Learning Disabilities Association of Arkansas
P. O. Box 95255
North Little Rock, AR 72190-5255
501-666-8777
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Exploring Options for LD
Conference Schedule

Friday, October 10


8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibit Hall


9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Keynote:  Don't Pluck My Feathers Please, I Think My Wings are Soaring,  Mark Cooper, Ph. D., LPC


10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Session A:  Strategies Promoting Positive Behaviors and Demoting Negative Behaviors Among Children (Pre-School – Grade Four) Mark Cooper, Ph.D., LPC 

Session B:  How Unknown Food Sensitivities/Allergies Affect Learning and Behavior Tonya Whitfield


11:00 a.m. -12:00 a.m.

Session A:  Strategic Instruction Model,  Methodologies for Helping Teachers Maximize Learning Among Struggling Adolescents   Patty Kohler-Evans, Ed. D.Strategies Promoting Positive Behaviors and Demoting Negative Behaviors Among Children (Pre-School – Grade Four) Mark Cooper, Ph.D., LPC

Session B:  How Vision Affects Learning Wanda Vaughn, Doctor of Optometry
 

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch on your own/ Visit Exhibit Hall

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Session A:  Inclusion in the Classroom Emily Hooks, 2nd grade Teacher, Sommer Thomas, 1st grade Teacher, and Ruth   Keogh, Reading Recovery Teacher

Session B:  Techknowledgey Janice Edmonson, MS, CCC-SLP, Technology & Resource Center Coordinator ACCESS Evaluation & Resource Center 


2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

Session A:   Brain Plasticity and the LD Child in the Classroom Betsy Speck-Kern, Ph.D.

Session A:  Identification and Remediation for Reading, Writing, & Spelling Stacey Mahurin, MS, CCC-A/SLP, CALT                               


3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.   

Session A:  Love and Logic in the Classroom Susan Bryant, Ph D

Session B:  Developmental Integration Skills - OT to be announced

Cost: Members of LDAA: $  65

Non-Members of LDAA:  $100

Students:                      $  40

 












 
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