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LDA of Kentucky Summer Conference!!! Dr. Larry Silver and Dr. Peter Alter
Friday, June 20, 2008 9:00am-4:00pm Paroquet Springs Conference Center Shepherdsville, KY (8 miles south of I-265)
Morning Session : Dr Larry Silver: Is Your Child's Learning Disability The Only Problem? What you should know about other related Disorders
This comprehensive mental health professional program includes the "co-morbid" disorders often found with individuals with learning disabilities including Anxiety, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anger Control/Bipolar Disorder, and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Dr. Silver will focus on the clinical description, diagnosis, and treatment of these disorders ending the day with a group discussion and response to your questions
Dr. Larry Silver is a well-known practicing
child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Washington, D.C. area
who has served as president of the Learning Disabilities
Association of America. For more than thirty years his primary
areas of research, clinical, and teaching interests have focused
on the psychological, social, and family impact of a group of
related, neurologically-based disorders: Learning Disabilities,
Language Disabilities, Sensory Integration Dysfunction, and
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Afternoon Session: Dr. Peter Alter Strategies for Managing Challenging Behavior This program will cover Defining Challenging Behavior of children with learning disabilities, includes tips for children with behavior issues. Additionally, Dr. Alter will cover classroom set-up for best results, preventing challenging behavior, dealing with escalating behavior and effectively responding to challenging behavior. Peter Alter completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Special Education at the University of Florida. Before pursuing his doctorate, he received his Bachelors degree in Psychology from Furman University and his Masters degree in Special Education from the University of North Florida. Peter has spent the last ten years designing and implementing behavior modification programs in a variety of settings including residential treatment facilities, juvenile justice facilities, and the Florida public school system. Most recently, he taught students with emotional and behavioral disabilities in a self-contained elementary setting. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Louisville His main areas of interest are functional behavior assessment in early childhood education and designing training activities to help early childhood teachers foster pro-social behaviors of the young children in their care. .
-------------------------------------------- Beacon of Hope Awards 2008
The recipients are: Celebration of Ability Award - Youth:
William Hogg,
Paintsville High School
A $1000 Scholarship will go to both of our
co- recipients.
(teacher/ school administrator) who has
shown creative ways to address the unique learning styles. For more information, see the article from the Louisville Courier Journal Information about Our Friend Rick Lavoie appearing at Morehead State on May 16
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The Learning Disabilities Association of Kentucky, Inc. is a non-profit organization of individuals with learning differences and attention difficulties, their parents, educators, and other service providers. This organization has been a continuous voice in this state for those who learn differently since 1966. The goals of LDA are:
What is a Learning Disability? A learning disability is a permanent disorder which affects the manner in which individuals with normal or often above average intelligence acquire, retain, and express information. Such difficulties in processing information can significantly interfere with academic and/or social development. Like interference on the radio or a blurry TV picture, incoming or outgoing information may become jumbled as it travels between the senses and the brain.
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