CNN's Young Person Who Rocks

CNN.com recently featured a story about Blake Taylor, an eighteen-year-old college student who has written a memoir called ADHD & Me. The site also has a short video in which Blake answers questions from viewers.

I'm thinking he might make a great potential interviewee for "The Monarch Hour."

John Robison promotion

Thank you all so very much for all you’ve done and continue to do to promote the John Robison event. All of us at Monarch are grateful for your help. Our Heralds and our Speaker Planning Team have done a bang up job of getting the word out.

It’s not too late to:

• Register and attend.
• Encourage friends and family to register. (Everyone knows someone who is impacted by autism, who would be interested. Whom can you call to recruit?)
• Pay to sponsor someone else to attend.
• Re-Forward the flyer to your personal address book.
• Add the announcement below to your email footer.
• Help with delivery of flyers.
  

If you haven’t talked to Stephanie or Marion or Justin yet about what you can do to help promote, please contact one of them immediately! There is still much to do, and the week before is sometimes the best time to catch new attendees!

With love and appreciation,

John

garage sale

Mark your calendars, ladies and gents. The next Monarch garage sale is planned for Friday March 7, 9am-2pm. Soon you will be hearing from the Warehouse class about volunteer needs. For now, we're happy to take any stuff you don't need anymore and turn it into $$$.

-ranger

Meeting the Challenge of AD/HD

The Attention Deficit Disorders--Southern Region is sponsoring a conference called "Meeting the Challenge of AD/HD" at the Sheraton North Houston on February 15-16. The intended audience for the program is "Physicians, Advanced Practice Nurses, Psychologists, Nurses, Diagnosticians, Social Workers, LPCs, LMFTs, Educators, Parents of Children, Adults with AD/HD and others interested in AD/HD," and speakers will include Jefferson Prince, M.D., of the Harvard Medical School, and Chris Zeigler Dendy, an author who writes about teenagers and ADD and AD/HD.