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ADDitude
Magazine is the nation’s first independent
consumer and lifestyle periodical for individuals and families with
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Its mission is to educate,
inform, and promote the well-being of people struggling with AD/HD, as
well as to create new standards of journalism in dealing with this
topic. ADDitude
Magazine was founded by Emmy
Award-winning journalist Ellen Kingsley, herself a mother of a son who
has AD/HD. Kingsley had spent years searching for a reliable,
user-friendly source of information on AD/HD that could assist her
family in dealing with everyday challenges, but was unable to find one
that met her family’s needs. Kingsley created ADDitude
and its Web site in 1998 with the help of a MacArthur Foundation Grant
awarded specifically for this project. Within two years, hundreds of
thousands of copies of the magazine were circulated to subscribers and
clinicians around the world. It is now available at Barnes and Noble and
other major publication outlets, and its Web site, www.ADDitudemag.com,
receives over a million hits each month. ADDitude Magazine’s
advisory board includes leading researchers, educators and clinicians
including: Edward Hallowell, MD, author of “Driven to Distraction;
Harold Koplewicz, MD, director of the Child Study Center at New York
University Medical School; and Karen Wagner, MD, Ph.D., head of child
psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical School and a member of the
executive board of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry. Every scientific article in the magazine is reviewed for
accuracy by at least one board member from a variety of AD/HD-related
disciplines. The ADDitude Magazine staff also includes people who have AD/HD and
parents of children with the disorder. In addition to the magazine’s continuing effort to keep people fully informed about AD/HD, its leaders strive to be a national voice for people who have AD/HD, many of whom are children who have difficulty speaking for themselves and articulating their rights. ADDitude Magazine
also operates the nonprofit ADDitude Foundation, an organization that
provides information and resources for AD/HD families and
individuals and runs workshops and training sessions for teachers and
other professionals. The Foundation also provides scholarship assistance
for indigent minority students to attend private, special needs schools.
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