Friends of Autism and ADHD and Fingal LEADER Partnership invite you to attend an information day for parents of children with special needs with talks from Dr Sean J. Fennell, Consultant in Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrics, who will discuss ‘red flags’ for developmental delays and medication, and Professor Carol Fitzpatrick, Consultant Child Psychiatrist, whose talk is titled 'Support for parents of young people with ADHD'. This information day will be held in the Bracken Court Hotel on September 19th from 10:30am-3:00pm.
Following on from this, a 6 week course – “Coping with ADHD – Support for Parents and Carers” will be offered. This will be held in the Parish Centre, St Peter and Paul’s Church, Balbriggan. The course beings on Thursday 8th November and will run every Thursday until 13th December from 6:00pm-8:00pm.
For more details on either of the above events please contact Katherine Moreland, Advocacy Worker or Bernie Hagan, ADHD/Autism Administrator on 018020484 or email
kmoreland@fingalleaderpartnership.ie /
adhdfingal@gmail.com.
‘Friends of Autism and ADHD’ is a charity shop established by local community groups, and now has three branches in Balbriggan and Skerries. They welcome donations of clothes, bric-a brac and furniture as well as new volunteers. Friends of Autism/ADHD are very grateful for the hard work of all their volunteers without whom none of this would be possible and are always happy to accept new volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering with Friends of Autism/ADHD, please contact Bernie Hagan on 01 8020484 /
adhdfingal@gmail.com or drop into one of the shops.