This week is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, where those with ADHD and other conditions such as Autism, Tourettes Syndrome, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia raise awareness and celebrate the positive elements of being neurodiverse. Claire will be delivering a free online session called Myths around ADHD organised by ADHD Wise UK Free tickets are available from Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/myths-around-adhdneurodiversity-tickets-145906800167/ … [Read more...] about Neurodiversity Celebration Week
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Happy New Year – Happy New Lockdown
Welcome to 2021 and less than a fortnight in, it looks as though, as parents, we're set for at least a few more months of disruption. For the first January in many years, we don't have a full year's worth of face to face meet ups in our diary, because at the moment we have genuinely no idea when we'll be able to walk through the doors of Funky Monkey, order a coffee, sit down on their comfy chairs and chat to other parents and carers. Whilst most face to face activities have moved … [Read more...] about Happy New Year – Happy New Lockdown
Advent Calendar 2020
We're always looking for new ways to raise awareness about ADHD so a couple of years ago we started the SPACE Advent Calendar. Every day you'll get a new fact, quote or interesting bit of information about ADHD https://www.spacestockport.org/space-advent-calendar/ … [Read more...] about Advent Calendar 2020
Musical Artists With ADHD
We regularly try and showcase celebrities and other successful people with ADHD as a way of helping to to promote the positive side of this greatly misunderstood and extremely stigmatised condition. This year as part of ADHD Awareness Month Claire compiled a Spotify Playlist full of songs by artists with ADHD. Let us know if we missed any of your favourite artists. … [Read more...] about Musical Artists With ADHD
ADHD Awareness Month 2020
For us here at SPACE every month is ADHD Awareness Month, but October is the time when the whole community shouts at the same time. We hoped that by now we wouldn't still need to tell people about ADHD, we've been telling people for years but the message still hasn't fully got through so throughout the year and especially in October we share key bits of information about ADHD. What it is, what it isn't, which "facts" are actually myths and probably most importantly that the never-ending … [Read more...] about ADHD Awareness Month 2020