+ Dyslexia Association Creates Social Network Site for Conference

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IDA has launched a new social network created exclusively for those interested in attending the annual IDA conference on November 9-12 in Chicago.

The IDA Conference Zone allows members to interact and network with others, upload photos and videos, stay up to date on all the latest information and promotions, chat live with others online, and more! IDA Conference Zone is a safe and secure online community for attendees to connect before, during, and after the IDA conference.

We encourage you to share this with anyone else interested in attending the conference. This way they will be able to see what the conference entails and stay in tune with the latest news!

 What are you waiting for?! Follow the link below to join the Zone now!

The link to IDA Conference Zone is: http://www.idaconferencezone.ning.com

Keynote Speaker   Pleasant Rowland is a noted educator, business leader, and philanthropist whose career began as a primary-grade teacher. Her lifelong interest in teaching children to read grew from her classroom experience and ultimately led to her authorship of reading and language arts programs used widely for years in schools across the country.  In 2004, Ms. Rowland established the Rowland Reading Foundation which is dedicated to improving reading instruction in the primary grades. With all the challenges our nation faces today, the Rowland Reading Foundation deeply believes none is more critical than the need to solve the reading crisis. Additionally, Ms. Rowland is infamous for the line of historically accurate books, dolls, and accessories she created known as The American Girls Collection. Ms. Rowland will give this year’s Keynote Address on Wednesday night at 6:00 p.m.

tutoring in Columbus OH:  Adrienne Edwards 614-579-6021  or email  aedwardstutor@columbus.rr.com

+ International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Conference Nov 9-12 2011

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On November 9-12, 2011, The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) will hold its 62nd annual conference at the Hilton Chicago.

The International Dyslexia Association promotes literacy through research, education and advocacy.  The purpose of the organization is to provide the most comprehensive range of information and services that address the full scope of dyslexia and related difficulties in learning to read and write.

The aim is to do so in a way that “creates hope, possibility and partnership.  The goal is that every individual has the opportunity to lead a productive and fulfilling life.”

The annual conference attracts thousands of outstanding researchers, clinicians, parents, teachers, psychologists, educational therapists and people with dyslexia.

Sessions By Theme

• Accommodations
• Adults with dyslexia
• Alphabetic principle
• At-risk students
• Attention and executve control/ADHD
• Critical reading skills
• Definition
• Developing self-advocacy
• English language learner
• Families and informed parenting
• Federal legislation (IDEA/RTI/NCLB/Reading First)
• Fluency
• Handwriting/dysgraphia
• Identification for school support services
• Identification/diagnosis/screening/assessment
• Language disorders
• Mathematics/dyscalculia
• Morphology
• Oral language
• Phonemic/phonological awareness
• Psychological and neuropsychological assessments and treatments
• Research behavior (psychophysics/psycho-educational)
• Research/neurobiology (anatomical/physiological)
• Response to intervention/inclusion
• School administration
• Social-emotional
• Speech and language assessments and treatments
• Spelling
• Technology
• Text comprehension
• The college student and dyslexia
• The gifted dyslexic student
• Training the trainers, teachers and professors
• Vocabulary
• Written expression

You can register online at http://www.interdys.org .  Registration fees are cheaper for members.

Why be a member? The membership is comprised of people with dyslexia, their families, educators, diagnosticians, physicians and other professionals in the field. 

IDA is a clearinghouse for valuable information and provides information and referral services to thousands of people every year.

tutoring in Columbus OH:  Adrienne Edwards  614-579-6021  or email aedwardstutor@columbus.rr.com

+ If You’re Giving, Consider IDA

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Where do dyslexic students, their families and teachers turn when no one seems to have the answers?

For more than 60 years, The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) has

• provided research-based fact sheets to parents and families;
• published best-practice methods to educators and professionals; 
• referred parents to locally-based experts to assist their children with dyslexia.

They promote awareness, educate the public about dyslexia and advocate on behalf of all who experience the pain of learning disability.

NOW THEY NEED YOUR HELP

These are times of economic uncertainty, in which your support is more important than ever.  Whether it’s

• $10
• or even $10,000,

IDA puts your gift to good use. 

Your support enables them to provide individuals with the support they so desperately need — be it finding a tutor or a language therapist near their home, advocating at the child’s school or providing ongoing educational support to teachers directly in your community.

They hope you will consider a year-end donation to IDA.

DONATE NOW!  

https://www.interdys.org/olssecure/donation.aspx

tutoring in Columbus OH:   Adrienne Edwards 614-579-6021  or email  aedwardstutor@columbus.rr.com

+ Teacher Scholarships Available for IDA Annual Conference in November

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Thanks to the generosity of several of IDA’s partners in the learning disabilities space, it is able to offer scholarship underwriting to help qualified individuals attend their congerence.

