TDF Conference 2010 - Literacy, Reading, Dyslexia and Research-to-Practice

A Recipe for Successful Teaching and Learning - Harvard Medical School - October 15th, 2010 - Sponsored by The Brehm School, Linden Hill Institute, Brookes Publishing

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TDF Conference 2010 - Literacy, Reading, Dyslexia and Research-to-Practice

A Recipe for Successful Teaching and Learning - Harvard Medical School - October 15th, 2010 - Sponsored by The Brehm School, Linden Hill Institute, Brookes Publishing

Hear from experts in the field on what works best in teaching reading and what the current research is telling us.

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Conference Schedule
8:30 - 8:45 AM Introduction
Joan Mele-McCarthy, D.A.,CCC-SLP
Formerly Special Assistant and Public Advisor, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education
The Summit School, Head of School
Edgewater, MD

8:45 - 9:45 AM WELCOME AND BRIEF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF DYSLEXIA RESEARCH
Albert Galaburda, M.D.
Chief of Behavioral Neurology at Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center and Emily fisher Landau Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 


9:45 - 10:45 AM READING RESEARCH AND READING THE RESEARCH:HELPING STRUGGLING READERS ACHIEVE THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF LITERACY
Peggy McCardle, Ph.D.

Chief of the Child Development and Behavioral Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development(NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health
Silver Spring, MD

10:45 - 11:15 AM Break

11:15 - 12:15 PM UPDATE ON RESEARCH AND PRACTICE: PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, READING AND LITERACY: READING ACHIEVEMENT IN PRESCHOOL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL
Benita Blachman, Ph.D.
Trustee Professor of Education and Pyschology

Director of Early Reading Intervention Project
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

12:15 - 12:45 PM Award

12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 - 3:00 PM PRACTICING WHAT RESEARCH HAS PROVEN:TEACHING READING TO MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Maureen Lovett, Ph.D.
Director of Learning Disabilities Research Program,
Professor- Department of Pediatrics, Medical Sciences andHuman Development and Applied Psychology
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

3:00 - 4:00 PM WHAT ELSE CAN THE BRAIN TELLUS? MRI STUDIES AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION-IMPLICATIONS FOR READING
Ken Pugh, Ph.D.
President and Director of Research, Senior Scientist Haskins Laboratories, Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

4:00 - 4:30 PM CLOSING REMARKS
Joan Mele-McCarthy, D.A., CCC-SLP

4:30 - 5:00 PM LEARNING ASSESSMENT AND PROGRAM EVALUATION