September Events

FOCUS ON ADD: Managing Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

• Thursday, September 20, 2007, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
• Location: THE HISTORIC AVALON THEATRE
  Easton, MD 21601
• Contact: Call 410-763-7097 for more information.
• Tickets: Open to the Public. $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Click on the Purchase Tickets Button below to buy your tickets now through PayPal. *Click here to download the registration form.
  * You must fill out an registration form in order to attend this lecture. To pay by check instead, make payable to, The Learning Connections, LLC along with completed registration form and mail to:
  The Learning Connections, LLC
  P.O. Box 3293, Easton, MD 21601
  
  

  
  
• CEU's also available for Social Workers & Psychologists for an additional fee of $20. Upon completion of this program, participants will be awarded a certificate for 2 contact hours of Category I for Social Workers and 2 hours of Category A for Psychologists. *Click here to download the registration form.
  Pay online through PayPal by clicking on the CEU Button below (total cost is $30 including admission fee).
  * To pay by check instead, make payable to, The Learning Connections, LLC along with completed registration form and mail to:
  The Learning Connections, LLC
  P.O. Box 3293, Easton, MD 21601
  
  

  
  
• About the Special Guest: Dr. Patricia Quinn is a developmental pediatrician in the Washington, D.C. area. A graduate of the Georgetown University Medical School, she specializes in child development and psychopharmacology and adult issues related to ADHD. Dr. Quinn has worked for over 28 years in the areas of ADHD and learning disabilities. She gives workshops nationwide and has appeared on Lifetime TV's New Attitudes and the PBS show, To the Contrary discussing the issue of girls and women with ADD. Dr. Quinn also appeared in the video aired on PBS titled, OUTSIDE IN: A Look at Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder.
  
  Dr. Quinn is the author of several other books on ADHD. These include the best-selling book, Putting on the Brakes: A Young People's Guide to Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder for children in the 8 to 12 year old group, the companion workbook, The "Putting on the Brakes" Activity Book for Young People with ADHD, and The Best of Brakes Activity Book. She is editor of ADD and the College Student: A Guide for High School and College Students with ADD and author of Adolescence and ADD: Gaining the Advantage. Dr. Quinn is also co-editor of "ADDvance: A Magazine for Women with ADD".
  
  Her books, ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER: Diagnosis and Treatment from Infancy to Adulthood and Voices from Fatherhood: Fathers, Sons, and ADHD have been well received. Her latest book, Understanding Girls with ADHD, was coauthored with Drs. Nadeau and Littman and is groundbreaking in its presentation of this population.
  
  Dr. Quinn lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and four children, two of whom have ADHD.