•  EPS (Educators Publishing Service)  and the Robert G and Eleanor T Hall Memorial Fund  created this scholarship fund in honor of EPS’s company founder, Robert G Hall and his wife, Eleanor Hall.

The scholarships are for teachers.  They will cover registration fees, hotel stipend and one year membership in IDA.

Recipients are responsible  for their own travel, hotel accommodations and other expenses.

Immediate registration required upon notification of acceptance.  Applicants should NOT register for sessions at this time as registrations cannot be processes without payment.

Applicants will be notified of acceptance by October 1, 2009.  Deadline for application: September 15, 2009.

To download your application, click here: 

http://www.interdys.org/ewebeditpro5/upload/HallScholarshipSinglePage.pdf

• 2009 IDA 60th Annual Conference Scholarship for Teachers — Thanks to the generous support of the Edwin W and Catherine M Davis Foundation, IDA is offering a number of scholarships for current educators. 

The scholarship will cover registration fees only.  Recipients are responsible for their own travel, hotel accommodations and other expenses.

Please, they say, don’t apply if your school or business has not agreed to give you time off or if you are unable to cover travel and lodging expenses.

Recipients will be required to register for sessions immediately upon notification of acceptance.  Applicants should NOT register for sessions at this time as registrations cannot be processed without payment. 

Applicants will be notified of acceptance by October 1, 2009.  Deadline for applications: September 15, 2009.

Download the application here:

http://www.interdys.org/ewebeditpro5/upload/IDADavisScholarshipSinglePage.pdf

The International Dyslexia Association 60th Annual Conference  is being held November 11-14th, 2009 at the Swan & Dolphin Hotel in Lake Buena Vista Florida. 

For more information visit IDA  site at http://www.interdys.org.

tutoring in Columbus OH:   Adrienne Edwards   614-579-6021  or email  aedwardstutor@columbus.rr.com

+ IDA Call for Papers Extended to February 13th

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The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) has extended the submission deadline for presentations for its 60th annual conference, which takes place November 11-14, 2009.  The venue is Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida. 

They offer complimentary registration to each presenter on the day they speak.

The Call for Abstracts is available online through the IDA website.  http://www.interdys.org/CallForPapersOrlandoTest1.htm

IDA recommends that you read the submission specifications before submitting a proposal.   And remember, you can submit more than one!

Kristen Penczek  is Director of Conferences (kpenczek@interdys.org).  Darnella Parks, Conference Coordinator, will answer any questions you might have (dparks@interdys.org). 

tutoring in Columbus OH:   Adrienne Edwards  614-579-6021   or email  aedwardstutor@columbus.rr.com.

+ IDA Hosts Swingdance Fundraiser in Columbus Nov 7

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Help COBIDA raise money to help the one out of five children who are affected by dyslexia.

COBIDA, the Central Ohio Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, is joining Kurt Ludlow of Columbus’s WBNS 10TV and corporate sponsor American Electric Power to host a 1940s USO themed evening.

Date: November 7, 2008.  Place: The Grand Valley Dale Ballroom at 1590 Sunbury Road, Columbus OH 43219.

The evening includes dinner followed by the OSU (world class) dance team, a live auction and dancing to the Z Sharp Band.

EVENT SCHEDULE

• 6:30 PM: Cocktails
• 7:30 PM: Dinner
• 7:30 PM: OSU Dance Team Performance
• 8:00 PM: Live Auction
• 8:30 PM: Dance floor opens
• 10:00 PM: Auction closes

Your support for this event will help COBIDA provide Ohio’s dyslexic children with testing and diagnosis as well as specific training for educators working to provide one on one instruction for dyslexic learners.

COBIDA also provides awareness programs and related learning opportunities for parents and students with learning disabilities.

Help ensure success for students with this neurologically-based, heritable condition, who struggle in school because they have difficulty with reading or spelling. 

Join in an evening of fun, take a chance and bid on some fantastic items, and support a cause that will help our children who struggle in school.

Gold Sponsorship: $5,000; Silver sponsorship: $3,000; Bronze sponsorship: $2,000.

Individuals: $100.

Gold sponsorship includes two tables of ten, your company logo on a banner, recognition in the event program, your logo in the advertisement featured in Business First, marketing info in goody bags, prominent seating AND…

personal dance lessons with Shannon Farley of the Lindy for your table that evening.

Silver sponsorship includes  one table for 10, recognition in program and your logo in advertisement in Business First.

Bronze sponsorship includes  one table for 10 and recognition in program.

