October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. Below is a list of events from the International Dyslexia Association – Upper Midwest Branch. I have provided links to register for the events on the title of the event. Hope to see you at some point this month. Let me know if you are going to an event. I will definitely be at the screening of The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia with #1 and #2. It’s pretty embarrassing that I haven’t seen it yet! I have heard it excellent. There is also an interesting webinar about assessment if you have questions after reading my post yesterday, What do I do if my child is struggling with reading?
If you don’t live in Minnesota, please check the International Dyslexia Association website for events in your area.
Dyslexia Awareness Month Events
Learn more about dyslexia and other language-based learning disorders at one of these dynamic October events!
IDA-UMB Webinar: Deciphering the Tests
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
7 — 8 p.m.
Registration is free, but space is limited!
CEUs available for $10 fee.
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 Minnesota Licensed Psychologist and the director of diagnostic services at Groves Academy who has been working with children and adults with learning disabilities and attention disorders for nearly forty years.
Groves/IDA-UMB Workshop:
Why Word Origin and Structure are Critical to Reading Success
Thursday, October 3, 2013
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Groves Academy, 3200 Hwy 100 South, St. Louis Park, MN 55416
Registration is $30
Presented by Marcia Henry, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, San Jose State University Morphology, or the study of the structure and origin of words, describes how words are formed from building blocks called morphemes, which are the smallest units of meaning in a word. This session will provide an overview of morphology and why it is important to explicitly teach these skills to early or struggling readers.
IDA-UMB Webinar: School SLD Assessment vs. Private Neuropsychological Assessment
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
7 — 8 p.m.
Registration is free, but space is limited! CEUs available for $10 fee.
School testing and diagnostic neuropsychological testing are different in their purpose and depth, the specifics of their results and scope of their recommendations. In this webinar you will learn several key distinctions between the two types of assessment so that you can make an informed decision about which is best for your child.
Jennifer Bennett, M.S., Licensed Psychologist, focuses her work on neuropsychological and educational assessment. At BrainWorks, P.A., her private practice, she conducts comprehensive evaluations with people ages 5-100 who are experiencing difficulties related to learning, information processing, and cognitive development.
FREE SCREENING — The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia
Saturday, October 12, 2013
1 — 3p.m.
Groves Academy, 3200 Hwy 100 South, St. Louis Park, MN
Registration is free, but space is limited!
Join IDA-UMB and Groves Academy for a free screening of the HBO film, The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia, directed by Robert Redford’s son and the father of a child with dyslexia. The film provides personal and uplifting accounts of the dyslexic experience from children, experts and iconic leaders. The screening will be followed by comments and a question-and-answer session with Head of School, John Alexander, IDA-UMB President Kelly O’Rourke Johns, Executive Director of The Reading Center, Cindy Russell, and others.
The Reading Center’s Dyslexia Simulation: Walk in My Shoes
October 15, 2013
7 — 8:30 p.m.
Premier Bank, North Broadway and 37th Street, 3145 Wellner Drive NE, Rochester, MN
Is there a dyslexic person in your life? Do you teach a dyslexic student? You will learn what it can feel like to be dyslexic in school when you participate in this Dyslexia Simulation. The session will last 1 1⁄2 hours and is highly participatory. Appropriate for older teens through adults.
Film Screenings – Dislecksia: The Movie
Thursday, October 17, 2013
3 locations:
Carmike 10 Theatre, 230 Knollwood Drive, Rapid City, SD – 7 p.m.
Cinemark Century 14, 2400 South Carolyn, Sioux Falls, SD – 7 p.m.
TBA, Minneapolis, MN – 7 p.m
A powerfully touching and entertaining documentary that mixes humor and perspective with insight and analysis, DISLECKSIA: THE MOVIE explores many of the misconceptions surrounding dyslexia, while underlining the need for stronger awareness, early identification and social change.
No stranger to the condition, director Harvey Hubbell V explores dyslexia through a very human, personal lens, weaving his own lifelong experience, the research of scientists and the practice of educators, with the individual experiences of celebrities, politicians, and adults and children living with dyslexia.
Intergenerational, multicultural and socio-economically diverse, DISLECKSIA: THE MOVIE presents a complete picture and the most current information on dyslexia, promotes positive messaging, explores the power of family and community and is the first film to offer an alternative perspective of dyslexia as a learning difference, rather than a disability.
Panel Discussion: Successful Adults with Dyslexia
October 24, 2013
6:30 p.m.
Rochester Public Library Auditorium, 101 2nd Street SE, Rochester, MN
Registration is free but space is limited.
People with dyslexia are disproportionately represented among entrepreneurs and CEOs. Come to this panel discussion involving local individuals who are successful in their fields not despite of, but BECAUSE of dyslexia.
Parents, teachers and students (later grade school age and up) are encouraged to attend this discussion with local, successful adults who struggled with dyslexia throughout their schooling years, yet have found success in their careers. Hear their personal stories, learn some of their coping mechanisms and be inspired by how they became successful in a world of print.
Participants include: Dr. Brooks Edwards, Director, Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic; Lisa Stelzner, Senior Account Manager, Tempus Nova; Donn Sorensen, President, Mercy East Regional Medical Center
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