Participate in ADHD Awareness Month

Written By Cynthia Hammer, MSW

Written by Cynthia Hammer, MSW

 

I made a commitment to mail 10 letters and am proud that they are ready to be mailed on October 1, the start of ADHD Awareness Month.  I found addresses for elementary schools in Tacoma by searching on the web.

Have you decided to take action? Have you decided this is a small step you will take to create more awareness about Inattentive ADHD? We need your participation. The more letters mailed, the more teachers and physicians we educate about Inattentive ADHD.

Participate in our wake-up call, waking up people’s awareness about Inattentive ADHD in children. Block time in your calendar to print the letters and mail them.   Visit our website to print out the letters, which are pdfs on our letterhead, and make your commitment. It’s simple.  Sign your name on the letters, stamp and address the envelopes and drop them in the mail.  Bonus points if you ask three people to do the same.

Cynthia Hammer, MSW

Cynthia Hammer, MSW, was diagnosed with inattentive ADHD in 1992 when she was 49 years old. The following year she created the non-profit organization, ADD Resources, with a mission to educate adults and helping professionals about ADHD in adults. She ran the organization for 15 years before retiring.

During the Covid isolation she wrote a book about her life with inattentive ADHD which should be published by the end of this year. In writing the book, she was dismayed to learn that children with inattentive ADHD continue to be under-diagnosed and adults with inattentive ADHD often are incorrectly diagnosed with depression or anxiety.

She created a new non-profit in 2021, the Inattentive ADHD Coalition (www.iadhd.org), to create more awareness about inattentive ADHD and the need for early diagnosis and treatment.

https://www.iadhd.org
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