Notre Dame College is offering graduate credit to those attending a one-day dyslexia conference in Northeast Ohio.
The College’s Office of Professional Development will issue credit for those present at the Northern Ohio Branch of the International Dyslexia Association’s 31st Annual Symposium on Friday, February 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Landerhaven in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. To qualify for the one graduate credit hour, attendees must submit a two-page reflection paper.
The conference, “Structured Literacy for All,” is appropriate for anyone looking for in-depth understanding of struggling readers and the kinds of support and instruction all students need to be successful. It features multiple sessions on writing, math and reading and a special track for parents of children with learning differences.
Graduate Credit
To gain the additional contact hours required for graduate credit, attendees at the conference need to submit a two-page, double-spaced narrative explaining the educational significance of a specific strategy from the workshop as applied to their personal work environment. They need to identify potential outcomes for usage in the paper, which should include three additional resources in support of the strategy and be submitted in APA paper format.
Additional details for the reflection, including a rubric, are available on the College’s professional development website.
Registration for the graduate credit also is available online. Click on the blue button that says, “click here to register” and select the dyslexia catalog, create an account and then register. In addition to the conference attendance fee, an additional credit hour fee of $260 is required.
Questions about registration for the graduate credit can be directed to Tina Jurcisin, administrative coordinator for the Notre Dame Office of Professional Development, at tjurcisin@ndc.edu or 216.373.6520. Information about the assignment or other courses available from Notre Dame is available from Morgan Amend at mamend@ndc.edu or 330.807.3717.
Education Degrees
Notre Dame offers undergraduate and graduate programs leading to Ohio licensure in early childhood, middle childhood, special education, adolescent/young adult and multi-age education through courses are offered on campus and online.
The College also offers a graduate-level online autism certificate and is home to the nationally recognized Academic Support Center for Students with Learning Differences (ASC).
Since its founding in 2005, the ASC has become a signature program of the College and is distinctive among higher education services for assisting students with learning disabilities beyond what is required by law. The program at Notre Dame is designed for students with documented learning differences, including those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, who are capable of performing college work, graduating and moving on to successful lives and careers.
Conference Information
Information about the conference, including registration for it, is available online at NOH.DyslexiaIDA.org.
The symposium opens with registration at 7:45 a.m., which includes continental breakfast and exhibitors.
The event features a keynote address from Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D., a certified academic language therapist, licensed dyslexia therapist and board-certified educational therapist, who works with the University of California–San Francisco Dyslexia Center. She will discuss “Dyslexia and Related Reading and Language Difficulties and Multisensory Structured Language Instruction.”
Cushen White also is a literacy intervention consultant and case manager with the Lexicon Reading Center for children with learning differences in the United Arab Emirates.
January 2020
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