Course Listing

1 Day Workshops

Cognition, Language, and the Acquisition of Math Competency, In-Person – Summer Institute 2021

If you are signing up for this section, you are signing up for an in-person section with a limited number of spaces. This course can also be taken virtually. If you want to take the course virtually, you must register for the virtual section so we can ensure you receive login instructions.

The content for the virtual section and in-person section is the same.

COURSE LOGISTICS

• Event type: One-day workshop
• Section delivery mode: In-person. All recommended guidelines around social distancing, masks, hand washing, etc. will be followed and communicated to participants.
• Attendance: Live, on the date and time listed in the course information section.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

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 play a role in acquiring math competency. Specific deficits and their resulting impact will be explored. Learning and memory research tells us that multi-sensory integration is absolutely vital for children who have learning difficulties, as well as the best way to teach all students. Methods will be presented that use minimum language demands and whole-to-part, multimodal strategies to help students express, relate, store, and retrieve information efficiently.

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Identify prescriptive therapies that are presented within a case study video.
• Understand the benefits to whole-to-part multimodal processing and the use of  interactive graphic organizers.
• Create a Woodin Ladder Chart to produce accurate multiples of a given factor.
• Demonstrate the ability to add and subtract without counting.

LEVEL

This course is appropriate for educators at the elementary and middle school levels. 

MATERIALS

Please bring a laptop, as all necessary materials will be shared electronically.