2012 Conference Recordings & Handouts

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Session Handouts

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W1: Reconciling the Common Core Standards with Reading Research (Coyne)

W1: Reconciling the Common Core Standards with Reading Research (Jager-Adams) 

W1: Reconciling the Common Core Standards with Reading Research (Lovett)

W1: Reconciling the Common Core Standards with Reading Research (Moats)  

W2: Assessment of Dyslexia (Lowell)

W2: Assessment of Dyslexia (Felton)

W2: Assessment of Dyslexia (Tridas)

W2: Assessment of Dyslexia (Brinckerhoff)

T1: A Literacy Framework: Constructing a Guide for Comprehension Instruction

T2: A Statewide Initiative: Intensive Reading Teacher Training for Broad Based Impact in the Alabama Public School System

T4: Playing Outside the Box: Outdoor Free Play and the Dyslexia Student

T5: A New Look at Learning Disabilities

T6: Spelling Error Analysis: Using Spelling Assessment Data to Plan Word Study Instruction

T7: A New Look at Learning Disabilities

T9: Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions

T11: Federal Policy Update

T12: Number Sense and Number Nonsense: The Cognition and Brain Science of Math Learning

T15: Supporting Diverse Learners in the 21st Century Classroom

T16: A Comparative Passage Independence Analysis of the GORT-4 and GORT-5 Comprehention Subtest

T17: Truly Special Education for Students with Dyslexia: Raising the Bar for IEP Goals, Services and Outcomes

T18: A Review of the Research on Multisensory Instruction: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?

T19: Town Hall Meeting for DSM-5: Let the Community Be Heard (Lowell) 

T22: iPad Apps to Support Skills in Reading, Vocabulary and Writing

T25: Revising and Rethinking Comprehension Intervention for Low Progress Readers

T26: Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) 101 for School Administrators

T30: The History and Structure of Written English

T31: Multisensory Math Magic

T32: Genetics of Dyslexia - Introduction, Results, and a New Research Project

T33: Documentation of Psychiatric Disorders on High Stakes Tests in Order to Support Accomodations

T34: Strategies for Reversing Students' Reluctance to Write: Including Handwriting, Spelling and Organization

T36: A Phonics-Based Approach to Teaching High Frequency Words

T37: Motivating Your Resistant Readers with Imagery, Mnemonics, Music, Humor, and Movement Using the Lively Letters

T38: Issues in Phonology: What You Need to Know Before You Pick Up Those Cards

T40: Multisensory Comprehension Instruction

T42: A Transformative Design: Investigating How Word Identification Increases Reading Fluency of Urban African American Adolescents with Dyslexia

T45: "Don't Dys Our Kids" Dyslexia and the Quest for Grade Level Reading

F1: Executive Functions: What Are They, Why Are They Imporant, and How Can I Help? 

F2: Essential Components of Scientifically-Based Eddective Teacher Preparation Programs

F3: Reading FAST or Reading WELL? Putting Fluency in Perspective (Handout 1)

F3: Reading FAST or Reading WELL? Putting Fluency in Perspective (handout 2)

F4: Teaching Vocabulary: Research-Based Stategies to Teach Tier 2 and Tier 3 Words

F5: Writing Keys to Learning

F6: Kinesthetic Vocabulary and Concept-Building with Elementary and Middle School Science Students

F7: Improving Reading Comprehension for Children on the Autism Spectrum

F8: Reading Interactively: Building Language and Thinking Skills in At-Risk Children Preschool Through Primary Grades

F10: A Successful RTI Model for the Prevention of Reading Problems in L1 and ELL Students

F11: FLUENCY: Related to Prosody-MUCH More Than Speed

F12: Paragraphology- The Study of Writing through Color-Coding

F13: Learning to Read Before Reading to Learn: How Foundational Reading Skills Impact Comprehension

F14: Multi-ple Intelligences, Multi-Sensory, Multi-plication

F16: Written Expression and the Struggling Writer(Dickman)

F16: Written Expression and the Struggling Writer (Shapiro)

F17: Teaching Morphological Awareness

F18: Project Early ID Plus: Lift-Off for Early Literacy!

F20: Legislation - Now! (Andrist)

F33: Write to Read: Using the Writing Process to Increase Reading Fluency, Text, Comprehension, and Expository Writing

F34: Professional Knowledge of English Grammer: A Brief Tutorial  

S2: Reversals

S3: Fostering Reading and Spelling Competencies for Dyslexic English-Learning Children: The Situation in and Solutions from Germany

S4: Preparing Students for the Challenges of "Close" Reading in College

S6: Word Power: An Overlooked Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle?

S7: Research-to-Practice: Evolution of Curriculum for Students with Dyslexia

S8: Picking It Apart and Putting It Back Together: Analyzing Elementary School Students' Writing

S9: Setting the Foundation with FUN: Wilson Fundations for Prevention and Early Intervention

S10: Integrating Basic and Intervention-Based Science to Help Learners with Reading Disabilities: Update from NICHD's Learning Disabilities Research Centers

S11: Investigating the Psychometric Properties of IDAPEL French Language Early Literacy Measures with Students Learning to Read in French

S12: Talking to Parents, Teachers, and Students about Dyslexia

S14: From Personal Sequence Narrative to Essay: Strategies for Scaffoling Oral and Written Expression

S15: A Multi-Tier Approach to Instruction and Intervention: Supporting Early Vocabulary Development for Students at Risk of Experienceing Language and Literacy

S16: Using the iPad to Enhance Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) Instruction

S22: Getting Ready to Read

S25: Morpheme Madness: Getting at Meaning through Morphemic Analysis

S28: Preservice Teacher Knowledge of Basic Language Constructs in Canada, England, and the United States

S29: Ethics Workshop for Individuals Working as Educational Therapists in Private Practice

S30: All Children Ready to Read: A Pre K-K Collaborative Design