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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.
Our meetings are open to students ages 13-19 interested in joining Student Advisors For Education, so encourage your friends to join you. Parents are asked to drop off and pick up, but are welcome to come in and introduce themselves.
Location: San Francisco Friends School, 250 Valencia Street, San Francisco 94103
To be added to the SAFE mailing list Please sign up here. If you are a first-time attendee and have any questions, please email pen@parentseducationnetwork.org
Join us for lunch and a chance to hear Paul Orfalea speak about his story of personal “failures” that ultimately resulted in success.
Philanthropist, investing guru, Kinko’s founder, serial entrepreneur, and speaker Paul Orfalea struggled through his school years because of conditions we now recognize as Dyslexia and ADHD. Paul credits these “disabilities” as the blessings that allowed him to see the world differently from his peers.
Today Paul remains active in a number of businesses, including his work on the Investment Committee of West Coast Asset Management. He also shares the benefit of his business and life experience through his writings, speeches, and college courses. Through his family’s philanthropic efforts and public speaking on early care and education, intergenerational programs and learning differences, Paul strives to improve resources for the next generation of leaders and educators.
Co-sponsored by Parents Education Network
The Perfect Storm: ADHD, Dyslexia, and Executive Function Problems plus Executive Function in the Classroom
with Eric Tridas, M.D. and Sr. Mary Gilchrist Cottrill
Saturday, October 1, 9:00 am-3:30 pm (check-in begins at 8:30 am, lunch is included)
Ross School, 9 Lagunitas Road, Ross, CA 94957
Cost:
NCBIDA and PEN Members – $75
Non-members – $85
Walk-ins- $100
Join us for a day-long look at ADHD, Dyslexia, and Executive Function problems.
Dyslexia, ADHD, and anxiety frequently coexist. Often students do not respond to seemingly appropriate interventions because the impairment is the result of multiple factors and the intervention plan only addresses some of them. Dr. Tridas and Sr. Mary Cottrill will discuss the main contributing factors to these students’ problems and how they interact with each other to impair learning. In the morning, Dr. Tridas will review the symptoms of ADHD and anxiety and their impact on executive function and reading. In the afternoon, Sr. Mary Gilcrist will focus on how executive function deficits impact learning and give practical, strategic supports to assist students, teachers, and parents.
Eric Tridas, M.D. is the Medical Director of the Tridas Center for Child Development, a multidisciplinary practice in the Tampa Bay area. He is a developmental pediatrician who specializes in the diagnosis and management of handicapping conditions including ADHD, learning differences, dyslexia, autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities and other neurodevelopmental and behavioral problems. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine. Dr. Tridas edited a book for parents titled From ABC to ADHD: What Every Parent Should Know About Dyslexia and Attention Problems.
Sr. Mary Gilchrist Cottrill is the Director of Ave Maria Preparatory School, a day school for children with learning and behavior challenges in Florida. She designed and directed several schools for children with special needs. Sr. Gilchrist designed and directed Masters level programs in Special Education for Barry University and Ave Maria University. She designed and directed a public partnership with thirty-two schools in the West Coast of Florida. Sister is an Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame College in Ohio and has presented nationally and internationally on learning and behavior disorders.
Pre-registration ends Wednesday, September 28.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations in writing will be accepted until 5:00 pm on Thursday, September 29. In such cases, the registration fee will be refunded less a $10 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given for cancellations after 5:00 pm, Thursday, September 29.
Synopsis of the film:
A shock of recognition in social work school leads award-winning filmmaker Sarah Entine to explore how undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD have impacted three generations in her family, starting with her own struggles. With surprising candor, vulnerability and even a touch of humor, Read Me Differently reveals the strain of misunderstood learning differences on family relationships. It is a unique film that generates thoughtful discussion whether in a classroom setting, work environment or at home with family members and friends.
For additional information, please contact Amanda Szakats, amanda.szakats@gmail.com.
Dysgraphia & Handwriting:
Has Handwriting Become an Instructional Dinosaur?
Handwriting May be More Important Than You Think!
Speaker:
Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D., BCET, CALT-QI, LDT
Writing by hand is a written language skill – not just a motor skill – and it impacts early literacy, working memory, planning, composition – and even note-taking in adults. Handwriting is most effectively taught within a purposefully integrated langauge arts approach that includes the teaching of reading, spelling, and written expression (and their subskills).
