Exceptional Children: The Restoration of Sanity by Andrew Pudewa
In the history of education and child development, parents and teachers of children with special needs and gifts have always been the "pioneers of common sense" while at the same time often developing remarkable ways of nurturing necessary skills and knowledge. From Maria Montessori to Glenn Doman, the discoveries made while working with special needs kids often prove remarkably effective with all children--empowering them with excellent skills while challenging and exposing the problems and failures of standardized education. Even in the homeschool, parents blessed with an exceptional child usually become exceptional parents, quickly finding and applying a personalized approach for each of their kids. Parents without this blessing often walk a mechanical, conveyor-belt style of doing "school-at-home," even while knowing that they need a more sane philosophy of education. We and our children are vitally important in helping them see truth and be free.
Testing Demystified by Diane Allen
Know the legal requirements for testing in
Barton Reading and Spelling System - Teach Dyslexic Children or Adults How to Read (!) from K- 9th Grade Level. by Teresa Anderson
Come and experience the parent-friendly Barton method. See and touch the curriculum and the tips and tricks that go along with this super Orton-Gillingham method. Hands on and multimedia presentation by a veteran home schooling mom who's "been there," and has experienced tremendous success using this method. Encouragement, humor and relevant door prizes included.
Dyscalculia - the "Math Version" of Dyslexia by Teresa Anderson
Come hear about the signs of dyscalculia and its remedies, including two great curricula, plus tips and tricks - all from a veteran home schooling mom who's "been there." See and touch the curricula and the tricks, enjoy a short film. Encouragement, humor and relevant door prizes included.
The Gluten Free Casein Free Diet by Nicole Aponte
Join us for this introductory course on the GFCF diet. Learn the history of the diet, the medical theories behind it and what studies have to say about its benefits for children with autism.
Taste samples of GFCF foods and gather recipes you can use at home to implement this diet as well. Also, you will hear a mother's testimony of how it greatly helped her son with autism to have improved language and cognition.
Increasing Our Children’s Learning Potential by Kim Ashby
Processing information correctly and easily is a key to learning success and an area where many of our children struggle. The way a child's body takes in information--visually, auditorily, tactilely-- will affect their ability to pull it back out when needed. Join Kim Ashby as she discusses techniques that can be utilized in the home school to help a child process learned information more effectively.
Beginning Home Schooling by Kim Ashby
If you have just started home schooling or are considering home education for your child or children, this is the workshop for you. We will discuss NC law, testing, curriculum types, learning styles, getting started, organizational tips and more.
File Folder Activities by Lisa Blocker
This workshop will be a Make It, Take It Activity. File folder activities are a great way to adapt materials that are normally consumable into an activity that can be used over and over. Most special needs children require repetition above and beyond a typically developing child so using materials such as these are a big time saver and add lots of fun to your teaching! Lisa has been using file folder activities with her children for many years now and has streamlined the process using some very simple ideas for making them quickly and easily. She will talk about adapting file folder game activities for special needs kids, making worksheets, and all sorts of other materials into reusable file folder type activities. She will talk about her adaptations to the process that make it more easily done with equipment that can be purchased for home use without expensive office store services. During the workshop each participant will assemble at least one file folder game to take with them.
Managing Oppositional Behaviors in Preschool and Elementary School-aged Children by Patsy Collins
Young children, especially those with disabilities such as ADHD, often pose a behavioral challenge for parents. They may become noncompliant in listening to parental commands or requests, or in adhering to household or neighborhood rules. Parental strategies for addressing noncompliance in children from preschool through elementary age will be discussed. These include paying attention to the child's positive behaviors, strategies for increasing compliance to commands and requests, strategies for decreasing disruptiveness and increasing independent play, and strategies for setting limits when limits are needed.
