The NAASLN Web Calendar and listing of events is updated regularly with information about workshops and seminars, across the United States, relating to adults with Special Learning Needs. NAASLN members  may e-mail suggestions and events to: webmaster@naasln.org.

NAASLN conferences often are described as national in scope, but local in intimacy. Until our 2008 national conference, which will be announced shortly, check out the following events, which will be featuring NAASLN Road Trip Tracks, as well as other upcoming events.

April 23-26, 2008

MPAEA 2008 Conference
(Mountain Plains Adult Education Association, hosted the Utah Association for Adult, Continuing & Community Education) Downtown Radisson, Salt Lake City, UT. For details: www.mpaea.org.

Endless Possibilities is the theme of this 2008 regional conference of lifelong learning educators from Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and beyond! All lifelong learning educators are invited including those working with 21st Century programs, community education, continuing and higher education, correctional education, adult basic education (ABE), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESL), and GED programs.

NAASLN's President, Robyn A. Rennick, will be a keynote speaker and will be presenting workshops concerning how to teach students to use multisensorial techniques to enhance their study skills and long term memory as well as a workshop discussing the way dyslexia and ADD affect adult in the areas of health, emotions, social interactions, and employment.

April 28-May 1, 2008

"Show Me Success: Empowerment through Diversity"
The 2008 COABE (Commission on Adult Basic Education) National Conference to be held in St. Louis, Missouri. Conference dates are April 28-May 1, 2008 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel. For additional information visit www.coabe.org.

NAASLN will be presenting a full-day pre-conference session and a strand of workshops on disabilities issues for adult learners.

NAASLN full-day Pre-Conference (April 28) Special Learning Needs: What Can Adult Education and Literacy Programs Do? From Identification to Interventions to Systemic Changes

Join this lively all-day session and participate with leading professionals on how to provide services that actually change peoples' lives and that can demonstrate dramatic gains in persistence and learning outcomes.

Topics will include:

• Defining, establishing a set of values, and exploring the incidence of special learning needs
• Best practices for engaging learners
• What is really going on? Peeling back layers to get to the heart of why is learner is struggling
• Interventions — What? Who? And the Basics of How?
• Systemic Change — Aligning programs that practice what they preach
• Tutor-Training for Special Learning Needs
• Test Accommodations — TABE, GED, and CASAS
• Professional Development – Who is doing what, and the impact of PD on systemic improvements

NAASLN Strand of Workshops: (April 29, 30, May 1) don’t miss these in depth sessions focusing on working with Adults with Special Learning Needs

April 29, Tuesday

• Special Learning Needs:  Incidence and Implications for Building Persistence,  Laura Weisel, Ph.D, Barbara Arguedas, Susan Geary, Karen Hibbert, Margaret Girkins
• Leveling the Playing Field with Adaptations and Accommodations:  Making the GED Work for Special Need Students, Connie Leading
• LD and ESOL: Screening ESOL Learners for Special Learning Needs: An Open Dialogue, Laura Weisel, Ph.D.

April 30, Wednesday

• Serving Offenders with Special Learning Needs: A Look at the Problem and New Solutions, Alan Toops
• The ADA and Adult Education, Bevan Gibson
• Undetected and Undiagnosed Vision Problems – Obstructions to Literacy and Successful Transition to the Workforce, Joan Hudson-Miller

May 1, Thursday

• Structured Learning for the Unstructured, Richard Cooper, Ph.D.

July 13-16, 2008

63rd Annual CEA Conference
The 63rd Annual CEA (Correctional Education Association) Conference will be hosted at Denver’s largest hotel — The Sheraton (formerly Adam’s Mark Hotel). Call (888) 627-8405 for more information, or visit www.starwoodmeeting.com.