We need your help to make this dream
into a reality.
Here’s a chance for
women with ADHD to advocate for ourselves! Join our NCGI write-in
campaign to CHADD!
A few short years ago there were NO presentations
on girls and women with ADHD at CHADD annual conferences. Over the
past four years, CHADD has gradually increased gender-focused presentations.
This year there were three - a pre-conference workshop for women
offered by Sari Solden, a women’s networking session, and a
presentation by Pat Quinn and Kathleen Nadeau on girls with ADHD
– a record so far!
Despite the fact that females constitute a majority
of the population, and despite growing evidence that the numbers
of females with ADHD may be equal to that of males, gender issues
is still considered a “special” or “minority”
issue at CHADD.
If we are going to have the range of presentations
needed by women and girls, we need an active write-in campaign before
the conference planning committee gets to work on next year’s
conference in January. At the women’s networking session, there
was a groundswell of enthusiasm about creating a “gender track”
at CHADD so that issues for women and girls could be explored, in
depth, across a broad range of issues.
Some of our ideas about presentation topics for a
gender track at next year’s CHADD conference include:
- Hormones and
ADHD in females across the lifespan
from puberty to menopause
- The Challenge
of Getting Diagnosed– What can
be done to increase accurate, appropriate diagnosis of women and
girls?
- Social skills
and Self-esteem for Girls with ADHD –
focusing on the very different social skills challenges faced
by girls
- Academic Support
Needs of girls with ADHD – addressing
the needs of girls who experience school-related anxiety, school
phobia, issues of being overlooked by teachers, teacher education
about making the classroom ADD-friendly for girls
- Risky Business
- Teenage Girls with ADHD – The
risks are greater than you think when ADHD goes unrecognized
- The Young and
the Restless – Learning to stand
on their own – young women with ADHD
- Love and Marriage
– Do they go together like a horse and carriage for women
with ADHD?
- How can I Help
my Kids unless I Get Help for Myself?
– Motherhood challenges for women with ADHD
- Getting it Together
instead of Falling Apart – ADHD-friendly
organizing approaches for women with ADHD
- Women’s
Support Groups – Guidelines for
creating and maintaining informal women’s ADHD support groups
We’d love to
hear your ideas for Gender Track presentations. Also, suggestions
for Gender Track presenters. Email us at contact@ncgiadd.org.
Do
your part by emailing CHADD at national@chadd.org
.
Let them know you want a
Gender Track!
at next year’s conference!
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