ADD support services are still inadequate

SUPPORT services for hundreds of children suffering from attention deficit disorder (ADD) are still inadequate, despite years of campaigning from parents on the frontline dealing with the damaging condition, it has been claimed.

While awareness of the disorder has increased in recent years, there is still a shortage of health staff available to counsel and work with children in areas such as anger management, said the chair of a parents’ support group.

Stephanie Mahoney, head of the Hyperactive Attention Deficit Disorder group, was speaking after a plea for more resources to tackle the conditions by the parents of Brian Willoughby, an ADD sufferer jailed for life for the brutal murder of Brian Mulvaney.