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31st Annual SWIDA Conference 2018



2018 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Erin Brown: Conference Co-Chair, Program and Speaker Arrangements, Conference ScholarshipsMontine Gibbons: Conference Co-Chair, Program and Speaker Arrangements, Local ArrangementsSue Fitzmaurice: Program and Speaker ArrangementsChamisa Roehrig: Registration, Conference ScholarshipsGina Hawryluk: Exhibits and AdvertisingTara DeBuck: Hospitality/VolunteersTamara Ogilvie: Hospitality/VolunteersClaudia Gutierrez: FundraisingKatrina Radosevich Gallegos: RaffleSteven Sanchez: PublicityMartha Steger: CEUsSally Blair: Conference Photographer

The International Dyslexia Association® (IDA) is an international organization that concerns itself with the complex issue of dyslexia. IDA membership consists of a variety of professionals in partnership with individuals with dyslexia and their families. They actively promote effective teaching approaches and intervention strategies for the educational management of dyslexia. The organization and its branches do not recommend or endorse any specific speaker, school, instructional program or remedial method. The Southwest Branch of The International Dyslexia Association® is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide information to the public regarding dyslexia and to support the rights of people with dyslexia so that they may receive appropriate education and lead fulfilling lives. The branch disseminates information, publishes a newsletter, provides referral services, and offers workshops, professional trainings, and conferences. The Branch’s geographical area covers all of New Mexico and the El Paso, Texas area.

Southwest Branch The International Dyslexia Association 2017 Executive CommitteeCarolee Dean, PresidentClaudia Gutierrez, Vice-PresidentMartha Steger, Recording SecretaryErin Brown, Corresponding SecretaryCammie Archuleta, TreasurerSteven Sanchez, Board Representative

Chamisa Roehrig, Administrative Assistant

2017 Board of Directors Sally Blair, Douglas Cox, Tara DeBuck, Sue Fitzmaurice, Katrina Radosevich Gallegos, Mary Poirier Gilroy, Gina

Hawryluk, Amy Miller, Tamara Ogilvie, Glenda Rodriguez, Dr. Steven Sanchez, Amy Stanton, Michelle Wick

2017 Advisory CouncilMelissa Behrens-Blake, Dr. Jane Blumenfeld, Jenny Coffey, Linda Curry, Sandra Dillon, Montine

Gibbons, Maile Kane, Janet Lear, Cynthia Nava, Meg Porch, Senator Mimi Stewart



TABLE OF CONTENTS Registration Information and Rates Continuing Education Hours Page 3Conference At-A-Glance Page 4Session Descriptions Page 5 - 8Meet the Speakers Page 9Directions and Map to Sandia Resort Page 10

REGISTRATION & RATES

IDA Members: $150 early bird rateNon-members: $175 early bird rateCollege Student (Teacher Prep Program or Related Field): $90* Include an additional $25 charge if registering after February 2nd

CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS Earn 1.5 CEUs for the Friday Evening event when you register for Saturday’s ConferenceEarn 6.5 CEUs for Saturday’s Sessions

NEW! A link to a downloadable Certificate of Attendance and Conference Evaluation will be emailed to all registrants immediately following the conference.



Professionals Conference - Friday Evening February 23, 2018 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

CONFERENCE KICK-OFF ADDRESS

The Reading Brain in a Digital Culture: Threats & Promises

Presenter: Maryanne Wolf, Ph.D

This presentation will describe how the brain learned to read and the implications of its plasticity for reading development--both in different languages and on different mediums. The promise and the challenges of reading development within a digital culture will be emphasized. A new direction of research on global literacy will be discussed.

Professionals Conference - Saturday Sessions February 24, 2018

8:15 am – 9:45 am

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The Elephant in the Room: What We Overlook regarding Dyslexia

Presenter: Nancy Mather, Ph.D

The purpose of this session is to address specific issues (that are often overlooked or ignored) that af-fect the identification of students with dyslexia, as well as the provision of appropriate interventions, and to attempt to propose solutions. Examples of these issues include the misguided assumptions that: (a) an RTI process is sufficient for dyslexia identification; (b) the only cause of dyslexia is poor phonological awareness; (c) twice exceptional children do not exist; (d) teachers are adequately prepared to teach reading to students with dyslexia, and (e) dyslexia only affects reading and writing performance.



Professionals Conference - Saturday10:00 am – 11:30 am BREAK-OUT SESSIONS (SELECT ONE)

S1. Executive Functioning Skills: The Gateway to Learning

Presenter: Amy Miller, MA, MFA, CALP

Students with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning differences often have weaknesses in executive functioning skills such as initiation, planning, prioritizing, organization, and other aspects of self-regulation. This session will define these executive functioning skills and explain why they are important for success in school and life.

Goal: To provide an overview of executive functioning skills and how they affect students’ performance in school.

Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Dyslexia Therapists, SLPs and related professionals

S2. Experience Dyslexia

Presenter: SWIDA Board Members

A simulation experience and sensitivity training in which participants rotate through learning stations that simulate various tasks encountered by individuals with dyslexia in the classroom or workplace.

* Limited space available -Due to the hands-on nature of this session, participation is capped at 70

Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Dyslexia Therapists, SLPs, Diagnosticians, Educational Psychologists, and related professionals

S3. Dyslexia: Its Prediction and Intervention

Presenters: Maryanne Wolf, Ph.D

This presentation will highlight some of the newest research in cognitive neuroscience on dyslexia before and after the child has begun to read. An important new set of studies on prediction with over a thousand kindergarten children indicate the presence of several different profiles that would require targeted intervention. Another set of studies of multi-component forms of intervention will be presented to exemplify intervention of the future.




