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.