LEARNING TO ACHIEVE

WELCOME

Presenters

• Rose Gioia-Fine Family Literacy Consultant gioiafine@comcast.net

• Kim RossmanExecutive 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!

is a Research-Based Training on Serving Adults with Learning Disabilities

Learning to Achieve

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).

Module 8: Workforce Readiness

Module 1: Definition of Learning DisabilitiesModule 2: Self-Determination

Module 3: Legal Issues

Module 5: Reading Disabilities

Module 6: Written Expression Disabilities

Module 4: Explicit Instruction

Module 7: Content Learning

¨ 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.

Objective of Learning to Achieve:

To identify tools and techniques to effectively share adults with LD.

Online Modules:

* Accommodations

* English Language Learners

* Neurology

Joy Zamierowski

(814) 878-2010

Kim Rossman

(814) 867-0203

Rose Gioia-Fine

(724) 317-8730

Facilitators:

Purpose

Learning to Achieve * Welcome * Slide 3

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

Activity: Introductions

Learning to Achieve * Welcome * Slide 4

1. 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?2. Share.

Tasks

MODULE 1

LEARNING TO ACHIEVE

Definition of Learning Disabilities

Preferences, Difficulties, and Disabilities

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Learning Disabilities

Learning Difficulties

Learning Preferences

LEGAL TERM

DEPENDS ON CIRCUMSTANCES

OR SPECIFIC TASKS

ALL POPULATIONS

Consensus Definition of LD

Learning to Achieve * Module 1: Definition of Learning Disabilities * Slide 7

“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

MODULE 2

LEARNING TO ACHIEVE

Self-Determination

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Take your sticky notes and post them on the appropriate sheet on the wall.

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New Information and Application Ideas

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