October is ADHD Awareness Month!

ADHD is a public health issue, October is a wonderful opportunity to share relevant and valid information about ADHD in children and adults. Every day new information, treatments and valuable insights onto ADHD are shared at various workshops.

This October CHADD joins with the ADHD Coaches Organization (ACO), Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), and ADHD Europe for ADHD Awareness Month. To increase awareness, the ADHD Coalition chose the theme “Common Questions: Reliable Answers. (CHAAD Resource)

ADHD Awareness Month is sponsored by leading organizations

CHADD, ACO, and ADDA represent the more than 17 million Americans affected by ADHD. Partnering with them this year is ADHD Europe, which advocates for the rights and dignities of people with ADHD throughout the European continent.

“We must bring awareness and reliable information about ADHD to the international community,” Mr. Cattoi says. “We envision a world that empowers all people with ADHD, without judgment or stigma. A world where every person with ADHD is encouraged to use their strengths. Where all are free to ask for support and to seek appropriate treatment.”

“ADDA is committed to ADHD awareness because we want to live in a world that values inclusion, embraces neurodiversity, and celebrates ADHD,” says ADDA President Duane Gordon. “We’re working to make it possible for adults with ADHD to thrive by providing online education and support in a welcoming and safe environment.”

“The goal of ADHD Awareness Month is to raise awareness, provide reliable information, remove the stigma, and highlight the available supports that enable individuals and families to thrive with ADHD,” said ACO President Tamara Rosier, PhD. “At ACO, we are dedicated to sharing information about various treatment options for ADHD, supporting the continued professionalism of ADHD coaches, as well as providing to the public the most comprehensive list of professional ADHD coaches anywhere.”

Child psychiatrists support and see a growing need for ADHD coaches as an opportunity to help patients. Coaches help patients with motivation, structure and support. Rather than teaching to a patient they use more of a socratic method of teaching and coaching a patient to become a self advocate and self starter.

Dr. Priti Kothari

Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychiatry

Dr. Priti Kothari is a board certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist with fellowship training at John Hopkins Medical Center. Dr. Kothari completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton University with a major in Anthropology and a concentration in Women’s Studies. She then went on to perform research in Eating Disorders at Hunter College/CUNY with an affiliation to Cornell Medical Center. She completed Medical School at Ross University and did her Adult Psychiatry Training at University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Hospitals. Subsequently, she completed Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.