In this webinar, Dr. Peng will present a series of studies examining the effectiveness of multi-component reading interventions designed to explore whether there exists an optimal combination of reading skills to be employed in these interventions, achieving both effectiveness and efficiency. The findings hold the potential to yield valuable insights...
Selecting appropriate intervention strategies for children with reading difficulties is of great importance but can be a challenging endeavor. This session will provide an overview of how to use curriculum-based assessment practices to identify areas of concern within reading and ultimately identify interventions to address those concerns. Methods for continuously...
This presentation first examines the difficulties most students with a learning disability experience and the factors that contribute to these challenges. It then provides recommendations for teaching writing to these students based on research, providing evidence-based practices for Tier 1 and beyond instruction.
This presentation will describe executive functions and discuss their involvement in academic production. Thed istinction between learning disabilities resulting from process deficits and producing disabilities resulting from executive control deficits will be highlighted. Reading, writing, and math production difficulties related to executive function deficits will be discussed in detail. The...
The purpose of this webinar is twofold: (1) to describe in detail the abilities and skills that should be included in a comprehensive evaluation for dyslexia (reading and spelling skills, specific linguistic risk factors, cognitive abilities, and qualitative information) and (2) to describe briefly how these components were operationalized within...
This webinar will explore how young children learn and acquire basic mathematical skills from a brain-based educational perspective. the role of language, working memory, visual-spatial reasoning, and executive functioning will be featured as primary cognitive constructs involved in the acquisition of basic number skills. There will be a discussion on...
Dr. Flanagan covers avarious aspects of the Dual Discrepancy Consistency Method and Cross-Battery Assessment from conceptualization and foundational information leading to some advanced features and linking assessment to intervention.
Presented by: Dehn Working memory has a strong influence on all aspects of academic learning and performance, and working memory deficits are likely to result in specific learning disabilities. Dehn’s working memory model is reviewed along with recommendations for a comprehensive assessment of working memory. Interventions for working memory are...
Presented by: Kilpatrick Assuming adequate instruction, the vast majority of cases of poor word-level are due to the phonological-core deficit. This phenomenon results in difficulties with spelling, with sounding out words, and with remembering words for later retrieval. This presentation will cover how word-level reading works, why some struggle, and...
Presented by: Mather Dr. Nancy Mather presents a session that is twofold: (1) to describe in detail the abilities and skills that should be included in a comprehensive evaluation for dyslexia (reading and spelling skills, specific linguistic risk factors, cognitive abilities, and qualitative information) and (2) to describe briefly how...
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