Proven Strategies for... • Increasing sequencing and memory • Reading ability including instant improvement • Handwriting • Increasing words written • Math skills • Improving processing speed • Reducing anxiety, including test anxiety • Stopping reversals In this ground-breaking seminar, professionals from many different perspectives come together to learn how their interventions integrate to remediate some of the more complicated dysfunctions seen in education today. Remediation is addressed through the building blocks of mind and body health including nutrition and psychology disciplines, neurodevelopment, sensory-motor development from occupational therapy, physical therapy and language development. Finally, specific educational approaches based on Structured Literacy and the Knowledge and Practice Standards of the International Dyslexia Association will be used to demonstrate how the student with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia can learn reading, writing, and math. Leave with knowledge you can implement the next day to help students in and out of the classroom: • Improve phonemic awareness, decoding skills, and comprehension • Strengthen expressive language skills and written expression • Increase writing production and penmanship • Learn when and how to use assistive technology • Improve math sense • Reduce test anxiety • Increase processing speed • Improve memory This program combines lecture, with discussion and hands-on exercises to facilitate every learning style! About the Presenter: Mary B. Asper, MS, CCC-SLP, has over 40 years’ experience working with children, adults, families and educators from all walks of life in many different capacities. For the last 10 years, Mary’s focus has been on developing and implementing effective techniques and strategies to help students with language learning disabilities succeed in school. She is involved in all areas of treatment for dyslexia, including diagnosis, program development and implementation, therapeutic intervention and professional development for SLPs and educators. Mary has developed strategies to address linguistic, cognitive and social concerns based on best-practice recommendations and current neuro-scientific findings, through her work with students from the early grades through high school. Mary is the president and speech-language pathologist for her company, Coddling Hollow Associates, Inc. and coordinates a team of related professionals who serve students with severe language learning disabilities and communication disorders. She holds certification from the American Speech-Language Association, is a former board member for the Vermont Speech-Language Association and an instructor in Special Topics: Language Disorder for Lyndon State College in Vermont. |