Friday begins with the Plenary Session at 8:30 a.m. and includes the presentation of the Margaret Byrd Rawson Lifetime Achievement award followed by the Norman Geschwind Memorial Lecture.
 Margaret Byrd Rawson Lifetime Achievement Award
This year's award will be presented to G. Emerson Dickman, J.D., Attorney, Law Offices of G. Emerson Dickman, III. & Past National President of IDA and Georgette C. Dickman, M.A., L.D.T/C, Director, Children’s Dyslexia Centers of New Jersey Tenafly Location.
Norman Geschwind Memorial Lecture
 Three Challenges in Becoming Literate
Donald Shankweiler, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and Research Scientist at Haskins Laboratories
There are three challenges a learner faces in becoming literate: 1) understanding how writing relates to speech, 2) gaining skill in using the tools it provides to build a print vocabulary, and 3) moving beyond the word to comprehend texts and to discover how to use the print medium to expand one’s knowledge and experience. Dr. Shankweiler will show with examples from research how learners cope with these challenges and how we can properly understand dyslexia and other individual differences.
Afternoon Keynote
New this year: IDA is pleased to host another Keynote Presentation from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon.
 A Whole New Mind
Daniel Pink, Best-Selling Author, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,” and “A Whole New Mind”
Accountants. Lawyers. Engineers. That’s what our parents told us to be when we grew up. But were Mom and Dad right? Actually, the future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind, people like artists, inventors, storytellers, caregivers. These right-brained people are the next business elite – the women and men who will power your organization. In this entertaining and provocative presentation, best-selling author Daniel Pink surveys evidence from around the world to reveal how the forces of Abundance, Asia, and Automation are nudging us into an era defined not by traditional “knowledge workers,” but by creators and empathizers. He explains what this transformation means for your organization – and he offers hands-on tools and tips, as well as real-life examples, for how you can navigate this new terrain.
The Pinnacle Award
 One of American poetry's longtime masters of the art, Philip Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Failure (Harcourt, 2007), for which he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the “Dummy Class” in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when his oldest son was diagnosed with the same condition, did Schultz realize that he was dyslexic. We are honored to present this year’s Pinnacle award to Phillip Schultz.
Friday Breakout Sessions will be available soon.
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