Field Trips for All Students: Quality Learning on the Road by Anna Cunningham & Lynne Taylor
Join Lynne & Anna as they guide you through the twists & turns of how to make field trips the BEST learning environment away from home. Pointers will include lesson plans ideas, how to maximize any learning style's gifts into a great field trip & to customize to meet individual interests and needs, & more!
Chiropractic...The Missing Piece to the Sensory Puzzle by Dr. Alisha Davis
Dr. Alisha Davis will be presenting a lecture on natural solutions for children with ADD/ADHD. Parents will learn how to help their child reach their full learning potential with options such as nutrition, exercise, and chiropractic. She will discuss how brain and nervous system function play a critical role in social and academic learning. If your child has been diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders or other learning disorders, you will not want to miss this presentation! You will learn of drug-free treatment options that can help “turn on the lights” to your child’s nervous system and allow him or her to reach their full learning potential
Facilitating Communication in a Homeschooling Environment by Lynne Deese
This workshop would give an overview of the use of Augmentative Communication in a classroom environment and through incidental learning.
Let’s Play: The Use of Play to Assist in Improving Behavioral and Educational Concerns Sarah DeNome
Play is the natural and universal way in which children learn, express themselves, relieve feelings of stress and boredom, connect to people in a positive way, stimulate creative thinking and exploration, regulate their emotions, and boost their ego (Landreth, 2002). In addition, play allows children to practice skills and roles needed for survival.
During this workshop, each participant will learn and practice several play techniques that may be utilized at home to assist children in improving behavioral and educational concerns. Each participant will leave the workshop with a virtual toolkit to assist families in using play to increase concentration, minimize ADHD symptoms, improve communication and social skills with peers, improve understanding of natural consequences, increase self-esteem, improve impulse control, and decrease anger outbursts.
Laying the Foundation for Learning: Improving engagement using a developmentally based approach and sensory integration theory Part 1 and Part 2 by Melanie Edwards
This workshop will focus on increasing attention and engagement in the hard to engage child (i.e., children on the autism spectrum, children with regulatory disorders, sensory processing disorder, etc.) Using the Developmental Individual-difference Relationship (DIR) approach, individuals will learn strategies to enhance learning and promote higher level thinking skills within the daily routine. The child's unique sensory profile will be considered and strategies for meeting sensory needs in the home environment will be discussed. The first part will focus on development and second part will focus on SI but, they will build on each other.
Life through the Eyes of My Child by Susan Faulkner
Even with all the information we glean from the Internet, libraries and professionals, it is still difficult to truly understand what life is like for your special needs children. During this workshop, get an "inside" look at what life with special needs is like from your child's eyes.
Susan Faulkner offers a unique, first-person insight into living day to day with deficits, disabilities or impairments. Susan has had Multiple Sclerosis for 14 years that has left her with several disabilities, many of which our children (including her own three children, two of which she home schools) experience and deal with daily. Some of the disabilities she will focus on are CAPD, ADD, Memory deficits, hearing and vision loss, processing skills, speech impairment, muscle weakness and more.
As she shares how being thrust into the world of disabilities, many of them "invisible disabilities" changed her life, will better help you understand not only what your child is facing, but what they are feeling, too. Susan has used simple, yet effective accommodations which has not only helped her in her daily living and self-esteem, but changed the way she relates to, educates, and raises her own special needs children. Such an understanding of their challenges and developing skills assists her in helping develop their daily living skills, social skills and academics. Her special perspective has blessed her children as demonstrated in their developmental leaps forward in almost all areas of their lives.
Understanding the Right-Brained Learner by Cindy Gaddis
Is your child interested in drawing, music, theater, computers, video games or building things (like Legos?) Have you heard the labels ADD, gifted, dyslexia, Asperger Syndrome, LD or other similar differences associated with your child? Have you heard people make comments about your child such as s/he does not live up to their potential, or s/he is smart but lazy? Does your child resist your teaching methods? Your child may be a right-brained, creative learner. Cindy will share the characteristics of this learning style to help parents discover their child's path to learning with joy. Celebrate the gifts of the right-brained learner while understanding why certain subjects may develop later or differently (like reading, math facts, handwriting, spelling, and writing).
