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NAASLN’s 2004 National Conference
Embracing Dialog for Improved Services --
Authentic Conversations Leading To Actions
March Sunday, 7 - Tuesday, 9, 2004
Pre-Conference Sessions: Saturday, March 6
Wyndham Harbor Island Hotel, Tampa, FL
Visit www.naasln.org for additional information and conference flier
It is not too late to register! Flights are still cheap!
LOOK at the Incredible Conference Sessions ----->
Saturday, March 6, 2004
Pre-Conference Sessions:
Learning a Living: Connecting Learning and Social Skills in the Workplace
Having a hard time getting your LD clients to succeed in a work environment?
Well-known experts in disabilities and employment will offer an array of tips
and techniques to help you motivate adults with specific learning needs to
improve employment potential. This session will cover building successful work
skills by connecting education, job-training, and the development of social
skills to the real world. Help your client to:
• Build better basic and job readiness skills
• Improve personal insight
• Recognize the importance of developing social skills
• Learn to advocate for their needs
• SUCCEED IN THE WORKPLACE!
Dale Brown, Carol Calzaretta, and Ron Hume
Transitioning Teens with Disabilities to the World of Post-Secondary School
or Work
Teenagers inevitably grow into adults, but are they ready to be
productive in the adult world?
This session will address the basic issues about helping our teens with
disabilities move into young adulthood, the required early planning, and
interventions that can support positive transitions. The skilled and experienced
presenters of this preconference session will take a ‘hands-on’ approach to offering
ways to:
• Discuss resources for developing healthy interdependent and independent
life skills relevant to teen developmental phases
• Identify resources for reviewing and determining options that exist post
high-school
• Discuss ways to develop vocational or post-secondary plans that will
prevent leaving school prior to completion
• Better prepare teens with disabilities for life after high school!
Robyn A. Rennick, Patricia Walsh, and Althea O'Haver
Learning Disabilities with the Adult ESOL Learner
Do the ""stuck"" ESOL learners in your program have LD? If so, how can you
help them to learn?
In this comprehensive session, ESOL - LD expert Robin Schwarz will offer
participants an introduction to:
• How learning disabilities are manifested in ESOL
• Research on ESOL and LD
• LD screenings for ESOL
• Practical techniques for supporting adults with specific learning needs
• Effective teaching techniques
Robin Schwarz
Sunday, March 7, 2004
Conference Welcome and Keynote
Keynote Speaker
The Dynamics of Dialog: Joining in Conversations that Move Visions into
Realities
Frank Bowe, Ph.D.
Concurrent Sessions:
Reading? How Does the Brain Do That? PLUS Five Decoding Steps for Reading
and Spelling
New research on the brain and learning helps us understand why some learning
activities are more effective than others and why multi-sensory targeted
instruction is necessary. Participants in this session will be able to apply more
effective and targeted instructional activities to increase learner's reading
efficiency. This session will also provide five important ""word attack""
skills to accelerate the learner's ability to dissect and pronounce
multi-syllable words, both for reading and spelling
.
Bud Pues
Developing a Client Operated E-Bay Company as the Vehicle for Integrating
Vocational Services, Workplace Preparation Skills Development and Adult Basic
Education with Clients Having Severe Learning Impairments
This session will describe and provide samples of
documents/practices used in the establishment of a client centered “E-Bay
Company” as an independent fiscal entity within a community mental health agency.
The intent of program development is to provide individuals having severe
learning impairments with contextual employment foundation skills training,
computer skills development, and ABE instruction within a self-sufficient fiscally
solvent “company.” Visit us on E-Bay at Stellarsellers8.
Richard Gacka
Learning a Living
Many of your clients have learning disabilities. This session will include
information on unlocking the disability traps that get in the way of applying
and interviewing for jobs, discussing and disclosing a disability, reasonable
accommodations and how to get them, along with ideas for creative job hunting
and why it is especially important for your clients with disabilities.
