ADDitude Magazine
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ADDitude Magazine is the quarterly consumer publication about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD ADHD) created and distributed by New Hope Media in New York, NY. It contains feature and service articles about ADD, ADHD and learning disabilities like dyslexia
Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...

. It addresses topics including: diagnosing ADHD in children and adults, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder treatments
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder treatments
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder management is the treatment options available to people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder .There are several effective and clinically proven options to treat people with ADHD...

 including medication and/or alternative therapies, parenting children with ADHD, learning disabilities and school challenges, and living with adult ADD. ADDitude Magazine is described by child psychotherapist Keath Low as "The happy, healthy lifestyle magazine for people with ADD."

The official web site for ADDitude magazine was launched in April 2007, and now contains free searchable archives, expert Q&As, ADHD bloggers, ADHD discussion forums, and a directory of ADHD service providershttp://directory.additudemag.com/.

History

ADDitude was founded by Ellen Kingsley (an Emmy-winning television journalist) in 1998 to serve the parents of America's 2-3 million schoolchildren with ADD and ADHD, as well as adults, with the disorder. Kingsley founded ADDitude as a web site a few years after her oldest son, Teddy, was diagnosed with severe ADHD. ADDitude became a print magazine two years later.

Kingsley succumbed to breast cancer on March 8, 2007. In her honor, ADDitude magazine started the Ellen Kingsley Award for ADHD Advocacy the same year.

Staff

The ADDitude editorial and design staff includes:

Editor in Chief: Susan Caughman

Editor: Wayne Kalyn

Creative Director: Mark Gentile

Managing Editor: Eve Gilman

Designer: Orin Brecht

Copy Editor: Gene Jones

Assistant Editor: Joanna Yeung

Editorial Assistant: Caitlin Ford

Scientific Advisory Board

Members of the magazine's scientific advisory board review all scientific or medical information contained in ADDitude prior to publication:

Chairman: Larry Silver, M.D. (Georgetown University Medical School)

Russell Barkley, Ph.D. (Medical University of South Carolina)

Carol Brady, Ph.D. (Baylor College of Medicine)

Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D. (Yale University School of Medicine)

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
Edward Hallowell (psychiatrist)
Edward M. Hallowell is a child and adult psychiatrist who specialises in ADD/ADHD and who also has ADD. He is the co-author of the books Driven to Distraction and Delivered From Distraction .-Biography:...

 (The Hallowell Center)

Peter Jaksa, Ph.D. (ADD Centers of America)

Peter Jensen, M.D. (Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)

Rachel Klein, Ph.D. (Child Study Center, New York University Medical School)

Harold S. Koplewicz
Harold S. Koplewicz
Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz is one of the nation’s leading child and adolescent psychiatrists. He is widely recognized as an innovator in the field, a strong advocate for child mental health, and a master clinician. He has been repeatedly recognized in America’s Top Doctors, Best Doctors in America,...

, M.D. (Child Study Center, New York University Medical School)

Michele Novotni, Ph.D. (Wayne Counseling Center)

Patricia Quinn, M.D. (National Center for Gender Issues and AD/HD)

Karen Wagner, M.D., Ph.D. (University of Texas Medical Branch)

Timothy Wilens, M.D. (Harvard Medical School)

ADDitudeMag.com

The official web site for ADDitude magazine was relaunched in April 2007, and now contains free searchable archives, expert Q&As, ADHD bloggers, ADHD discussion forums, and a directory of ADHD service providershttp://directory.additudemag.com/.

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