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Webinars 2023
Social-Emotion Well-Being in the Post-Covid World: Addressing the Needs of Individuals with Learning Disabilities
OCtober 24, 2023
SPEAKER: Kaye Ragland, Ed.D, LMFT, BCET, FAET
A brief description:
Help! I can’t cope! We have all been through the slow-motion trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic, and one way or another, it has impacted our well-being. Designed to provide attendees with useable post-pandemic information and intervention tools, this session explores common social, emotional, psychological, and academic responses to the pandemic. Specific techniques for addressing social, emotional, and psychological needs are included. Attendees will learn how to determine when referrals should be made. While framed in the context of the pandemic, topics included are applicable to social, emotional, and psychological issues for individuals with learning disabilities in general beyond the Covid-19 experience.
Qualitative Information: What about the quality, observations, and mistakes
September 12, 2023
SPEAKER: Kelli Sandman-Hurley, Ed.D
A brief description:
Kelli Sandman-Hurley, Ed.D. is presenting a webinar on how you can use the data in your child's testing. She'll go over Standard Scores, The Bell Curve, Percentiles, and Benchmarks. These are all useful quantitative measures and we rely on them heavily to make decisions for students, and sometimes we rely on them almost entirely. But do you ever feel like all those data points are missing something? In this presentation, we will take a look at what qualitative data can tell us about our students and if that information is sometimes more valuable than the numbers we rely so heavily on. We will analyze spelling mistakes to find out what the student needs to learn.We will take a look at reading miscues to find out what strategies the student is using, or not using, when they read. Lastly, we will take a look at behavioral cues to see if we can determine what is making the student anxious during academic activities.
Visual Processing, Decoding, and the Secret to Reading
August 3, 2023
SPEAKER: Bonnie Terry, M.Ed., BCET
A brief description:
Visual processing is the process of how your eyes receive information and the steps involved to process and understand that information. This involves eye-hand coordination, discrimination, and your ability to combine shapes and letters to form objects or words. This also involves your ability to visually remember seeing something, move your eyes from left to right efficiently, and more.
In this webinar, you will:
- Learn the 9 warning signs of visual processing problems
- Learn the 9 visual processing skills that impact your ability to read efficiently.
- Learn the secret that makes learning to read easier.
- Learn how to improve visual processing skills while learning how to accurately and confidently read and spell.
- Learn the role of technology and tools that can support students with visual processing challenges
- This is an explicit, systematic, and multi-sensory method.
This webinar is for parents, teachers, and tutors.
Structured Literacy & Dyslexia: Everything You Need To Know
July 18, 2023
SPEAKER: Jennifer Hasser, M.Ed.
During “Structured Literacy & Dyslexia: Everything You Need to Know,” Jennifer Hasser, M.Ed., will be discussing:
- Dyslexia: debunking myths, predictors, observable warning signs, comorbidity
- Structured Literacy: tenets of effective instruction, key terms (phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, oral language, etc.), helpful tips
- Course of action for schools, teachers, and parents
Opening Doors of Opportunity for ALL Students
May 16, 2023
SPEAKER: Andrew Stetkevich, M.A.
As educators discuss literacy in their education systems, they should focus on teaching all students to become accurate and analytical readers and writers. Students who are literate experience more professional opportunities, achieve better health and quality of life outcomes, and are better prepared to address barriers and problems facing countries and their educational systems (Concern Worldwide US, 2020). This webinar will define the problems and offer possible solutions to combat student illiteracy through the implementation of research-based instructional practices.
It Begins With A Sentence
April 17, 2023
SPEAKER: Judy Fuhrman
In this fast-paced, hands-on session, we will explore what makes sentence level work for reading and writing challenges. Participants will leave with practical ideas for teaching syntax which lays a foundation for literacy skills that students can apply throughout their educational experience, from kindergarten through high school.
Foundational Skill Components of Structured Literacy in the K-3 Classroom
March 14, 2023
SPEAKER: Dee Rosenberg
Foundational Skill Components of Structured Literacy in the K-3 Classroom: Participants will learn about the most current concerning teaching foundational skills of early literacy. Participants will learn about the components of structured literacy components that are grounded in science and provide teachers with the methods that they that should be implementing with young students. They will learn best practices and understand how Wilson Language programs can support their students in building a strong foundation in literacy that will enable them to become independent and motivated readers.
The Adult Side of Dyslexia
February 23, 2023
SPEAKER: Kelli Sandman-Hurley, Ed, Ed
Workshop Description: When people talk about dyslexia it is usually in the context of struggling young students. We tend to forget that children with dyslexia become adults with dyslexia. This presentation will provide an overview of what dyslexia is and what it isn't. Participants will also understand how adults describe dyslexia, how it has affected their lives and what we learned from them.
Reading Fluency: Related to Prosody ➔ Much More than Speed
January 25, 2023
SPEAKER: Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D.
Fluent reading is a combination of accuracy, prosody, and automaticity; together, they facilitate reading comprehension. Fluency is demonstrated during oral reading through ease of word recognition, appropriate pacing, chunking of words into meaningful phrases, and intonation. The ability to chunk words into meaningful phrases is related to syntactic awareness. Excessive focus on rate can interfere with, rather than augment, comprehension. A slower reading rate is sometimes necessary to support the construction of meaning. Fluency is a factor in both oral
and silent reading that can limit or support comprehension.