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(Chicago & Naperville, IL) – Chicago area groups, Insight EAP LLC and Chicago Area AD/HD Information

Network (CHAAIN), will celebrate National AD/HD Awareness Day on September 14, 2005, with “Focus Fairs” in

Chicago and Naperville. The events are free and open to the public.

The Naperville Focus Fair, with support from the National Attention Deficit Association (ADDA), will run 4-8:30p.m.,

at the 95th Street Library, 3015 Cedar Glade Dr., in Naperville. The event will feature renowned AD/HD author of

The Little Monster: Growing up with AD/HD, Dr. Robert Jergen, as keynote speaker. An expert panel discussion and

information tables of specialty vendors will also be featured. For more information, visit   www.c haain .org .   The Chicago
Focus Fair, co-sponsored by Loyola University Chicago’s School of Social Work, will be held

from 4-7p.m at Loyola Chicago’s Water Tower Campus, 820 N. Michigan Avenue. The emphasis will be adult AD/HD

awareness, education and support. Free adult AD/HD screenings will take place throughout the event.

AD/HD experts will discuss what AD/HD looks like in adults, give tips on managing symptoms, and answer questions.

For additional information, visit www.chicagoareaadd.org .

National AD/HD Awareness Day is a widely celebrated, high-profile media event. It helps get information about the

disorder out to the American public. It aims at countering the stigma, myths and misinformation surrounding AD/HD.

AD/HD Awareness Day was started in 2004 by ADDA, complete with passage of a US Senate Resolution that

recognized AD/HD as a major public health concern.

For a copy of Senate Resolution 201 of the 109th congress, see http://chaain.org/2005/proclamation.html

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