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About Us
Objectives of AADDS Inc.
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Assisting all adults with
ADD/ADHD and their families.
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Creating other ADD/ADHD support
groups.
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Creating as much awareness of
ADD/ADHD in the community as possible.
AADDS History
The South Australian Adult ADD support group was originally founded by
Sandra Newsom in mid 1993. The reason that Sandra started the group was
because she saw a need of adults to be assisted with this disorder which
was really thought only to affect children but his was incorrect.
In October 1995 Sandy was no longer able to continue coordinating the
group so a committee was formed to continue the good work that Sandy had
started. It must also be stated that she was the founder of the state's
organisation called PLAD (People Living with Attentional Disorders.) this
had now evolved to ADASA. (Attention Disorders Association of South
Australia.)
The committee consisted of Christopher von der Borch as
chairperson/coordinator Fran Dymond as secretary, Tom Lawlor, Jenny Marr,
Colin Tighe. As a newly formed Committee, we needed to change our name
which became ADDSIGNA and we became incorporated by this name in mid
1996.
In June 1999 the group evolved even further and to mark this occasion
we elected to change our name to one that more closely reflected the
disorder that we are dealing with, and the name is AADDS Inc. (Adult
Attention Deficit Disorder Support.) Also at the same time Chris von der
Borch stepped down as chairperson and Fran Dymond was elected to this
position.
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