Homeschooling Across the Spectrum of Autism by Cindy Gaddis
Asperger's Syndrome. High Functioning Autism. Moderately affected. Non-verbal. High behaviors. Perseveration. Mental Retardation. PDD-NOS. Social Reciprocity. Eye Contact. Pragmatics. These are some of the new words you learn that describe your child. Autism literally strikes fear in most adults. Is this really a death sentence? The current statistic is that 1 in 150 children will be diagnosed on the continuum of autism. Cindy lives with that continuum in her own home with three officially diagnosed children on the spectrum and one unofficially. There is a joyful life with autism! Cindy particularly credits her homeschooling environment as the source that celebrated the gifts within each of her children to flourish in order to find their place in the world in which they live. She will share the specific benefits her children with autism gained through homeschooling in the areas of language, social, play, academic, self help, and fine/gross motor skills.
How to Choose Curricula by Susan Harris
Are you new to homeschooling? Overwhelmed by the many choices of curriculum available? Have you tried curricula someone else recommended only to be disappointed or found it just didn't work for your family? Come and find out what you need to know and decide prior to choosing curricula. This workshop will empower you with the necessary skills to select your curricula with confidence. It will NOT specify a specific curriculum to purchase.
Homeschooling and Autism by Susan Harris and Nicole Aponte
Yes, you can homeschool a child who falls on the autism spectrum. Come learn different approaches in teaching these unique children from two moms with children on the spectrum. They will address the most common issue of socialization and areas that need extra attention. Each will give information about different therapies and present alternatives that can be used with these special individuals. They will give real life examples from teaching their own unique child. Come get encouragement, ideas, and practical advice from a homeschool mom of a Kindergartener diagnosed with classic autism and a veteran homeschool mom of an Asperger teen.
God’s Original Diet for Optimal Health by Ann B. Herrick
I enjoy being creative in the kitchen. I’ve seen the evidence of the problems with the Standard American Diet as well as the evidence of the benefits of a vegan raw food diet. I will share this information and will be pleased to answer questions.
Teaching Language Arts, Literacy and Communications to Your Child with Moderate to Significant Developmental ‘Dis’abilities Part 1 and Part 2 by Maria Troiani-Howard
In this session, Maria will share strategies, modifications and tools to teach language arts, literacy, and communications to the child with moderate to significant cognitive or developmental ‘dis’abilities. Lots of visual examples will give you practical, ready-to-implement tools and ideas for teaching your child language, literacy, creative writing (and really any subject including math, science, and social studies). Maria will share various systems including low tech Augmentative Communications (picture symbol methodologies) and high tech Aug. Comm. (a computerized speech generating device). How to setup motivating interactions to foster communications in the community. How to encourage your creativity about modifying materials for your child’s learning style.
Have a child with severe fine motor and/or speech delays? That’s no reason to limit their experience with creative writing or presentations. How to foster creative story writing and presentation skills in the child who cannot physically write or has limited speech.
Hard to motivate child? How to foster your child’s curiosity to learn, even if it seems non-existent, and motivate your child to learn in all subject areas using props, toys and rewards. Adapt anything that motivates your child into a learning moment and transition to a teaching lesson. Maria’s motto is “Setup for Success!”
After this session, you will be able to go home tonight and make a literacy kit with things you already have around your house!
The material presented in this session is applicable for pre-K through elementary developmental levels. Lots of practical, visual examples will be on display.
The Dyslexic That Could - Dyslexia Corrections for Positive Solutions by Pam Hunsinger
Teaching methods and successful strategies to correct the root of Dyslexia and not just the symptoms. Effective for students with Dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, Autism, Irlene Syndrome, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia and Asperger’s Syndrome. There is help and hope!