Register at http://2008swingfordyslexia-emailinvite.eventbrite.com/?invite=ODA5MjEvYWVkd2FyZHN0dXRvckBjb2x1bWJ1cy5yci5jb20vMQ%3D%3D%0A

Questions? Please email bmayo@preciseresource.com

Sample of Live Auction items:

OSU items with signatures, of course; 4 Club Level tickets to Browns vs. Bengals game; 4 Club Level tickets to Columbus Blue Jackets; 2 All Day Racing at Mid Ohio Racing; 2 VIP Packages to Sugar Bar; 2 VIP Packages to Spice Bar — and lots more.

tutoring in Columbus OH:   Adrienne Edwards   614-579-6021   or email  aedwardstutor@columbus.rr.com

+ IDA Conference in Seattle October 29-November 1, 2008

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The 59th Conference of the International Dyslexia Association will take place in Seattle, Washington on  Oct 29-Nov 3, 2008.  See below for links to register and to view all the educational and professional development sessions.

The Washington State Branch of IDA is planning  a dinner cruise aboard the flagship of the Argosy Cruise fleet.  

A full-day school tour is scheduled for those who would experience in person the unique Bremerton School District Dyslexia Pilot Project.  The full day tour lets you into View Ridge Elementary School or Mountain View Middle School, where you will observe instruction tour by classroom teachers, Title 1 Reading Specialists and Special Education teachers within a general education classroom. 

Or take a half-day tour to the Hamlin Robinson School, a self-contained private school using the Slingerland approach.  Both tours will include debriefing sessions and lunch.

 The Wednesday symposium is titled: “Quality Teacher Preparation Reading Programs,” and is chaired by Martha C Hougen of the University of Austin. 

Dr Hougen, Susan Smartt of Vanderbilt, Louisa Moats, Professor Malt Joshi of Texas A&M, Louisa Spear-Swerling, Jeanette Cornier and Debora Scheffel present this comprehensive session that includes “Barriers to the Preparation of Highly-Qualified Teachers in Reading,” “Where Do Preservice Teachers Receive Informed Instruction About Reading,” and “Teacher Preparation & Comprehension-Based Reading Disabilities.”

Intel provides a free airport shuttle for registered attendees.

To register, visit https://ww2.eventrebels.com/er/Registration/StepRegInfo.jsp?ActivityID=2545&StepNumber=1

To view sessions or download a program: http://www.interdys.org/AnnualConferenceSessions.htm

For information about exhibitors, and a floorplan: https://ww2.eventrebels.com/er/Exhibitor/ExhibitorFloorMap.jsp?ActivityID=2545

To join the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) and thereby get a conference discount — or for all the other benefits available: https://www.interdys.org/olssecure/JoinorRenew.aspx

tutoring in Columbus OH:   Adrienne Edwards   614-579-6021   or email  aedwardstutor@columbus.rr.com

+ Central Ohio IDA Annual Conference Was March 1, 2008

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Marcia Henry was the Keynote speaker at the Annual Spring Conference of the Central Ohio Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (COBIDA). 

This conference was useful for parents, teachers, administrators, college students, dyslexic adults and anyone who is interested in dyslexia and its ramifications.

• Saturday March 1, 2008
• 9am to 3:30pm
• UALC – The Church at Mill Run 3500 Mill Run Drive Hilliard OH 

Dr. Marcia Henry has 47 years experience in the field of reading and dyslexia, working as a teacher, diagnostician, tutor, and professor.  She is a past president of the International Dyslexia Association and former director of the Center for Educational Research on Dyslexia at San Jose University.

She is a frequent speaker at conferences, and writes for and serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.  She provides professional development seminars on teaching reading and language arts, and consults with school districts and states on informed reading instruction.

In 2000, the IDA awarded Dr. Henry the Margaret Byrd Rawson Lifetime Achievement Award.

Afternoon breakout sessions included:

• Layers of Language: Frameworks for Decoding, Spelling & Vocabulary Instruction (Dr. Marcia Henry)
• What Do You Mean Multisensory Structured Language [MSL]: a demonstration of a Basic Orton-Gillingham [MSL] Lesson (Jean Colner, C/AOGPE, AALT; Ann Krimm, C/AOGPE; tutor Alida Sfalcin MEd)
• Assessment of Learning Disabilities: Reading Between the Numbers (Steven Guy, PhD, Child Neuropsychologist, Private Practice)
• Gene Environment Effects on Early Reading: Implications for Response to Intervention (Stephen A Petrill, PhD, Professor, Department of HDGFS, Ohio State University)
• Spelling for Kids Who Can’t Spell and Won’t Write: (Randi Saulter, MS, Educational Consultant, Curriculum Designer & Author) 

For more information about COBIDA or upcoming events visit www.cobida.org or email COBIDA at helpline@cobida.org.  

The national IDA Web site is: www.interdys.org  

tutoring in Columbus OH:   Adrienne Edwards   614-579-6021  or email  aedwardstutor@columbus.rr.com