Dale Brown
Advocacy Techniques that Work! Ways to Impact Services to Benefit Persons
with Disabilities
In this session, Andrew Imparato will discuss advocacy techniques that are
effective for people who are trying to drive systems change for people with
disabilities and their families. Imparato will describe strategies for working
with the media, policy makers, elected officials, coalition partners, the
business community, funders and others to improve the lives of people with
disabilities.
Andrew Imparato
Recovering LD: Applying Recovery Principles to Getting Beyond LD and On With
Life
Is it possible to recover from being LD?
This session will provide an overview of the principles of recovery and how
these principles can be used to help basic skill and literacy students get
beyond being a struggling learner and get on with being a successful learner,
worker, parent, and community member.
Laura Weisel
A Technical Assist for Learning
Take advantage of this exciting
opportunity to participate in a live national web conference focused on the role of
technology for adults with special needs.
Debra Watkins
How Emerging Technologies Will Transform Education for Persons with Specific
Learning Needs
This session will discuss the impact that new technologies will have on the
delivery and accessibility of education to persons with specific learning
needs. Participants will gain a broader understanding of what the technology
revolution will do for service providers and what new technologies are in the
pipeline to support different types of learners.
Jonathan Blitt
Don't Tell Me How To Study: Teach Me How
Learn how to teach a systematic way of studying within your content
curriculum. This presentation will describe, with hands-on practice, the different
ways to study for multiple choice, matching and true false tests, as well as
strategies for taking these types of tests. Multisensorial techniques for
learning dates and diagrams will also be taught.
Robyn A. Rennick
Research, Recidivism, and Reentry: Building Transitional Programs for
Offenders
The presenters will examine the CEA 3 State Recidivism study with an emphasis
on Ohio data. Local data will be analyzed to develop a profile of offenders
needing transitional services and specific transitional services related to
special needs.
Ange Siemer and Alan Toops
Plenary Sessions:
The GED - Ensuring Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities: From Request
to Approval
This team presentation targets supporting
individuals with disabilities in obtaining testing accommodations on the GED
including:
• Understanding and using the form L-15, for individuals with LD
and/or ADHD, and form SA-001, for individuals with health-related, physical
and/or emotional disabilities
• Submitting the needed and appropriate documentation
• Identifying and justifying
requested and specific accommodations
At the end of the session there will be time for a dialog between session
presenters and participants in an effort to better understand GED Test
accommodation procedures and the process from request to approval.
Frank Bowe, James Koller, Mario Payne, Nancie Payne, Neil Sturomski, RoseMary
Watkins
Learning Disabilities and the Adult ESOL Learner
This session will describe how LD is manifested in 2nd/other Language
learners, how LD impacts learning across languages, and how it can be reasonably
recognized in adult ESOL learners. The afternoon session will address suggestions
for effective techniques for teaching ESOL learners suspected of having LD.
Robin Schwarz
Illiteracy in Adults: Why Adults are Nonreaders
In understanding the many reasons why adults do not read, we can be better
prepared to help these special needs individuals transition from illiteracy to
literacy. Garth Vaz, M.D. is a practicing physician at Sievers Medical Clinic
in Gonzales Texas. He is a Family Practitioner that specializes in Learning
and Behavioral Disorders in Adults and Children. Learn why he treats the
inability to read as a symptom.
Garth Vaz
Success Attributes in Adults with LD
What are the consequences of having a learning disability (LD)? How does
having a LD impact education, work, family, and community? How do adult
education and other service programs help adults with LD achieve success? Session
participants will have an opportunity to review some relevant research and engage
in discussion in response to these questions and possibly separate myth from
reality.
Jeff Fantine and Rochelle Kenyon
Sunday, March 7, 2004 • Dialog Sessions:
Dialog on Employment of Persons with Disabilities
Dale Brown
Dialog on How to Advocate for Persons with Disabilities at the Local, State,
and Federal Level
Andrew Imparato
Dialog on Supporting Persons with Specific Learning Needs in Adult Basic and
Literacy Programs
Cheryl Keenan
Book Signing / Networking Reception
Monday, March 8, 2004
Plenary Sessions:
A Dialog with a Washington Insider—What does it mean and how does it work?
