“Why The Brains of Students with LD/ADHD Are At Risk and What We Can Do About it”
Conference Date: April 24, 2014,
8:30 registration and coffee
Location: Fay School in the Harris Theater Room, Southborough, MA 01772
Parking: In back of the Church across the street
Keynote Speaker: Jerome J. Schultz, Ph.D.
"No Where To Hide" Book Signing
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2014 Spring Confererence Hotel Reservation Information
The Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center has blocked off rooms for the conference at $159/night. You will need to reserve a room soon. Attendees: click here to book, modify, or cancel a reservation from March 3, 2014 to April 24, 2014.
Jerome Schultz, Ph.D. - Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Jerome (Jerry) Schultz began his career as an elementary and middle school special education teacher, and is currently is a clinical neuropsychologist, on the faculty of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry. For over three decades, he has specialized in the neuropsychological assessment and treatment of children with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other special needs. While Dr. Schultz is not currently seeing patients for testing or therapy, he is engaged full time in public speaking, teacher training, supervision and consultation to schools in the US and abroad.
Dr. Schultz received both his undergraduate and Master’s degree from The Ohio State University and holds a Ph.D. from Boston College. He has completed postdoctoral fellowships in both clinical psychology and pediatric neuropsychology.
He has served on the faculty at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, at Boston College, and Lesley University (in Cambridge, MA). He was the founding director of a diagnostic clinic at called The Learning Lab @ Lesley, and he served as the Co-Director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Development at the Cambridge Health Alliance. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, in the Department of Psychiatry, where he supervises aspiring young psychologists and psychiatry interns.
Dr. Schultz serves on various boards, including the Editorial Advisory Board of a journal called Academic Psychiatry, and the Professional Advisory Board of a website called Inside ADHD.com. He helps to influence the national policy agenda for students with LD as a member of the Professional Advisory Board of the Learning Disabilities Association of America.
A sought after speaker at national an international conferences, Dr. Schultz is dedicated to enhancing people’s understanding of the neurobiology of stress and its impact on learning and social and emotional development. He serves as neuropsychological consultant to several large school districts in the Boston area, and is in schools, working directly with teachers and mental health specialists several days each week.
Dr. Schultz has created several award-winning videotapes, and has written extensively about children with learning challenges. He has a large twitter following, and writes a special education and psychology blog on the Huffington Post. His book, called Nowhere to Hide: Why Kids with ADHD and LD Hate School and What We Can Do About It, which examines the role of stress in learning, has received international acclaim.