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September 18th 2006

National ADHD Awareness Week
ADHD Awareness Week is Launched!

We have just received the following Press Release to Launch the ADHD Awareness Week!!

"Over a third of ADHD children officially excluded from school
New findings mark start of first ever
National ADHD Awareness Week

London, Monday 18th September: In an ADDISS* survey of over 500 parents of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), 39% reported that their child had been 'fixed term' excluded from school as a result of their condition, with 11% excluded permanently." Wow that is a bit of an amazing figure to come out of the Survey that was run by ADDISS a short time ago which results are also being published during the Awareness Week

To read the full Press Release Click Here

For more details of the Awareness Week Click logo Below


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