Now really, how does the appropriating committee differ from the authorizing
committee? On what calendar does each operate? When and where can
practitioners influence what goes on? What is “report language” and how is it different
from “legislative language?” What is a “Conference Committee” and what does
it do? How can NAASLN members and State Directors hook up? Lennox is an
adult educator (teacher/tutor--literacy volunteer, ABE, ESL, AHS, and GED--,
local program manager, state staff person) and now works for the state directors
in Washington. Ask him anything about how the Washington process works.
Lennox McLendon
The Impact of Trauma and Human Crisis on the Brain, Life, and Learning
Life often presents situations that are way too intense and awful for the
human mind and body to comprehend and survive. Yet, life goes on. This session
will discuss how traumas and crisis impact a person's life, learning,
relationships, and work. Insights from experience and clinical practice will be
addressed along with resources available for help.
Kay Werk
Reframing TANF Services -- How Case Workers, Teachers, and Vocational
Training Can Maximize Client Success By Identifying and Addressing LD
>From the OCR Ruling to staff development, screening, day-to-day
interventions, and measuring outcomes, this session will focus on the progress and
learnings of states who have taken the lead to partner adult education services with
providers of TANF services. When 'customer service,' personal empowerment, and
success for all are the underpinnings of how services are provided to persons
with specific learning needs -- it is amazing how much impact programs can
actual make to move nonworkers into worker status.
June Crawford, Jeff Fantine, Laura Weisel
Social Skill Development - The Real Secret to Success
Research has shown that more people have problems in the workplace because of
difficulty getting along with supervisors and coworkers than they do with
actual job performance. We also know that individuals with LD, ADHD and other
special learning needs often have residual social skill problems that often
create more barriers for the individual than the primary impairment of the
disability. This session will explore these challenges and provide participants with
curriculum information on teaching essential social skills to adults with
special needs. Come learn how the development of these skills will help
individuals become more successful at school, at work, in families and in the
community.
Ron Hume
Concurrent Sessions:
Tools for Initiating Dialog: Service Providers and Consumers
This presentation will provide an overview of a website that was specifically
developed to initiate dialog between service providers and consumers. The
site targets the need for service providers to better serve persons with
disabilities. This session will show how this valuable tool can be used to address
consumer questions and needs about entering employment on a variety of topics
such as disclosure and benefits.
Pat Eakes and Richard Johnson
Vision and LD - A Look at The Effects of Long-Term Vision Problems
I'm not a doctor, what does vision have to do with me?" Choose this session
to learn what vision is in the context of learning, how vision affects
learning, how to tell when your student has a vision problem and what you can do to
help if they do.
Frances A. Holthaus
Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder AND Chemical
Dependency: DANGER AND OPPORTUNITIES
Individuals affected by learning disabilities and Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder are disproportionally represented in adult chemical dependency
treatment. This session will provide an overview of learning disabilities
and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, explore prevalence rate data,
and discuss co-morbidity dynamics and accommodated treatment strategies.
Ron Hume
Sustaining Dialogues: Learning Strategies, Methods, and Tools for Teaching
Tutors
Learn about the delivery of a 17.5 hour orientation course for adult
beginning readers that engages them in exploring learning strategies, examining
teaching methods, and experimenting with technical tools. See how this course
encourages adult beginning readers and tutors to develop relationships that support
learning-related dialog about goals, strategies and progress.
Deborah Young
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) - What is it and How
Can it Help Me and the Student/Clients I Serve?
EMDR is an incredible process that has grown from being 'on the edge' to a
regular therapy for persons who have suffered trauma or for persons who just
want to improve their future. Join this dynamic discussion and learn about an
intervention that might be just what your clients, family members, or you --
yourself -- might need to move from being a victim to living life as a victor.