Reading Strategies by Pam Hunsinger
This multi-sensory workshop shows the teacher how to teach reading, writing, and spelling at the beginning stage of reading development to those students who exhibit characteristics of dyslexia. There will be a focus on the Orton-Gillingham method.
Hand's on Science for Kids with Disabilities by Robin Hurd
Both kids and scientists ask questions and look for answers. Robin will share ways to teach science to children with special needs using this “question asking” or inquiry approach. Adaptations for students who are blind or have physical disabilities will be covered, as well as for students with other disabilities or learning differences. Often, inquiry-base science incorporates a science journal. Adapting the science journal for children with significant reading and language impairments will be discussed, including for students who use AAC.
Tips and Tricks to Homeschooling a Child with ADHD by Linda Johnson
After learning how to see your child from a more positive perspective, you will learn ways to work with your child's symptoms rather than against them. Overview of resource books, websites, curriculum, and planning/classroom suggestions.
Staying Sane, Keeping On by Kathy Kuhl
In a rut with your homeschool? Getting less and less done without knowing why? Losing the joy of learning? Veteran homeschooling mom Kathy Kuhl shares common sense strategies to take care of yourself, be a better teacher, parent, and spouse, and have a happier, healthier family.
Attitudes and Assumptions by Kathy Kuhl
Without meaning to, parents can make their own lives more difficult because of the attitudes and assumptions they bring to their homeschooling. Learn to examine your own attitudes, watch for assumptions to avoid, and consider attitudes to teach your children.
Riding the Rollercoaster without Getting Sick! Navigating Biomedical Interventions for Your Child by Colleen Leonard
Ever wish you could just get the cliff notes version on biomedical interventions for your child? Well now you can! Come get constructive ideas on how to navigate biomedical interventions for your child from someone who has been navigating it for the past 6 years and has been on both sides as a parent and having worked with practitioners to treat children with neurological disorders. Topics to be discussed will be:
How to choose a practitioner
How to integrate various practitioners to get the most for your child
When to use which type practitioner and for what
How to spot a scammer - clues to conflicts of interest
Follow the Parent... wisely watching other parent practitioners for clues on what works and what doesn't
How to know if a particular method is worth a try for your child
How to make the most out of conferences
Grants and how to find them and when to use them
Diagnoses - how to use them and when to not use them - why creativity pays
Networking - why this is crucial to the journey
Those who have gone before.... How to ride the rollercoaster of biomedical interventions and not lose your mind or faith in the process!
People First Language by Winona Leonards
People First Language puts the person before the disability. It describes what the person has, not what the person IS. Come and get a hands-on approach to changing ......EVERYTHING. The way you speak touches every aspect of not only your life, but that of your child:s and others as well. Your choice of language literally tells those you come in contact with how you want to be treated and the level of respect you demand for those you love that have a disability.
Please, come and share your hour with me and leave with the knowledge that you can and will make a difference in your loved one's life and society as a whole. You WILL walk out with the tools you need to be the change you want to see in the world.
Having a Blast while Learning to Read by Linda McDonough
This workshop looks at the necessary skills a child must master when learning to read and gives creative, hands on ways to teach those skills. Teaching reading isn't about drudgery, but meeting each child where he or she is and instilling a sense of joy in the process.
ADD, ADHD, LD, CAPD, BPD, OCD, SI, ETC.: The Alphabet Soup of Frustration by Brenda Murphy
Just what do all those letters stand for and how can you deal with them if your child, or you, are “in the soup?” Through her association with Dr. Paul Cates and his son Kirk and their current research studies, Brenda Murphy knows what’s on the cutting edge of current international research on ADD and ADHD and their effect on learning. This workshop will share some of the latest findings as well as explain how these conditions affect a child’s ability to learn and a teacher’s ability to teach.