Handwriting is a complex skill that involves both cognitive and motor skills. A foundational skill for literacy, it influences reading, written expression, and critical thinking. Sequential hand movements during handwriting activate brain regions associated with thinking, working memory, and language. Cross-disciplinary research shows that handwriting is a critical skill to teach from preschool to high school.
Explicit, integrated handwriting instruction is important! Manuscript, cursive, and keyboarding all have advantages for different students at different ages and stages. A note-taking study comparing keyboarding and handwriting showed better comprehension and retention of content for the handwriters. Elementary students composing by hand, not keyboarding, wrote faster, longer pieces with more ideas.
Literacy is the foundation for all learning! Handwriting instruction influences the development of reading and written expression by students of various ages and with diverse learning characteristics.
Learning objectives:
- Participants will be able to define dysgraphia.
- Participants will be able to discuss at which ages and stages the use of manuscript, cursive, and/or keyboarding is most likely to be an advantage for various students.
- Participants will be able to explain how handwriting is a written language skill – not just a motor skill.
- Participants will be able to give examples of strategies for integration of handwriting and keyboarding instruction into the teaching of reading and written expression.
Do you know – or do you work with – a student who struggles with handwriting? Have you wondered what will work well with these children and what they need?
If so, then………… ***This webinar is for You!
Introducing Nancy Cushen White
Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D., is a Clinical Professor, Division of Adolescant & Young Adult Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, and a member of the Dyslexia Research Center Team at University of California, San Francisco. She is also in private practice at the Dyslexia Evaluation and Remediation Clinic as a Board Certified Educational Therapist and a Dyslexia Consultant in private practice. She is a certified director of the Slingerland Multisensory Structured Language Instruction Comprehensive Teacher Training Course. And, she’s a fantastic person! You’ll enjoy listening to her.
Tickets are available until 1 pm on October 4, 2016
You will receive:
- A copy of the Powerpoint – a day or two before webinar
- Access to the audio/visual version of the webinar – available two weeks after webinar
Typical Q and A:
- What if I cannot make the start time for this webinar? You can join us at any time. Afterwards, you will receive a copy of the entire presentation, including the audio portion. This will enable you to review the material, or if necessary, catch up on anything you may have missed.
- Will I receive a copy of the Powerpoint prior to the start of the webinar? We will do everything in our power to make this happen!!
- Will there be background noise from the other people on the line that interferes with whether or not I am able to listen to the speaker? We do everything we can to prevent this. One way is that we mute everyone while the speaker is talking.
- Is there an opportunity for me to ask questions? Definitely YES! You may ask a question at any time by writing your question in the space provided. The speaker will answer it at an appropriate time. At some points, we will unmute specific participants who have their hand up to ask a question.
A webinar? What is it?
In a webinar, you stay at home, or wherever you want, and you use your own computer. You log in at the specific day and time — and then you listen and participate.
The vital aspect is that you must be preregistered. After you register here at Eventbrite, your name will be placed on the log with GotoWebinar and they will email you the instructions you need. These will contact a special log in code that you use to log in at the appropriate time. You may use a phone and/or a computer; however, the computer allows you to also see the PowerPoint Presentations. The phone or a USB microphone on your computer allows you to talk to the presenter and others.
“Understanding the Special Education Process: IEP Basics & Beyond”
DREDF Education Advocates provide an overview of the special education process, Section 504 and IDEA laws.
Where: Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA 94703 (campus is at Ashby BART station)
The Bernard Osher Foundation Education Center, First Floor
Date: 2nd Monday of the month (except August and December)
Time: 6:00 to 8:30pm (Pizza and drinks included!)
Must RSVP: iephelp@dredf.org or 510-644-2555 ext. 5227
Audience: This event is for LD professionals – psychologists, neurologists, special education attorneys, other school directors, etc. It is not intended for parents.
Dyslexia for a Day: The simulation is designed to help individuals gain a better understanding of and empathy for those children and adults who struggle with dyslexia.
Please RSVP: dgreen@prentice.org
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Community Advisory Committee (CAC)
Santa Clara County, Special Education Local Plan Area VII (SELPA VII)
Ruth Linton, MEd., ET certification, will give a presentation about
this invisible disability that effects 20% of the population, 1 in 5 :
-What is dyslexia and the warning signs
-What are the myths about dyslexia
-What can be done for someone with dyslexia
Dr. Stan Rose, SCUSD superintendent and Board trustees will also be
in attendance. Do not miss seeing the displays at the Santa Clara City
Library and the new Books Inc. store (Santa Clara Market Square) to
get your books and learn more about dyslexia today.
High School Students Encouraged to Attend
Translation available upon prior request