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Access Is The Best Medicine Fighting for Equality in Health Care
By: Barry Blitt
Hosted hors d’oeurves, wine, and soft drinks
Please RSVP to Ingrid Fischer : itischer@dredf.org
FEATURED GUEST
Sharon Lewis
Past Presidential Appointee, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Administration for Community Living & Past Senior Disability Policy Advisor to George Miller
EDWARD M. KENNEDY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Mary Lou Breslin
DREDF Co-Founder and Senior Policy Advisor for Doing Healthcare Justice for People with Disabilities
EMCEE
Yomi Wrong
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
About the Workshop
Learning math can be challenging, especially for students who have specific learning disabilities. Language skills, executive functioning, motor planning, and math-specific visual processing skills all play a role in acquiring math competency. Specific deficits and their resulting impact will be explored in this workshop. Methods will be presented that use the minimum language demands and whole-to-part, multi-modal strategies to help students express, relate, store, and retrieve information efficiently.
Chris Woodin has been with Landmark School since 1986. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and the Harvard Graduate School of education and is currently the mathematics department head at the Landmark Elementary/Middle School. He has published several articles, including a recent one through the Yale Centre for Dyslexia and Creativity. His latest book is entitled Multiplication and Division Facts for the Whole-to-Part Visual Learner. He presents nationally on topics involving multimodal math instruction and learning disabilities.