Play for a Purpose: The Right Start for Preschooler by Brenda Murphy
Children’s play is children’s work. Children who are taught to play “smart” will be “smart” when they begin their academic careers. Now’s the time to teach them right from the start. This workshop will teach you how to maximize these precious years and ready your child for academic success. It will cover specific, cost-effective, educationally-sound activities as well as help you establish an inviting learning environment at home. You’ll also learn early-detection signals for learning difficulties and what to do if they happen. (5-9 hour workshop; 1 hour summary) *This workshop is also appropriate for students with learning delays and disabilitiesGifted but by Brenda Murphy
And it’s a huge “but.” Potentially 10% of all gifted students also wear the label “learning disabled.” These are some of the most frustrated and frustrating students on the whole gamut of special needs children. They are truly brilliant yet seldom radiate their true luminescence. This workshop will explore briefly the criteria for giftedness, identify the snuffers that inhibit the gifted/ld student’s achievement, and suggest specific strategies that allow these students to shine.
Why "A" is Not Just for apple: Enhancing
The primary goal of this workshop is to share the story of English through some 1,500 years and to discuss how knowledge of the history of English is essential for successful reading instruction, and that our children need a more contextualized, meaningful, and hands-on approach to spelling--one which explores the history of age-appropriate and grade-frequent words, making them more relevant. The rationale is that we must first be familiar with and understand the need for a focus on word and other aspects of language history before we can provide the necessary foundation and the most effective reading and writing assistance. The multiple benefits of familiarity with language history are discussed and recommendations offered for etymology projects that successfully instruct and engage our children in reading and writing, and in content area development. Participants will come away with a better understanding of exactly why there are far more exceptions than rules in English, and why we write the way that we do. They will also see firsthand how sharing the history of English and learning (about) other languages could help enrich our children's vocabulary--and grammar--while providing maximal opportunities for all children to be good readers and spellers.
Problem Solving Curriculum for your Child by Sue Patrick
Sue Patrick of WorkboxSystem.com will help to problem solve your curriculum, behavioral, comprehension and general homeschooling questions. Feel free to bring the actual curriculum and sample student work. Many people may benefit from your same issues. Often people are trying to find the perfect curriculum, when what they really need to do is accommodate, alter, and break down curriculum, or even make up their own. Making up your own curriculum is easier than you think. Come join us for an open, friendly session where all are sure to benefit. Sue will bring many samples of curriculum made up for a specific curriculum concern.
Nurturing Excellent Communicators: The Importance of Language Patterns by Andew Pudewa
If we want our children--all of them--to reach their highest potential for speaking and writing, we must pay special attention to the development of their English language patterns: vocabulary and syntax. What are the major influences on children's language development? How can we consciously set out to build a reliably correct and sophisticated database of English language patterns? Many parents overlook the importance of reading out loud in huge quantity to children of all ages, and many are not aware of the profound importance of memorized repertoire, not only to benefit language acquisition, but to actually grow the brain and create more intelligence.
Spelling and the Brain by Andrew Pudewa
What is the nature of spelling, and how is it best learned? What is the nature of the brain, and how can it best process and store spelling information? How do very good spellers learn to spell? Whether you've struggled or succeeded with spelling in the past, this session will enlighten and empower you to improve your teaching of spelling to children of all different ages and aptitudes.
Reaching the Hesitant Writer by Andrew Pudewa
Exceptional children often face special challenges when learning to write, as they are easily overwhelmed with the complexity of having to think of what to write, how to write it, which added together with spelling and handwriting can simply fry a kid's brain. Learn a process of breaking the writing task into small, teachable, doable chunks, and see even the most hesitant or reluctant writer rapidly develop skills and confidence. This approach, proven to work across a wide range of symptoms--autistic, dyslexic, dysgraphic, ADD, language delayed, and more--will be your "secret weapon" for teaching composition.