Kay Werk
Transition Needs of Students with Emotional Disturbance
David Osher
Rewiring the Brain after TBI/ABI Through Teletherapy Technology
Amazing! Cognitive processing can improve through controlled cognitive
stimulating activities via the Internet in the home or lab setting. These
cognitive activities focus on the implicit learning domain of the brain. Dr. Hatfield
will be demonstrate his unique cognitive stimulation techniques
interactively with the participants.
John Hatfield
Re-thinking Systems: Designing Effective Special Education and Literacy
Programs for to Support Persons with Specific Learning Needs
The presenters will preview how special education and literacy services are
delivered to adult inmates. Special Education and inmate peer tutoring a
variety of prison systems based on best practices
Kathleen White, Steve Steurer, Ange Siemer, Russell Smith
Emotions! Understanding the Role Emotions Play in Learning and Work
Do the students in your program move out of one emotional crisis and into
another? Do they begin your program with great gusto and then drop out? Do they
often forget information they just learned last week? This session will
offer an understanding of how emotions are brain functions that are core to all
learning, why childhood negative educational experiences continue to impact
adult learning, and what actions you can take to immediately begin to help
learners struggling manage their old baggage and fears!
Laura Weisel
Bridging the Gap Module: An Interactive Overview of Best Practices for
Instructing Adults Who are Blind or Visually Impaired -- Part I
In this interactive and thought-provoking
session participants will learn to distinguish between fact and fiction in
discussing the capabilities of people who are visually impaired. Eye conditions
will be discussed in terms of the functional implications of vision loss.
Participants will be introduced to effective approaches for meeting and offering
assistance to an adult who is blind or visually impaired.
Tina Tucker, June Crawford, Karen Wolffe
Brain Based Learning
This session will present a
synthesis of the latest in cognitive research. Also detailed in this presentation
is how an educational system utilizes this research to increase
student-learning outcomes. PowerPath and Test Edge Programs will be discussed.
Russell Smith
No Shame! Advocacy Training for Adults with Learning Disabilities and
Persons Who Work with Adults with LD
Learning differences when not addressed become learning disabilities. The
first step in becoming an advocate -- whether for yourself or for another -- is
to be informed. Select this session and learn about LD and how to advocate
for what you need!
Beth Butterworth and Ann Murr
How to Turn Problems into Solutions
Have you heard that the Chinese word for "crisis" is made up of two
characters, one meaning "danger," and the other meaning "opportunity"? Many programs
face challenges when implementing systems that support adults with learning
disabilities and other special needs. It's often easy to put an end to good
initiatives once barriers are uncovered. In this session, we will look at some
ways to turn your challenges into solutions.
Jeff Fantine
Empowering the Special Needs Student to Transition Successfully to the
Challenging World of Adulthood
This
session will provide information on assessing, gaining, and sharing information with
pre-adult special needs students in order to help them develop a plan and
advocate for a successful future. This session will include both group
activities and hands-on activities.
Althea Baysinger O'Haver
Assessment to Promote Classroom Success for Disabilities
Help crumble the myth that standardized testing will fail learners with
special needs. Participants will focus on five new CASAS assessment
instruments—Life and Work, Functional Writing, Citizenship Interview, Computer-Based Tests,
and POWER—and learn how each can provide classroom success for adults with
disabilities in learning, hearing, vision, language, and intellectual functioning.
Jane Egüez, Virginia Posey, and Cheryl Sandholm
Transitional Time, Transitional Lives: Education Opportunities for Inmates
with Special Needs
This session will provide an overview of the transition process that is
available to juveniles and young adults with special needs in correctional
facilities. Participants in this sessions will identify: The transition process and
related planning tools; Instructional practices that support transiting, Related
career transition, community resources and pre-employment assessments that
can be used to develop the student's transition plan.
