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Learning Ally: Helping Children with Reading-Related Learning Disabilities and Visual Impairments Reach Their Full Potential




Learning Ally helps children with reading-related learning disabilities and visual impairments reach their full potential. By sharing best practices with with parents and educators, much can be done to help dyslexic, blind, and visually impaired students learn to read proficiently and to leverage audio books and other aids to enrich and improve their learning.  

In this training, you will expand your toolbox of strategies for struggling readers, learn to implement innovative solutions to inspire independence, and revolutionize your classroom to effectively support students who learn differently.  Specific learning objectives include:

1.      Understanding why/how audiobooks can support reading skill development
2.      Connecting the benefits of human-read audiobooks to student outcomes
3.      Knowing the program components of the Learning Ally solution
4.      Understanding the 4 qualifying categories of eligibility

Important Session Information:


By sharing best practices with parents and educators, much can be done to help dyslexic, blind, and visually impaired students learn to read proficiently and to leverage audio books and other aids to enrich and improve their learning. In this training, you will expand your toolbox of strategies for struggling readers, learn to implement innovative solutions to inspire independence, and revolutionize your classroom to effectively support students who learn differently. Specific learning objectives include: 1. Understanding why/how audiobooks can support reading skill development 2. Connecting the benefits of human-read audiobooks to student outcomes 3. Knowing the program components of the Learning Ally solution 4. Understanding the 4 qualifying categories of eligibility 5. Discovering books in the Learning Ally library 6. Getting hands on experience with LINK (reading app) and Teacher Ally (online student management tool)
Registration for this session has ended
Session ID:
317207
Credits Available:
(2.5) CPE
(2.5) Contact Hours
Seats Filled:
13 / 50
Fee:
$0.00
Contact Person:
Cynthia Balthrop
Paula Perkins
Paula Tilker
Instructor(s):
Madelyn Dabbs
Audience:
504, Diagnostician, Dyslexia, Librarian, Parent / Community, Reading Specialist, RTI, Special Ed Teacher, VI
 
Date Time Location
3/26/2018 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Region 9 ESC - Archer 1 (Entrance D), Archer 2 (Entrance D)
301 Loop 11, Wichita Falls, 76306


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  • There will be a $250 per day fee for out-of-region or non Region 9 District participants. If coop membership is required, there will be a $125 per day fee for non-coop participants.

  • If you have any special needs such as accessibility, Braille, large print, or a sign language interpreter, please notify Barbara Seigler at least 2 weeks before the session at 940-397-8235, or by email at barbara.seigler@esc9.net.

 
301 Loop 11, Wichita Falls, TX 76306