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Plus Value Awareness presents the third annual awareness special for October the busiest period of events for hidden differences than any other month in the awareness calendar.

This feature incorporates mini special features with specialised projects, information and other content to support each awareness event.

The October awareness special is supporting the following events: ADHD Awareness Month, Dyspraxia Awareness Week, Black History Month, Dyslexia Week, Dyslexia Awareness Month, World Mental Health Day, National Hate Crime Awareness Week and Invisible Disabilities Week

Historical background
October Awareness Special was launched in 2018 and at the time it expanded with specialised awareness event content for Dyslexia, ADHD & Dyspraxia. In addition it included supporting World Mental health Day and Invisisble Disabilities for all hidden differences including Autism & Social Anxiety. To coincide the launch year of the October special launched the Mental Health project "Don't Underestimate" was launched how focusing on how mental health affect differences. In 2019 the feature changed and become part of the feature Diverse Differences and expanded to support Black History Month and Hate Crime Awareness Week while launching a specialsed awareness project titles "Value Multicultrural Differences" to mark supporting Black History Month.

Awareness October in 2020
To coincide this year's online special for October special a family of new mini awareness projects is launched. "Valuing ADHD", " Valuing Dyslexia", "Valuing Dyspraxia" is a new family of the project who which enables society is to go beyond understanding and to value a person with differences better. As part of the addition of the new change the existing mini-project "Valuing Multicultural Differences" now with expanded information to improve valuing ethnic minority with hidden differences.

See below for details

ADHD Special 
Supprting ADHD Awareness Month
Featuring the ADHD edition of the projects, Advantage, Achievers, "Value is" 
and the new mini-project "Valuing ADHD"

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Multiculturual Special
Supporting Black History Month
Featuring multicultural edition of the Achievers project, 
along with the project "Valuing Multicultural Differences" when is expanded and enhanced for 2020.

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Dyslexia Special
Supporting Dyslexia Week and Dyslexia Awareness Month
Featuring the dyslexia edition of the projects, Advantage, Achievers, "Value is" 
and the New mini-project "Valuing Dyslexia"
 

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Dyspraxia Special
Supporting Dyspraxia Awareness week
Featuring the Dyspraxia edition of the projects, Advantage, Achievers, "Value is" 
and the New mini-project "Valuing Dyspraxia"

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Mental Health Special
Supporting World Mental Health Day
Featuring the special project "Dont Underestimate Differences & Mental Health"  
and elements from the project "Value is"

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Hate Crime Special
Supporting Hate Crime Awareness Week
Featuring the project "is this the right value" 

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Also the october awareness special supporting 
Invisible Disabilities Week

This awareness special is part of the Diverse Differences family of pop-up special features occurs though the year during in March, April, June, October and November. Supporting events such as International Women's Day, Autism Awareness Week & Month, Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Loneliness Awareness Week, Autistic Pride Day, World Day of cultural diversity and many more.

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This feature is part of diverse differences the special feature which support different awareness events related to hidden differences. Also the features showcases a special version of featured projects and campaigns which empowers differences as well as reminding the importance a smarter sense of value.



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