Dorset ADHD Support Group

Covering the County of Dorset (Dorset, Poole and Bournemouth

Dorset ADHD Support Group is a voluntary organisation that supports those with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and their families. 

 

The committee is made up of volunteers with no paid staff and provides support on a one to one basis as well as parent group meetings.

 

We welcome service users, their families and service providers to join the group and work with us so that we can provide the appropriate support for our members.                                  

  

Including young people within our organisation is important to us; they are our future and have every right to be treated with respect and dignity. Their input and contributions as to how the group is run is very, very important to the Dorset ADHD Support Group. 

 

ADHD Schools Exclusion Project

For your copy of our document on ADHD School Exclusions, please e-mail us at adhdsupportgroup@btinternet.com

This document allows you as parents and carers to get schools/services to register their reasons as to why they are excluding your child from school/activities.

 

Dorset ADHD Conference

Following the release of the NICE Guidelines for ADHD, Dorset ADHD is bringing together leading authorities in ADHD to update professionals working in both research and clinical practice.

Monday 20th September 2010  

 

The Dorford Centre Dorchester   Dorset

 

Even though ADHD has been well researched for over a 100 years, there are many myths and stereotypes purported by the community, media and professionals alike.

Based on research and best practice, this conference aims to educate front-line clinicians to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice.

  Who is this conference for?

Psychiatrist, psychologists, GP’s, and front line health care professionals, parents, carers and those working with young people and families.

What topics are covered?

Professor Eric Taylor: ADHD Implementing the NICE Guidelines

Dr Chrissy Boardman: Delivering an ADHD Service in Dorset

Dr Richard Purvis: ADHD in Early Years Dr Stephen Stanley: ADHD and Adolescents

Dr Deborah Judge: ADHD in Transition 

Dr Blanca Bolea: Moving forward – A Time for Change!

 

Chaired by Dr Nick Kosky

 

Costs including lunch/refreshments £25.00  

To register your interests in attending this event, please e-mail us at team4adhd@btinternet.com

Booking form can be accessed at bottom of this page.

 Help us raise awareness of ADHD during National ADHD Awareness Week

19th to 25th September 2010

 

 

 Dorset NHS Foundation Trust launch new website

Where's your head at?

http://www.wheresyourheadat.co.uk/

 

Providing information and newsletter on CAMHS Dorset wide. Ideal for parents, carers, children, young people and professionals. See the newsletter on who CAMHS are and what they provide.

 

 

Dorset ADHD Support Group

Forget-Me-Not Supported Housing

 

Information on our new services of Supported Housing in Weymouth for young people aged 15-25 with hidden impairments such as ADHD/ASD/LD coming soon.

For further details on our service, please contact Amanda Legg, Project Manager on 01305-761164

 

Please note: This number is for information on Supported Housing ONLY!

Enquiries re Support Group support should be to the Group Helpline on 01305 768297.

 

  

High Court ADHD ruling welcomed

 
A school was wrong not to make reasonable adjustments for a pupil excluded for disruptive behaviour linked to his ADHD, the High Court has ruled.
The parents of the pupil, who, for legal reasons is identified only as JT, then aged 8, took out a case against the school under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) after he was excluded for scratching a teacher's arm while being removed from a classroom.
A Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal panel had found that excluding JT in this way constituted less favourable treatment, but that it was justified on health and safety grounds.
The Tribunal also found that the school had failed to make reasonable adjustments in relation to the exclusion and that the school should have taken preventative action by enlisting the support of a specialist team to train teachers in techniques to stop such situations escalating.
The school accepted that excluding JT was an inappropriate way to deal with a pupil with ADHD. But it appealed against the tribunal's decision on the grounds that the only relevant aspect of JT's condition was his tendency to physically abuse other people and that reasonable adjustments were not required because scratching is not defined as a disability under the DDA.
 
But the tribunal's decision was upheld in the High Court.
 
The Judge said that although the scratching incident did amount to a tendency towards physical abuse and that the specific incident was exempt from the DDA, JT's condition of ADHD was not exempt from protection.
John Wadham, Group Director Legal, at the EHRC, which funded the family’s successful defence in the High Court appeal, said that the judgement would clarify teachers' responsibilities towards disabled pupils.
He said: “This judgment sends a clear signal to schools that they must provide an appropriate teaching environment with the right support for children with special educational needs and to not wait until an incident has taken place before doing so."
Richard Rieser (pictured), a consultant on inclusive education and a member of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal panel but who was not involved with JT's case, welcomed the High Court ruling which he said gave an unequivocal position that children whose conditions can lead to behaviour problems are covered by the DDA.
But he added that the government needed to be more pro-active by training staff and disseminating information in schools on how to support such pupils.
John Wadham also added that the case had highlighted the need for clarification on what aspects of a disability are excluded by the DDA which the Commission would seek to clarify via the Government’s new Equality Bill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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