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NJIDA & NJSHA SPRING CONFERENCE
Word Study -Using A 5-Block Approach
to Improving Literacy Skills
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Newark Airport Marriott Hotel
Guest Speaker: Kenn Apel, Ph.D CCC-SLP
Come to the spring conference to discover the 5 blocks needed to build word knowledge, and how pronunciation, meaning, and spelling patterns interact to build literacy. Learn the stages of spelling development, and how to assess and remediate word-level reading and spelling deficits.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE BROCHURE
Past Events
NJIDA 26TH ANNUAL FALL CONFERENCE
Perfectly Pieced Together: Technology, Knowledge, & What Really Works in Developing Skilled Readers & Writers
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011
Thank you all for making this year's conference a great success! Here are some pictures from the conference and Grasso Dinner:
Thank you to our wonderful presenters! Here are some highlights of their presentations:
"Deficiencies in literacy lead to a nightmare of exclusion"
-Dr. Tim Shanahan, Professor of Urban Education & Director
of the Center for Literacy at the
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Visual processing is the mind's ability to understand what the eyes are seeing...Poor visual processing can cause decoding deficits"
-Dr. Richard Petrosky, ABPD,
Neuropsychologist
"Just because kids are in the same classroom, it doesn't mean they get the same learning experience
-Dr. Tim Shanahan
SOUTH JERSEY SIFFT:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011
NJIDA's Annual SIFFT, Summer Institute Food for Thought. Participants enjoyed practical and thought-provoking workshops about DIBELS Next, the speech-language therapist's role in literacy learning and child advocacy.For more information click here.
NJIDA & NJSHA Spring Conference 2011: Scaffolding Reading Comprehension.
Dr. Anita Archer shared, with a room full of teachers and speech-language pathologists, a wonderful conference on evidence-based instructional strategies to scaffold student comprehension of informational and narrative text before, during and after passage reading. Find out more here.
Governor Christie proclaimed October 2010 as "NJ Dyslexia Awareness Month"
Click here to see the official proclamation.
DYSLEXIA DASH 2010
The event, held annually during the IDA conference, had another successful year, raising nearly $75,000 for the International Dyslexia Association. Gordon Sherman and Dee Rosenberg represented the New Jersey branch, contributing about $700 to the cause.
NJIDA 25th ANNUAL FALL CONFERENCE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2010
Empowering Minds: Fitting the Puzzle Pieces Perfectly Together for Struggling Learners
This year's conference was packed with pragmatic and valuable ideas to enhance teaching, inform parents, and help students reach their full potential.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS – FROM ABC’S TO ADHD: Dr. Eric
Tridas, M.D. FAAP, Director of The Tridas Center for Child
Developmental and a Vice President of the International
Dyslexia Association.
NJIDA/NJSHA - READING INSTRUCTION: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2010
The New Jersey Branch of the International Dyslexia Association and the New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association joined to present Reading Instruction: A Vision for the Future. Dr. Marjorie Gillis, Senior Scientist & Project Director of the Literacy Initiative, Haskins Laboratories, discussed strategies for comprehensive reading instruction and the knowledge base needed to teach reading.
BARBARA WILSON TO SPEAK AT FALL CONFERENCE -
October 12-13, 2012
Eileen Grasso Dinner October 11, 2012
NJIDA is proud to welcome Barbara Wilson as keynote speaker at our 2012 annual fall conference.
An exciting, useful, and informative conference is planned for this October.
Check back soon for more information.
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