Kathleen White and Be Stoney
Open Dialog – Overview and Outcomes of the Learning Disability Regional
Forums: An Interdepartmental Collaboration sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), Division of Adult
Education and Literacy (DAEL)
DAEL coordinated with the U.S. Department of Education/Office of Special
Education & Rehabilitation Services, the U.S. Department of Labor/Office of
Disability & Employment Policy and the National Institute for Literacy in planning
meetings on learning disabilities. DAEL then sponsored a series of regional
forums on the topic of developing policy to better serve adults with learning
disabilities. This presentation will showcase the efforts of those meetings and
state policy development in learning disabilities following DAEL’s regional
forums. Initially, Neil Sturomski, the learning disabilities consultant at the
DAEL meetings, will provide an overview of the regional forums. Following
that overview, a number of state representatives, who attended one of the five
forums, will provide their current state efforts and outcomes. An open dialog
about the meetings and the development of state policy to better serve adults
with learning disabilities will follow.
Neil Sturomski. Jeff Fantine. Robin Schwarz, Rochelle Kenyon, Patti White
Reading Alert! Multisensory Structured Language Education: Practical, and
Accredited, Curriculum for the Dyslexic
The research is
overwhelming: the dyslexic (ADD/SLD) learner has a different nervous system
that requires different teaching techniques. The International Structured
Language Education Council (MISLED) has developed an accreditation program to
recognize and accredit MSLE programs that have all the necessary components for
teaching to the dyslexic (et. al) neurological learning pattern. Training
through such programs is a necessity for teachers if we are to truly meet these
individuals needs. The founder of The Hardman Technique and the founder of LEAD
(Literacy Education and Academic Development), two programs accredited by
IMSLEC, will discuss the characteristics of MSLE programs, the accreditation
process of IMSLEC, the goals of IMSLEC and the process for becoming an MSLE
educator.
Robyn A. Rennick
Bridging the Gap Module: An Interactive Overview of Best Practices for
Instructing Adults Who are Blind or Visually Impaired -- Part II
Challenge yourself! During this interactive session, participants will be
guided through techniques and activities that are pertinent for the adult
literacy environment. Presenters will demonstrate, and then invite participants to
model, techniques for offering verbal and physical assistance. The use of
blindfolds is optional. Adaptive aids and appliances for use in the classroom will
be available for practice. Participants will benefit from handouts, resources,
and great takeaways!
Tina Tucker, June Crawford, Karen Wolffe
Help! I Can't Show What I know on Tests!
Many learners find that anxiety about tests or other performance evaluations
keeps them from doing their best. This session overviews a process developed
to guide the client in discovering the sources of their concern, and learning
strategies to deal with them, including cognitive-behavioral therapies,
relaxation techniques and learning how to learn.
Lynn Cook
Spanish GED 2004
This session will be
an abbreviated version of the Spanish GED training conducted in Chicago and
offer participants a summary of the changes to the Spanish GED. The
presentation will be in English, however the handouts will be in Spanish.
Debra Watkins
Screening for Auditory and Visual Perceptual Difference with Reading
Disadvantaged Students
Dr. Frank McKane
Grant Writing 101
Whether you are a novice or seasoned
pro, this 'How To' session will explore tips for researching, writing, and
formatting grants that get results. Receive information on documentation,
budgets, and proposal evaluation. Particular attention will be paid to TRIO grants
from the US DOE. Come with ideas. Learn how to adapt these techniques to
meet your needs.
Brenda
Brown and Patricia M. Walsh
The Facts: What People with Cognitive Disorder Really Need to Succeed
This session is not about motivating customers or clients -- it's about
identifying and providing the critical services up front and in a manner the client
or customer can benefit from. Come learn about the underlying deficiencies
that create barriers and restrict ability to progress and understand methods
that foster motivation and promote success!