Mastery Learning: What it is and Why it's so Important by Andrew Pudewa
Special Kids need specialized training in many things, and yet academic curriculum is often not set up well to accomplish that, proceeding at a predetermined pace, unable to "adjust itself" for the needs of the student, which is why the word "workbook" is often an oxymoron. Additionally, Americans don’t tend to understand mastery learning, as we are frequently pushed to embrace novelty and eschew repetition, both in life and in education. We say, "Try, try, again," while the corresponding Japanese proverb is "Ten thousand times and then begins understanding." Discover the motivational power of true mastery learning in everyday home schooling with all children.
Where to Go When You Wanta Find by Lusi Radford
One of the most daunting tasks in home schooling a blind child is where to find the materials that are needed to make the home schooling experience work successfully. This workshop will cover a variety of places to go for help. These resources come from a wide range of places. Some are from nationally known organizations and some may be as close as your own neighborhood library.
Tips and Strategies for the Dyslexic /Struggling Reader and other Learning Difficulties by Leslie Rosenberg
This workshop will provide tips and strategies for teaching students with poor reading comprehension, poor decoding skills, poor fluency, illegible handwriting, visual perceptual difficulties, Dyslexia and Dysgrahia. Leslie will discuss how to intervene when what you are doing is not working.
The workshop will be styled in a Question and Answer format . Discuss the difficulties you may be experiencing teaching your child how to read, write, or spell, despite the extra efforts and specialized curriculum you may have tried. Learn multi sensory tips and strategies to provide at home to improve reading and learning skills.
Music Therapy: Accessing Development with Music by Paula Scicluna
What is music therapy? What is the difference between music therapy and music education? Most importantly, how can music be used to help my child? These are all questions commonly asked of music therapists. Be ready to move, play and sing as you learn about music therapy and how you can use music at home to help your child.
The Gifted/ADHD Connection by Dori Staehle
Is your child bright and creative but bouncing off the walls? Or does she tune out and drift into her own world? Find out the underlying causes of inattention and hyperactivity and tips and techniques for these kids and their families.1) The Gifted/ADHD Connection - Is your child bright and creative but bouncing off the walls? Or does she tune out and drift into her own world? Find out the underlying causes of inattention and hyperactivity and tips and techniques for these kids and their families.
Good Child, Bad Behaviors: When you love the child, but not the behaviors by Stephen and Amy Thompson
Does your child’s behavior have you at your wits end? Help is on the Way!
Professional Parents will review positive parenting techniques, including preventative techniques, motivational systems, as well as crisis situations with youth behaviors. This workshop is designed to give parents solid foundations to work through tough behaviors. Get ready to be active! Role plays and audience participation will be used to really help you get a grip on using these great tools for changing behaviors.
Cogmed Working Memory Training by S. Michelle Whichard
Cogmed Working Memory Training is a home-based program that helps children with attention problems by training and increasing their working memory capacity. Clinically-proven results demonstrate that after training, children improve their ability to concentrate, control impulsive behavior and better utilize complex reasoning skills. In the end, better academic performance can be achieved, especially in reading and math.
Multisensory Mathematics: A Hands-on Orton-Gillingham Approach by Marilyn Zecher
Using manipulatives to teach mathematical concepts, this workshop demonstrates a research based Concrete to Representational to Abstract approach which also employs strategies developed for teaching students who learn differently. This approach is appropriate for all students but necessary for many. Participants will use manipulatives to explore concepts as endorsed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Teaching Spanish to the LD Student: Applying Strategies of MSL to Foreign Language Instruction by Marilyn Zecher
The presentation will focus on applying research based MSL strategies to Spanish instruction. Participants will learn multisensory strategies for helping LD students master foreign language concepts. Participants will use manipulatives and receive sample instructional materials.
Study Skills for the LD Student: Helping the LD Student Survive in the Academic World by Marilyn Zecher
This workshop will focus on study skills for the older LD student: note taking, test/exam preparation, memory, literary analysis and writing. It will be a brief introduction to the ASDEC study skills curriculum used in its summer program for middle and high school students. Participants will receive some sample materials as well as strategies for helping the older LD student survive in secondary school and college.
