. He provided excellent insight into his own story and how ADD/ADHD and dyslexia can be positive or have gifts within them.

2) ...

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Dr. Edward Hallowell and I have just released our new digital special report - and we are getting great feedback already.

In fact, a local radio station has asked to interview me tomorrow (April 2) at 12:35 pm Eastern time. Even if you aren’t in the area- using the power of the internet - you can listen in if you’d like.

The radio station is: 610 CKTB
The live streaming player for their station is here.

Join us if you can.

Dr. Kenny

p.s. To get your hands on this digital report - click here to learn how to ‘Find The Genius in ADD’.

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