Hi everyone! I am posting this on behalf of Rochelle Kenyon. Those of you actively involved with issues and accomodations related to adult learning disabilities may especially find this upcoming guest discussion interesting. Enjoy!
 
 
I am very pleased to announce that Nancie Payne will be a Guest Speaker on the LD Discssion List during the week of August 7-11, 2006.  
 
Beginning in July, the LD List had a thread being discussed  that eventually became the "LD Discrepancy Model" topic.  That topic is the one that I have asked Nancie to address during her week with us.  I want to ask subscribers to begin thinking about questions they want to propose to Nancie.  Since Nancie is already a subscriber on this List, she will see each of your suggestions as they are posted.
 
Please feel free to let your colleagues know of this wonderful opportunity to hear from and interact with one of the leaders in the field of adults with Learning Disabilities.  Information about subscribing to the List is at the bottom of this message.
 
Lastly, I am including Nancie Payne's resume for your information.
 
Nancie Payne, President of Payne & Associates, Inc. and the Northwest Center for the Advancement of Learning, is nationally recognized for thirty years of work in education and workplace-based services for children and adults with learning and cognitive disabilities.  She consults with adult education, literacy, basic skills and GED instruction programs as well as correction facilities, employment and training agencies, human service organizations, and business on ways to create productive learning environments and maximize the potential of those with special learning needs.  She has provided consultation in twenty-nine states and has developed and implemented the Payne Learning Needs Inventory and screening tools, facilitating long-term, system-wide change of service delivery models in the District of Columbia, Indiana, California, Oregon, Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vermont, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Illinois, Mississippi, Rhode Island, North Carolina and Washington.  She is a consultant for GED Testing Services. Ms. Payne has written numerous articles and book chapters on facilitating learning, assessment of special needs, transition to employment, and workplace accommodations.  In 2000 a Brookes publication entitled Meeting the Challenge of Learning Disabilities in Adulthood by Arlyn Roffman, Ph.D. features Ms. Payne's personal insight about the impact of learning disabilities.  Ms. Payne has a B.A. from the Evergreen State College in Liberal Arts, emphasis in Education-Administration and a M.S. from Chapman University School of Business and Economics in Human Resource Management and Organizational Development.  Her civic work includes serving on the President's Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities Taskforce, Washington D.C.; participating in a National Institute for Literacy National Congress; past member of the National Learning Disabilities Research & Training Center Advisory Board; and serving her third term as a member of the National Learning Disabilities Association Professional Advisory Board.  She is a member of the National Rehabilitation Association, the National Learning Disabilities Association, and the Commission on Adult Basic Education. She is currently an 18-year board member and past president of the Thurston County Economic Development Board of Directors and she serves on the Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council Board of Directors as Chairperson.
 
 
Peggy McGuire, M.A., 
Senior Research Associate, National Consultant, and
NIFL-Program Leadership and Improvement List Moderator
Center for Literacy Studies
The University of Tennessee
111 5th Street, PO Box 16
Mount Gretna, PA  17064
717-964-1341 (landline/fax)
215-888-6507 (cell)
mmcguire at utk.edu
 
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