ADHD advocacy websites

ADHD support groups and useful contacts

To help provide you with further impartial information and opinion on ADHD, here is a list of national, regional and international ADHD support group websites:

National

• Mental Health Association http://www.mentalhealth.org.au
• Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder http://www.chadd.org
• Adders.org: http://www.adders.org/ausmap.htm
• Australian Psychological Society http://www.psychology.org.au/
• ADHD Bookstore http://www.newharbinger.com/bookstore/showproducts.cfm?FullCat=49&step=1

New South Wales

• ADDults with ADHD Inc.http://www.add.org.au
• Learning Difficulties Coalition Inc. http://www.ldc.org.au

ACT

• Canberra & Queanbeyan ADD Support Group Inc. http://www.addact.org.au

Queensland

• ADD Assoc. Queensland (ADDAQ) http://www.addaq.org.au

South Australia

• The Australian Disorders Assoc. of South Australia Inc. www.communitywebs.org/AttentionDisordersSA/

Western Australia

• Learning & Attentional Disorders Society of WA (LADS) www.ladswa.com.au

Victoria

• Better Health Channel: http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/

For parents

• ADHD Parents Medication Guide: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association (2007): http://www.parentsmedguide.org/

For teachers

• National Resource Centre for ADHD (US): http://www.help4adhd.org/en/education/teachers/resources
• Teaching children with ADHD (report): http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/adhd/index.html