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This seminar will focus on a series of Decisions on the issue of Dyslexia issued by the Massachusetts Bureau of Special Education Appeals during the...
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This workshop will empower teachers to plan their classroom instruction based on ongoing formative assessments for students with language-based learning disabilities. Emphasis will be given...
These courses are all offered during our Dyslexia Academy for Educators week and will provide research and strategies related specifically to dyslexia. Each course in...
These courses are all offered during our Dyslexia Academy for Educators week and will provide research and strategies related specifically to dyslexia and reading at...
These courses are all offered during our Dyslexia Academy for Educators week and will provide research and strategies related specifically to dyslexia and reading at...
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This professional development course explores diagnostic assessment, process writing, and specific instructional strategies for teaching basic writing skills to struggling writers, particularly students with language-based...
Child and adolescent mental health issues have been very much in the news lately as they affect schools, families, children themselves and society at large....
This one day seminar highlights specific strategies and scaffolding for teachers to enhance direct explicit instruction of students with language-based learning disabilities. It is a...
Comprehension is the understanding and interpretation of what is read. Research shows that explicit strategy instruction is particularly effective for students with language-based learning disabilities....
Phonological awareness, morphology, spelling, and vocabulary comprehension are interconnected skills necessary for literacy. Through a discovery-based word study approach to literacy instruction using structured questioning...
This one-day workshop will invite participants to consider the reality that reading comprehension success requires an interplay between the activation of prior knowledge, development of...
Learning math can be challenging, especially for students who have specific learning disabilities. Language skills, executive functioning, motor planning, and math-specific visual processing skills all...
Neuropsychological and educational assessments can provide powerful tools for understanding the cognitive and contextual factors that contribute to a student’s language-based learning challenges. However, bridging...
Writing is, by nature, a subjective activity. Given inherent differences in personal style, voice, and overall expression, it can be challenging to assess student progress...
Today’s teenagers are inundated with technology, growing up in what the world has deemed the “Digital Age.” More and more, colleges, universities, and schools are...
There are a myriad of demands that exist throughout the academic day that require students to effectively use social communication (pragmatic language) skills. For example,...
This two-day seminar will provide participants an overview of the essential elements required to bring students from struggling to successful readers. The two days will...
Individuals with language-based learning disabilities (LBLD) generally have significantly reduced language capabilities that make learning difficult. This course includes an overview of the characteristics of...
Language-based learning disabilities affect students’ abilities to complete language tasks in multiple domains, including reading, writing, listening, and speaking. This seminar will focus on receptive...
Research verifies the importance of phonemic awareness (the ability to think consciously about and manipulate individual sounds within words) as a precursor to successful reading....
This interactive course features innovative methods to manipulate numbers using minimum language demands. Students perform the four basic operations of whole numbers, fractions, percentages, and...
This seminar focuses on identifying students with receptive/expressive language disorders. Topics include: identification and characteristics of language-based learning disabilities (LBLD) and how LBLD relates to...
Full course description coming soon! GRADUATE CREDIT OPTION Participants may elect to add 1 graduate credit to this course. Graduate credit is an additional $125 and is...
This two-day seminar will provide practical strategies for helping students micro-unit the argumentative writing process. Topics covered will include how to break down a long-term...
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This two-day seminar presents an overview of federal special education law as well as an update of new special education law developments over the past...
Individuals with language-based learning disabilities (LBLD) generally have significantly reduced language capabilities that make learning difficult. As students with language-based learning disabilities move into middle...
This one day seminar models strategies to mediate language and to elicit responses from students with language-based learning disabilities. Without strategies to ensure the success...
Learn strategies for getting students interacting in a math class and learning the content in a non-threatening atmosphere. It is not uncommon as a special...
This seminar provides an overview of Landmark’s study skills model, as well as practical hands-on application of study skills strategies and teaching techniques. Topics include...
The National Reading Panel defines the five essential areas of reading as phonemic awareness, phonics (decoding), oral reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Within each area,...
This seminar will present and discuss the Landmark’s Six Teaching PrinciplesTM and how teachers can effectively implement the six principles in their classroom. All too...
Landmark School uses a five-step, sequential model for teaching writing skills that incorporates modeling and teaching metacognition throughout each step. This process includes brainstorming, organizing...
This seminar provides an overview of language-based learning disabilities and the comorbidity that exists between these specific learning disabilities and executive function challenges. Educators will...
Full course description coming soon! LEVEL This course is appropriate for educators and administrators at all levels....
Reading comprehension involves two primary skills: the ability to read words (word recognition) and the ability to understand the language created by these words (language...
