LEARNING TO ACHIEVE

1. WELCOME LEARNING TO ACHIEVE

2. Presenters • Rose Gioia-Fine Family Literacy Consultant gioiafine@comcast.net • Kim Rossman Executive Director - TLC kim@tlcliteracy.org • Joy Zamierowski Lead Consultant jzamierowski@stairwaysbh.org • Learning to Achieve Training, June 2012 • 3 day intensive training Welcome!  Thanks for joining us!

3. The purpose of this professional learning opportunity is to help adult education practitioners increase their knowledge and skills to provide services that are effective and appropriate to the needs of adults with learning disabilities (LD). Facilitators: Module 1: Definition of Learning Disabilities • Eight face-to-face modules • Each module is two hours long • Programs can pick and choose modules most relevant to their adult education practitioners, but the first three modules cover core content that must be included with any of the other modules. Module 2: Self-Determination Rose Gioia-Fine (724) 317-8730 Module 3: Legal Issues Module 4: Explicit Instruction Kim Rossman (814) 867-0203 Module 5: Reading Disabilities Joy Zamierowski (814) 878-2010 Module 6: Written Expression Disabilities Module 7: Content Learning Module 8: Workforce Readiness Objective of Learning to Achieve: To identify tools and techniques to effectively share adults with LD. Online Modules: • * Accommodations • * English Language Learners • * Neurology Learning to Achieve is a Research-Based Training on Serving Adults with Learning Disabilities

4. Purpose To provide a preview of Learning to Achieve, a research-based training on serving adults with learning disabilities (LD) To increase your knowledge and skills relevant to providing services that are effective and appropriate to the needs of adults with learning disabilities To provide opportunities for further professional development about learning disabilities Learning to Achieve * Welcome * Slide 3

5. Activity: Introductions Tasks • Take 30 seconds to prepare your responses to the following questions: • What is your name? • What do you do and where do you do it? • What is one way that you learn best? • What are some challenges you face in a learning environment? • Share. Learning to Achieve * Welcome * Slide 4

6. MODULE 1 Definition of Learning Disabilities LEARNING TO ACHIEVE

7. Preferences, Difficulties, and Disabilities ALL POPULATIONS Learning Preferences DEPENDS ON CIRCUMSTANCES OR SPECIFIC TASKS Learning Difficulties Learning Disabilities LEGAL TERM Learning to Achieve * Module 1: Definition of Learning Disabilities * Slide 6

8. Consensus Definition of LD “Strong converging evidence supports the validity of the concept of SLD (specific learning disabilities).The evidence is particularly impressive because it converges across different indicators and methodologies. The central concept of SLD involves disorders of learning and cognition that are intrinsic to the individual.SLD are specific in the sense that these disorders each significantly affect a relatively narrow range of academic and performance outcomes. SLD may occur in combination with other disabling conditions, but they are not due primarily to other conditions, such as mental retardation, behavioral disturbance, lack of opportunities to learn, or primary sensory deficits.” National Research Center on Learning Disabilities, 2007, p. 2 Learning to Achieve * Module 1: Definition of Learning Disabilities * Slide 7

9. MODULE 2 Self-Determination LEARNING TO ACHIEVE

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