Professionals Conference - Saturday

12:45 pm – 2:15 pm BREAK-OUT SESSIONS (SELECT ONE)

S4. Executive Functioning Skills: The Importance of Visualization and Internalized

Language in Learning and Life


Students who demonstrate weaknesses in executive functioning skills often have deficits in two es-sential cognitive processes: visualization and internalized language. This session will explain the role of these two cognitive processes, demonstrate why they are important in learning and in life, and provide specific strategies for building the capacity for visualization and internalized language in chil-dren. Goal: To provide an in depth discussion of the role of visualization and internalized language in the development of executive functioning skills and in promoting characteristics such as “grit” and “growth mindset”.

Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Dyslexia Therapists, SLPs, and related professionals

S5. Use of the WJ-IV for the Identification of Dyslexia


In this session, the presenter will explain the unique features of the Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ-IV) that can help in the identification of dyslexia. The different discrepancy and variation procedures will be explained. The relevance and importance of assessing strengths and weaknesses in performance as part of a comprehensive evaluation will be discussed, as well as how the identification of specific processing deficits can contribute to an accurate diagnosis. A case study will be used to illustrate the main interpretive features.

Audience: Diagnosticians, Educational Psychologists, Dyslexia Therapists, SLPs, Teachers, Administrators

S6. Deep Reading Comprehension Processes

Presenter: Maryanne Wolf, Ph.D

The most essential aspect of reading is its ability to propel thought. This presentation will describe the cognitive and emotional processes that comprise the deep reading processes from background knowledge and inference to insight and novel thought. An important emphasis will be on the development of these deep reading processes in the young, particularly in a digital culture that can either impede or promote these processes.




Professionals Conference - Saturday

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm BREAK-OUT SESSIONS (SELECT ONE)

S7. Executive Functioning In the Classroom: Strategies for Strengthening Executive

Function Skills in all Students


Executive Functioning Skills can be taught, practiced, and mastered just like any other academic or life skill. This session will focus on specific strategies for structuring the classroom and planning lessons, and will outline specific curricular components that explicitly teach and reinforce executive functioning skills. Educators will come away with an understanding of the importance of teaching executive functioning skills in their classrooms and specific strategies for implementation in their classrooms. Goal: To provide strategies for improving executive functioning skills in students through classroom structure and practices.

Audience: All educators and related professionals

S8. “The Rol of Orthografe in Dislecksia” (The Role of Orthography in Dyslexia)


The purpose of this session is to discuss how difficulties with orthography impact reading and spelling development. The presenter will: (a) define and explain orthographic awareness, (b) review the characteristics of poor orthographic awareness, (c) review past and current ways to assess orthography, and (d) discuss appropriate accommodations and interventions.




Professionals Conference Maryanne Wolf, Ph.D is the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenshipand Public Service and Director of the Center for Reading and LanguageResearch at Tufts University and Research Affiliate at the Center forAdvanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2016-2017. She has received highest honors from the International DyslexiaAssociation, the Distinguished Researcher of the Year for LearningDisabilities, the Distinguished Teacher of the Year from the state andnational American Psychological Association, the Fulbright Fellowship, andnumerous other awards. She is the author of over 150 scientific articles andtwo acclaimed books: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of theReading Brain, and Tales of Literacy for the 21 st Century.

Dr. Nancy Mather, Ph.D is a Professor of Special Education at theUniversity of Arizona in the Department of Disability and PsychoeducationalStudies. She has served as a learning disabilities teacher, a diagnostician, auniversity professor, and an educational consultant. She has publishednumerous articles and books and conducts workshops on assessment andinstruction both nationally and internationally. Dr. Mather is a co-author ofthe Woodcock-Johnson IV and has co-authored two books on interpretationand application of the WJ-IV. Other recent books are Essentials of Dyslexia: Assessment and Intervention (Mather & Wendling, 2012), and LearningDisabilities and Challenging Behaviors (Mather, Goldstein, & Eklund,2015).

Amy Miller, MA, MFA, CALP is the co-founder of the May Center forLearning, a school, tutoring, evaluation and outreach center for students withlearning differences in Santa Fe, NM. Amy has taught reading, writing,theory of knowledge, and study skills at the elementary, middle, high school,and college levels for twenty years. Amy earned her undergraduate degree inEnglish and Education from American University in Washington DC, herMasters of Liberal Studies from St. John’s College, and her Masters of FineArts in Writing from Arizona State University. Amy is a CertifiedAcademic Language Practitioner through the Academic Language TherapyAssociation (ALTA) and International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC). She is a trainer for the SEE Multi-Sensory LanguageTeaching Program through Shelton School in Dallas. Amy is proud to be aSWIDA board member.

Meet Our 2018 Conference Speakers

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Directions to Sandia Resort & Conference Entrance

Address: Sandia Resort, 30 Rainbow Rd, NE Albuquerque, NM

General Directions: 1) From the North or South take Interstate 25, exit at Tramway (EXIT 234), head east.

2) From the East or West take Interstate 40, merge onto I-25 North, exit at the Tramway (EXIT 234), head east.

Building Entrance Directions: The Sandia Convention Venue entrance is located on the eastern-most side of the building. This is also the resort entrance.

Note: Entering through the east facing doors will ensure you avoid the casino entrance.

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