Nancie Payne
Changing the Way We Think about Assessments: CASAS' POWER and PowerPath to
Basic Learning
This session will provide participants with an overview of the new CASAS
POWER assessment for adult with disabilities and PowerPath to Basic Learning. The
presenter will lead attendees through a re-examination of the role assessment
and screening should play in providing adults with disabilities personal
insight into the way they learn, cope, and live their daily lives. Attendees will
have an opportunity to develop a working model of assessing adults with
disabilities, differently!
Alan Toops
Tuesday, March 9, 2004
Plenary Sessions:
Bridges to Practice - Open Dialog
June Crawford
Teaching Math to Those Who Hate Math
This session will provide participants with techniques to help adults who
have defined themselves as 'math-haters'. The presentation will include
demonstrations of unique activities designed to engage the 'math-haters' in ways that
make math less threatening and even fun.
Richard Cooper
Engaging Employers - Our Primary Customer
This session will present a model business to business approach that connects
qualified job seekers to employers who have job openings. Through this
workshop, participants will gain an overview of essential function analysis
combined with job seeker KSAs and soft skill leading to quality placements. Using
this model identification of reasonable accommodations and procedures for
implementation becomes a natural part of the placement process.
Nancie Payne
It Didn't Just Go Away Because They Grew Older: How Dyslexia/ADD/SLD Affects
Adults
Because of continuing deficits in perception, language and communication,
many dyslexic/ADD/SLD individuals continue to experience difficulties in
adulthood. The speakers will discuss ways that professionals and paraprofessionals
working with this populations may assist them in recognizing and overcoming
these barriers to success. Tools such as summary of Meeting and isolation Finding
Model will be presented. Training in a Multisensorial Structured Language
Education Program will be discussed.
Patricia K. Hardman
Concurrent Sessions:
Bridges to Practice - Open Dialog
June Crawford
Memory Tools for Forgetful Adults: Ways to Remember What You Learn
Many adult learners complain that they are not able to remember what they
read or study. In this session the presenter will demonstrate a variety of
memory techniques that have been found to be useful with adults, especially those
who learn differently. Mnemonic clues, stacking and environmental triggers
will be demonstrated.
Richard Cooper
"Working” with Learning Disabilities: Dialog as Key to Success on the Job
Adults with LD can do well in the world of work! What does it take?
Self-assessment and strategic planning are critical, often in dialog with a skilled
counselor or teacher. Acquire the tools needed to help adults recognize
strengths and struggles, develop useful accommodations and strategies, understand
legal issues, and develop self-advocacy.
Margaret Lindop
I Can See It -- It's My Comprehension I'm Worried About!
Comprehension has to do more with connections in the brain and reflection.
This session will discuss the four dimensions of learning, the four levels of
cognition, and the magic seven. Participants will be able to more effectively
diagnosis comprehension problems and provide more effective learning
activities to met learner needs.
Bud Pues
Using Popular Education Groups: Can we Develop a Health Promotions Strategy
for Psychiatric Consumer/Survivors?
Through dialog and discussion, participants will gain an understanding of the
theories or 'conscietization' and explore the application of these ideas to
creating challenging and empowering learning opportunities for vulnerable and /
or disadvantaged persons with a long-term mental illnesses.
Lea Caragata
How Do I help My Clients with Dyslexia/ADD/SLD Succeed?
Teenagers inevitably grow into adults, but are they ready to be productive in
the adult world? This session will address the basic issues about helping
our teens with disabilities move into young adulthood, the required early
planning, and interventions that can support positive transitions. This session will
take a ‘hands-on’ approach to offering ways to discuss resources for
developing healthy interdependent and independent life skills relevant to teen
developmental phases, identify resources for reviewing and determining options that
exist post high-school, discuss ways to develop vocational or post-secondary
plans that will prevent leaving school prior to completion and better prepare
teens with disabilities for life after high school!
Robyn A. Rennick
Special Education and Juvenile Justice
David Osher
Closing Session
Partnerships and Collaboration - Taking the Steps to Envision and Create
Our Future In Times of Uncertainty
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