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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">NAASLN’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><br>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Conveniently located near <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:City>, this regional conference will draw adult education practitioners, transition specialists, community college faculty, workforce counselors, disability advocates, and others from <st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State> to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Virginia</st1:State></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>The self-contained conference site and tight format lends itself to ample time for small-group discussions of how these breakthrough strategies apply to the evolving economy; issues affecting the new workforce; transition to postsecondary education and the workforce;
advocacy issues and techniques; webinars; leadership options; and more.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Access to the New Economy for Adult Learners with AD/HD and Asperger’s</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> will feature three plenary sessions:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div>
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<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>ADD and Entrepreneurism...A Curriculum that Works</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>! <br>
presented by Richard Cooper, Ph.D., Learning Specialist<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Asperger’s Syndrome, Part I: The Adult Education Class</FONT></SPAN></I></B><FONT size=3><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <br>
</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans -serif'">presented by Bevan Gibson, M.S. Sp. Ed., Director Southern Illinois Professional Development Center <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: black; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>A<I>sperger’s Syndrome, Part II: Transitioning to Postsecondary Education</I></FONT></SPAN></B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><br>
</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>presented by Melissa Arnott-Cox, Ed.D., L.P.C., C.A.C., <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Director</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Academic</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Success</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Rowan</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Glassboro</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NJ</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0p t" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Full registration of $250 covers a day-and-a-half of sessions, overnight accommodations, all meals, and 24-hour access to a hospitality suite. Day-only registration of $135 covers one day of sessions and two meals.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div>
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