Special Education
Parents Night: Learn About Special Education
On Tuesday evening, October 21, 2008 the Special Education Department will hold an informational meeting for parents and interested members of the Nahant community. The meeting will begin at 6:30 in the Learning Center of the Johnson School. Special Needs teachers and administrators from the school will be presenting information about the variety of services available for students with disabilities. After providing an overview of special education service delivery and the IEP process, administrators and specialists will discuss some of the techniques and activities they use in providing intervention services such as Speech/Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Counseling, Resource Room Support as well as Inclusion Services provided within general education classrooms. This evening will be an excellent opportunity to meet specialists, learn about programs, and to ask questions you may have about Special Education.
The Reading Brain
Landmark Parents Association & Landmark School Outreach Program
are pleased to present: The Reading Brain
Current Research and Interventions Presenters Nadine Gaab, PhD.and
Joanna Christodoulou, M.A. Ed.M.
About the Presenters:
Nadine Gaab, PhD., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Faculty Member, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Principal Investigator, Gaab Lab, Division of Developmental Medicine/Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School
Joanna Christodoulou, Doctoral Student and Instructor in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Register online: www.landmarkoutreach.org/saturday.htm Questions? Dr.Nadine Gaaband researcher Joanna Christodoulou will answer the following topics and related questions in their “The Reading Brain”presentation:
Saturday Series for Parents at Landmark School
SEABoard Workshops
Special Education Workshop - Basic Rights: Denied
Featured Speaker: Ellen Chambers, MBA of SPEDWatch
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 6:00-8:30pm
Swampscott Public Library
Workshop participants will learn how to handle the most common obstacles that parents and other advocates face at each stage of the special education process: referral, initial evaluation, eligibility determination, IEP development, placement, and reevaluation. Attendees will also learn how to file a Massachusetts Department of Education complaint.
Come learn the strategies used by the instructor during her ten year career as a successful special education advocate. The material, presented in a straightforward easy-to-understand format, is powerful and empowering.
The workshop is suitable for those whose children already receive special education services, and for those who feel a child may have been inappropriately denied eligibility for services.
Fee for the workshop is $6.00 per person and registration is required by emailing the SEABoard chairs at seaboardswmp@comcast.net.
Ms. Chambers is the founder and Executive Director of SPEDWatch, Inc., a statewide nonprofit civil rights movement working to secure the educational rights of all Massachusetts schoolchildren with disabilities, ages 3-21.
For more information go to www.spedwatch.org.
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