Teachers: Learn about evidence-based practices!
Join more than 20 renowned presenters for the annual fall conference of the Division for Learning Disabilities. Steve Graham, Karen Harris, Margo Mastropieri and Tom Scruggs, Rollanda O’Connor, Susan Osborne, Mitch Yell, and many others will hold workshops on teaching methods and other topics relevant for those who work directly with students with Learning Disabilities.
DLD’s unique format for the conference permits close interaction with presenters. In 3-hour sessions they not only present data but also teach participants how to use the practices and procedures they’ve studied. It’s a way of Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice and you can participate 1-2 November in San Antonio. TX.
The Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) will hold it’s annual conference in just a few weeks. Here’s the scoop about it.
Hello from the Council for Learning Disabilities! We are busy preparing for our 29th International Conference on Learning Disabilities to be held at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel (Myrtle Beach, SC) from October 12-13, 2007. We cordially invite you to attend this important event! With more than 100 sessions, you will hear high quality topical sessions that are responsive to important issues and inclusive of effective, research-based practices in the field of learning disabilities. As part of its theme for the 2007 conference, “Coastal Treasures: Collaboration and Research-based Teaching” this conference in particular will feature many exciting sessions on collaboration and co-teaching that you don’t want to miss!
The deadline for early registration for the 29th International Conference on Learning Disabilities is fast approaching. The cut off date for the “early bird” rate is September 12, 2007. The cost of conference registration increases significantly after this time. If you are planning to attend the conference and expect to stay at the conference hotel, I strongly encourage you to phone the hotel today to make your reservations (remember to ask for the CLD room block rate). Our room block is being held through September 11, 2007 and will sell out quickly! If you experience difficulty with your hotel reservations, please contact me.
For ease in registration go to:
https://www.cldinternational.org/Conference/2007/register.asp
For information about the hotel go to:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1726 (you must telephone the hotel and ask for the special CLD rate when you make your hotel reservations). The phone numbers are: 1-800-325-3535 or 843-918-5000.
KidsHealth, which is supported by Nemours Foundation, provides a very wide range of resources about child health. There are multiple articles aimed at children and youths with Learning Disabilities. Although they may be relatively superficial, they are written in a readable way and reasonably accurate.
Here’re links for entries for kids about learning problems and dyslexia and for teens about Learning Disabilities and dyslexia. (There are also resources directed to parents.)
Joseph Torgesen—a leading authority on reading psychology, reading instruction, and uses of technology in reading (as well as an all-around good guy)—has written a brief piece on what teachers should look for when considering educational software for reading. It’s at TeachingLD.org (scroll to the bottom of the page for “Expert Connection” and follow the links).
I’m not in my usual geographical space this AM. It’s also not my usual sonic space; I’m listening to a local radio station while I’m having coffee in Cool Beans on the west side of Richmond (VA, US). On the radio I just heard a 30-sec advertisement aimed at parents and seeking children who manifest a list of symptoms of or have been diagnosed as having ADHD for a study of an “investigational medicine.”
Perhaps advertisements such as these are common in larger metropolitan areas, but it was a new one for me.
Instructivist on LS
It was heartening (sort of like a little kid getting a pat on the head) to see that Instructivist caught the same story debunking learning styles from Great Britain that LD Blog covered recently. Wooohoo!
Instructivist’s coverage (but check the comments). (Link to a list of our earlier posts on this belt-level approach that’s based on virtually no evidence of effectiveness.)