The Twice Exceptional Child: The Talented and Gifted LD Student by Marilyn Zecher
This workshop is based on a 2007 joint presentation between ASDEC/ and the
Distance Education: An Alternative to Traditional College by Matthew Bass
The method of earning a college degree online or through the mail, commonly called distance education, is becoming more and more popular as an alternative to attending a traditional brick and mortar college. For special needs children, it offers a positive alternative to traditional college. Aside from enabling students to study from home, it also gives them more free time for other activities and allows greater control over course content. There are a number of fully accredited colleges and universities that offer distance education programs, and more are going online every year as this innovative method of learning becomes more popular. Come listen to a home educated graduate of a distance education program discuss why it's such an excellent way to earn a degree.
Writing the Essay: From I Can't to I Can!! by Andrew Pudewa
Teaching the essay is really the process of teaching your children the invaluable skill of how to think. Come learn an easy step-by-step approach which has proven to work across a wide range of symptoms---autistic, dyslexic, dysgraphicv, ADD, language delayed, and more.
Homeschooling through High School by Fiona Last-Powell
This workshop will discuss the parent's transition in role from high school instructor to high school counselor; the workshop will also cover transcripts, dual enrollment, and some curriculum and college preparation materials. This is basic information regarding homeschooling through high school and does not cover special needs specifically.
High School Panel moderated by Fiona Last-Powell
Come join Kathy Kuhl, Susan Harris, and Susan Whitehead as they share their experiences home educating their special needs children through high school.
What Classes Does My Child Have to Have to Receive a Diploma? by Susan Harris
Do you wonder what classes your child needs to take in high school? What about one going to college? How about a child going to a tech school or one that will enter straight into the work force? How do you count credits for transcripts? Do I need transcripts if my child isn't going to college? How do you teach high school level classes? Come find out answers to these questions and more from a mom that has graduated one child and currently has another in High School.
Customized Self -Employment "Think Outside the BOX !" by David Taylor
Come join me as I tell my story. I dreamed of owning my own business, but was told NO by people in Vocational Rehabilitation. Learn how I taught them that YES I CAN own my own business and be a huge success in just 2 years. I have multiple disabilities but, I live life in the REAL WORLD!
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Math-U-See is Math You Understand! by Debbie Brown
A complete K-12 math curriculum, Math-U-See is user-friendly for you and your students and effective for many different learning styles. Watch the mystery of teaching and learning math disappear as understanding takes its place!
Reaching the Hesitant and/or Learning-Challenged Writer by Sandra Selling
Exceptional children often face special challenges when learning to write, as they are easily overwhelmed with the complexity of having to think of what to write, how to write it, which added together with spelling and handwriting can simply fry a kid's brain. Learn a process of breaking the writing task into small, teachable, doable chunks, and see even the most hesitant or reluctant writer rapidly develop skills and confidence. This approach, proven to work across a wide range of symptoms--autistic, dyslexic, dysgraphic, ADD, language delayed, and more--will be your "secret weapon" for teaching composition.
How to Incorporate Learn 'N Folders into Your Curriculum by Sharon Puryear and Debbie Jackson
Learn 'N Folders, lapbooks and portfolders are all terms used for a new approach to learning. In this workshop we'll discuss how to use this technique with different learning styles, different teaching styles and different educational approaches. It's effective with children of all ages - even high school! Put the fun back into learning. There will be lots of examples to inspire you with! This class is designed mainly for adults.
Live & Learn's Study-A-Person Make It/Take It by Sharon Puryear and Debbie Jackson
Come and see what a Learn 'N Folder is by actually making one! Join us as we create a modified version of Live & Learn's Study-A-Person Learn 'N Folder for your child to complete at home. All supplies will be provided.
