IDA Annual Reading, Literacy, and Learning Conference
Nov. 6-9, 2013New Orleans, LA
Links to conference information and registration may be found on the IDA website:
http://www.interdys.org/
Monday, September 16, 2013
IDA Upper Midwest Branch Webinar
IDA Webinar: Deciphering the Tests
Registration is free, but space is limited!
CEUs available for $10 fee.
To Register Click Here
The information provided in tests and assessments is invaluable in determining an LD learner’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses and helps inform the best approaches to the child’s education. This presentation will review what tests commonly are used to assess learning difficulties, what they mean and how parents and educators can utilize them to develop effective plans for special education.
Speaker, Ray Boyd, is a M.S.E, Minnesota Licensed Psychologist at Groves Academy. Ray Boyd has been working with children and adults with learning disabilities and attention disorders for nearly forty years. As the director of diagnostic services for Groves Academy, Ray has completed more than 5,000 evaluations. In his work, Ray provides psycho educational assessments for children and adults, and consultation services for parents and educators.
From IDA--Upper Midwest Branch email. More info at the website.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Webinar: What Every Kindergartner Should Know with Arlene Sonday
IDA-UMB Webinar: What Every Kindergartner Should Know with Arlene Sonday
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
7 -- 8 p.m.
Registration is free, but space is limited!
CEUs available for $10 fee.CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Connect research to age-appropriate activities and strategies that weave learning into the fabric of play while providing a roadmap for building the broad foundation that leads to developing successful readers. Overview activities include rationale, strategies and suggestions for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness, alphabet, prewriting and writing, shapes, colors, numbers, rapid serial naming, picture and listening comprehension, and beginning phonics.
Presenter Arlene Sonday is the author of Sonday System. Her many career accomplishments include:
. Teacher training - U.S., India, UK, Pakistan, China, Thailand,
Egypt, Kuwait, Canada, Jamaica.
. Honorary Fellow, Orton-Gillingham Academy, Chair of Organizing
Committee/first President.
. Certified teacher trainer, IMSLEC.
. Board Member, Class Instructor, Orton-Gillingham of Minnesota.
. Adjunct Instructor, Hamline University since1988; Fairleigh
Dickinson University, NJ, 14 years; Nicholls State University, Thibodaux,
LA, 3 years
. Past VP of IDA; recipient Margaret Byrd Rawson Lifetime Achievement
Aware, 2009; member since 1969.
source: IDA-UMB website. http://ida-umb.org/pages/calendar/detail.cfm?EventID=235
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
7 -- 8 p.m.
Registration is free, but space is limited!
CEUs available for $10 fee.CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Connect research to age-appropriate activities and strategies that weave learning into the fabric of play while providing a roadmap for building the broad foundation that leads to developing successful readers. Overview activities include rationale, strategies and suggestions for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness, alphabet, prewriting and writing, shapes, colors, numbers, rapid serial naming, picture and listening comprehension, and beginning phonics.
Presenter Arlene Sonday is the author of Sonday System. Her many career accomplishments include:
. Teacher training - U.S., India, UK, Pakistan, China, Thailand,
Egypt, Kuwait, Canada, Jamaica.
. Honorary Fellow, Orton-Gillingham Academy, Chair of Organizing
Committee/first President.
. Certified teacher trainer, IMSLEC.
. Board Member, Class Instructor, Orton-Gillingham of Minnesota.
. Adjunct Instructor, Hamline University since1988; Fairleigh
Dickinson University, NJ, 14 years; Nicholls State University, Thibodaux,
LA, 3 years
. Past VP of IDA; recipient Margaret Byrd Rawson Lifetime Achievement
Aware, 2009; member since 1969.
source: IDA-UMB website. http://ida-umb.org/pages/calendar/detail.cfm?EventID=235
Monday, February 4, 2013
Brock Eide at Groves Academy Workshop
Feb 15 Workshop: Dyslexia - A Celebration of Talents
"Groves Academy is pleased to welcome Brock Eide, author of the book The Dyslexia Advantage, to our Annual Symposium on Friday, February 15th. Brock will describe the brain science research that reveals that people with dyslexia have a unique brain structure and organization, which often leads to excellence is such areas as mechanical reasoning (required for architects and surgeons), interconnected reasoning (artists and inventors), narrative reasoning (novelists and lawyers) and/or dynamic reasoning (scientists and entrepreneurs).
The cost per person is $75, and includes breakfast and lunch."
Text from Groves website.
To register or for more information, please visit Groves website.
http://www.grovesacademy.org
"Groves Academy is pleased to welcome Brock Eide, author of the book The Dyslexia Advantage, to our Annual Symposium on Friday, February 15th. Brock will describe the brain science research that reveals that people with dyslexia have a unique brain structure and organization, which often leads to excellence is such areas as mechanical reasoning (required for architects and surgeons), interconnected reasoning (artists and inventors), narrative reasoning (novelists and lawyers) and/or dynamic reasoning (scientists and entrepreneurs).
The cost per person is $75, and includes breakfast and lunch."
Text from Groves website.
To register or for more information, please visit Groves website.
http://www.grovesacademy.org
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