Best Practices in Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Postsecondary Education
The How-Not-To-Get-Sued Model vs Cultural Competency
These interactive and dynamic workshops focus on the legal, practical and pedagogical implications for effectively teaching and accommodating students with disabilities, and explore the intersection of legal requirements, cultural competency and best teaching practices.
The workshops emphasize practical strategies for addressing disability-related [...]
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The Help Group’s Summit 2007 Advances and Best Practices in Autism, Learning Disabilities and ADHD will take place on Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
An in-depth and thought-provoking Summit will feature the nation’s leading researchers, educators and clinicians presenting state-of-the-art neurodevelopmental research and best practices in [...]
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What Do Teachers Need to Know About Language?
Two-Day Workshop: July 18th and 19th, 2007
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
617-627-4874
617-627-3827
ase.tufts.edu/crlr/
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RAVE-O: A systematic approach to reading fluency and comprehension
Hosted by The Center for Reading and Language Research, Tufts University
June 26-27, 2007, 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Teachers, special educators, and reading specialists will be trained to use RAVE-O, a curriculum for primary-age students using a systematic approach to reading fluency and comprehension. RAVE-O combines our best knowledge about [...]
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The Shelton School is launching Shelton Online Learning with the course Dyslexia and Related Disorders. This course describes processing disorders – causes, characteristics, and instruction. The brain’s role in reading and processing information is addressed as well as the evaluation of mental/perceptual/academic abilities. The learning processes of children with and without perceptual problems are compared. [...]
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© 2002 Richard Wanderman
Richard Wanderman presenting informally to a group of special education teachers in New Delhi, India.
Introduction
I’ve been presenting and leading workshops, mostly on technology and learning disabilities for the past 18 years. In the process I’ve done quite a bit of travel both domestically and internationally, presented to all kinds of groups both [...]
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