Live & Learn's Botany Make It/Take It by Sharon Puryear and Debbie Jackson
Join us as we complete Live & Learn's supplement to Apologia's Exploring Creation with Botany sample. The finished project consists of about ten minibooks that accompany the first module of Botany. Download the sample module from the Apologia website, and you and your child will be able to have a wonderful time learning about botany in a hands on way.
Sue Patrick’s Workbox System-Specialized and Structured Teaching by Sue Patrick
This specialized workbox system will allow you to teach your child more effectively and at the same time help you to better organized your school day. Children using this system stay more focused and are more successful in learning and completing their school work. Starting Monday you will provide better organization for you and your child. It will then be easier to set up a school day of curriculum, variety, and fun, while steering your child to independence and focus.
Discovery Toys Can Help by Kechie McCallum
On our latest, most fulfilling and significant project, Discovery Toys has interfaced with Patricia J. Krantz, Ph.D., who is Executive Director of the famous Princeton Child Development Institute, to articulate how to use Discovery Toys products to deliver rich, sensory and educational experience by understanding the most commonly shared learning difficulties and matching toys and activities to support tailored learning programs for children with Autism. Come see how Discovery Toys products can benefit the children in your life.
The Augustine Project: Rescuing Struggling Readers by Debbie McCarthy
Does your child have difficulty reading, writing or spelling? Does she/he scramble sounds in words when speaking or have trouble thinking of the names of things? If so, dyslexia may be the culprit, and multisensory, systematic, phonics-based language instruction may be the key to success. In this workshop learn about the Augustine Project, an intensive tutor training program that uses the Orton-Gillingham approach and Wilson Reading System materials to empower volunteers (or parents) to help struggling readers improve their literacy skills.
All My Children? Enjoy Math? Absolutely! by Carlita Boyles
Have you heard of Math on the Level? It's the new homeschool math curriculum that will change how you view math instruction. Instead of the typical, one-size-fits-all approach, it equips you to teach math through real-life activities at a pace that matches each child's maturation and ability. Covering pre-K through pre-algebra, your children learn in fun, practical ways that help make math real. Come learn how Math on the Level's practical approach and 5-A-Day review make math fun for the whole family and effective for each individual.
Learning through Creative Play by Tammy Lessick
Join Tammy as she demonstrates the benefits of using Story Time Felts to teach communication, daily living skills, academics, and social interaction. This will be a hands-on workshop. Participants will get to see and "play" with the felt sets. She will be giving practical advice on how to incorporate the different felt sets into your curriculum and answer any questions. The workshop will focus on working one-on-one with your child and working with more than one child at a time.
TURBO CHARGED CHILDHOOD: Fresh Hope for Raising Children with Attention Disorders by Russell Thomas
This workshop could easily be titled "What every parent should know before medicating their ADHD child!" In this workshop, Dr. Thomas will briefly discuss the role of medications in treating ADHD, including the current marketing practices of medication to ADHD consumers. In addition, he will discuss various non-medication interventions including traditional psychological and behavioral approaches, caring for the family unit around the ADHD child and the role of nutrition and nutritional supplements in managing attention deficits. Dr. Thomas will share extensively from his past 5 years of experience using nutritional approaches to enhance mental and emotional functioning in children with ADHD. This discussion of nutrition will include a brief overview of the brain chemistry of ADHD, the link between nutrition and brain chemistry, and why some nutritional supplements don't work while others seem to be more effective.
Guided
This workshop offers information and ideas on how to use Guided Reading Units and Unit Studies to teach science, social studies, and environmental studies topics which help to build independent and responsible learners at the elementary level. The Guided Reading Units and Unit Studies are designed to develop strategies such as comprehension, questioning, and higher level thinking. Included in the units are word study lessons, vocabulary building activities, the use of graphic organizers, and other relevant study tools and activities that allow the learner to experience success with the learning process. All materials can be easily adapted for individual students and their learning styles and abilities.