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UPCOMING MEETINGS

 

LDAK   CONFERENCE
Keep this date!!!   Saturday October 23, 2010

 

SESSION 1 - 10am - 1 pm

Speaker:   Dr. Judy Van Stralen, Consulting Pediatrician

Topic:     “My Child/Teenager Has Been Diagnosed with ADHD-Now What?  Management  principles in and out of the classroom.”

This session will briefly discuss what ADHD is and how it is diagnosed.  The focus will be on managing this condition and common co-morbidities -oppositional defiant disorder, anxiety disorder and learning disabilities, inside the classroom and beyond.  This will include behavioural strategies as well as a review of medications.  Participants will be given the opportunity to ask questions.

SESSION 2 - 2pm – 4pm

Speaker:   Lynda Colgan, Associate Professor, Queen’s University

Topic:  What Are You Teaching My Child?

This session explores the current approach to teaching mathematics in Ontario schools, introducing parents to the strands, the processes and the strategies that are common in mathematics instruction.  A discussion will follow about how parents can support the problem-solving curriculum at home, focusing in particular on the child who is underachieving or is impeded by a negative disposition towards mathematics.

Additional information regarding location and cost to follow in the fall.

 

PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS

Assistive Technology Demonstration

Speaker: Pat Dudley, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University and LDAK Board Member, demonstrated some of the assistive software and hardware that LDAK has available in its resource centre.

Software includes writing predictors, text-to-speech, talking word processors, mind mapping software and others.

Hardware includes easy-to-use video recorder, digital scanning, audio recording pens, portable spell checkers and light weight portable (speaking) recording keyboards. (e.g. Dane Elec Zpen, Alphasmart and Writer Fusion keyboards, Livescribe Pulse Digital Smartpen)

Resources

 

FALL CONFERENCE October 2009

Pediatric Anxiety and How It Interacts with ADHD and Learning Disabilities

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Nugent
In this presentation, Dr. Nugent, an experienced consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, will review the main types of anxiety conditions and how they present in the pediatric age group. Significant anxiety symptoms are quite common in children and adolescents. He will also look at the interplay between anxiety symptoms and ADHD as well as other learning problems. There will also be some review of treatment options, including medications and cognitive-behavioural strategies. This topic is relevant for both elementary and high school age students.
Keeping Cool About Your Anxious Child (Powerpoint presentation)

 

LDAK PRESENTATION - January 2009

MORE Kitchen Table Math

Speaker: Dr. Lynda Colgan
Dr. Colgan is celebrating her 31st year as an educator. A winner of a number of professional awards, including OSSTF’s Excellence in Education Award for outstanding classroom teaching and the first Marshall McLuhan Award for visionary use of technology with students. Lynda is actively involved in research, writing and community service. Watch for Dr. Colgan’s math section in the Kingston Whig Standard.

Handout available from Lynda Colgan's January workshop
Kitchen Table Math