Teacher Workshop dealing with LD/ADHD

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Teacher Workshop dealing with LD/ADHD

Please get the word out to your children's teachers

Sharon Gudger

sharongudger@...

Special Education Consultant/Advocate

678-764-5554

Welcome to our Teacher Workshop:

Dealing with the LD/ ADHD Child in the Classroom

Sponsored Jointly by: LDAG and Lullwater School

Friday, June 2, 2006

8:00 AM - 3:15 PM

4105 Briarcliff Rd. NE

Atlanta, GA 30345

(Located at the Briarcliff United Methodist Church)

8:00 AM Registration Fellowship Hall

8:30-9:45 AM

Keynote: CHRIS ZEIGLER DENDY, MS Fellowship Hall

will bring us a down to earth look at the difficulties and struggles of living and succeeding while coping with a learning and attention deficit.

It's All About Success

9:45-10:00 AM BREAK

Breakout sessions:

10:00-11:00 AM BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT Room 104

A Positive Approach to Managing a Child's Behavior

Enhance your skills of functional assessments, and learn to create replacement behaviors, and environmental changes.

· Presenter: Jill Trammell

10:00-11:00 AM MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH Room 112

Using the theories of Executive Function, as the Key to Learning

Practical applications innervating students to stay on task, remaining on task and succeed in accomplishing goals.

· Presenter: Joan K. Teach, Ph.D.

11:00-11:15 AM BREAK

Breakout sessions Continue:

11:15-12:15 AM WRITING WORKSHOP Room 104

Teaching Written Expression Skills to Diverse Learners in the Classroom: Some Pieces to the Puzzle

A collection of ideas, activities, and techniques to help the struggling writer meet the regular classroom setting demands.

· Presenter: Kathy Boyle-Gast, M.A.

11:15-12:15 AM IMPROVING SELF ESTEEM Room 112

Finding the Words That Don't Hurt

It is all about relationships...It does not matter how intelligent, wealthy, or powerful one is…If she or he cannot work with and for other people she or he will not be able to affect positive change.

· Presenter: n Leahy, Ed.D.

12:15-1:30 PM LUNCH Fellowship Hall

MEET THE AUTHORS Room 110

1:30-2:30 PM NON VERBAL LEARNING DISABILITIES Room 104

Discover the Impact of Non-Verbal Learning Disability in the Classroom

Learn the three major components of NLD and discover hands on activities to address this child's needs.

· Presenter: Bonnie Cohen-Greenberg, M.S.

1:30-2:30 PM SENSORY INTEGRATION Room 112

Creating Competency connecting physical, sensory, cognitive and motor strategies

How to gain school and life success through memory, perceptual and sensory motor strategies.

· Presenter: N. Orloff, OTR/L

2:45-3:15 PM WRAP UP AND DEBRIEFING Fellowship Hall