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Your donations to CHADD support the programs and services of the nation’s leading nonprofit organization and its local community affiliates that together work to improve the lives of people affected by AD/HD.

There are some 4.4 million children in the U. S. with AD/HD according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and CHADD provides a wide variety of programs and services to assist them.  In recent years, CHADD programs and services for children and adolescents with AD/HD have expanded to meet the needs of the millions of adults also being diagnosed and treated for the disorder in rapidly growing numbers. 

Your gift can brighten the beacon of light and hope that CHADD has held high as an advocate since 1987 for individuals and families facing the realities of AD/HD in their lives. CHADD relies on its members, friends and other stakeholders to provide the resources needed to help as many people as possible who are affected by AD/HD and co-occurring disorders.

There are many ways to make individual and organizational donations to CHADD and to support the efforts of CHADD. Be assured that every gift is important to CHADD and fulfillment of its mission!

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Current Events

Acclaim for the 2006 CHADD Educator's Manual on AD/HD!

Through the support of individual donors, the CHADD President's Council, foundation support, and many other contributing sponsors, the volunteer group led by Chris Zielger Dendy, has successfully completed publication of the 2006 CHADD Educator's Manual. This was an enormous undertaking that could not have been completed without CHADD supporters like you!

The purpose of the CHADD Educator’s Manual on AD/HD is to provide the latest research, practical application techniques, resources and model program frameworks on:  AD/HD, executive function deficits, social-behavioral challenges and co-occurring disorders associated with AD/HD; towards the end goal of increasing the knowledge level of educators and advocates who work with children affected with AD/HD.

The CHADD Educators’ Manual on AD/HD was originally published in 1992, as a publication focusing on the most current research on AD/HD as well as application strategies towards implementation of techniques in a classroom environment. The intended audience was educators, parents and other stakeholders. The manual was distributed nationally and was viewed as “the source” of information on the education of students with AD/HD. CHADD National and local CHADD chapters sold the manual to CHADD members and other stakeholders. Parents bought the manual for themselves and gave copies of it to their teachers. The initial printing was 100,000 copies. A second printing had to be ordered to meet the need. Now, fourteen years later, the information in those manuals is obsolete and the requests from parents and educators for a re-write of the Educator’s Manual have been taken to heart. A new Educator’s Manual has been completed and is being shipped (in stages) to every public school in the nation. 

Also included in the foundation support granted for this project, is the funding to create a teacher in-service. This in-service will be designed to teach educators how to best use the Educator’s Manual and the application of techniques outlined in the text. This in-service is being co-developed by CHADD President Dr. Anne Teeter-Ellison, a leading expert and researcher on AD/HD and Chris Zeigler Dendy, Lead Editor on the CHADD Educator’s Manual and highly respected educational consultant and former teacher.

CHADD has been receiving evaluation documents and letters of thanks from schools and parents around the country. One school in Texas wrote:"This manual will be most beneficial to our staff and we are delighted to have received it". Please keep those letters coming!

The next step in this ongoing effort is to begin to enlist the aid of funding partners who will support an in-service program for teachers in their state. If you would like to see this in-service in your state, or would like to support this national effort, please consider making a donation to CHADD, or joining the CHADD President's Council to take projects like the Educator's Manual through to fruition! For your own copy of the Educator's Manual for use by you, your family, or the teachers in your childrens' schools, please navigate to the CHADD Online Store and purchase your copy today! 

For questions on these, or any options to support CHADD please contact the Development team at (301) 306-7070: Russ Shipley (Chief Development Officer ext. 110; russ_shipley@chadd.org) or Laura DeShano (Development & Foundation Relations Manager ext 114; laura_deshano@chadd.org).

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