Announcing: The Northeast Association of Learning Specialists
NEALS Spring Conference 2012
The Forman School, Litchfield, Connecticut
Thursday, April 26, 2012, Johnson Arts Center
8:30 a.m.Registration, connect and coffee
9:00 a.m.Opening Remarks
9:30 a.m.Executive Functions in Classroom Learning: Strategies for Assessment and Intervention, George McCloskey, PhD
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m.Educational Technology Panel: iPads and Assistive Technology
2:00 p.m.Closing Remarks and depart for home
Who: Open to NEALS members. Guests are welcome to register as adjunct members
We are grateful to The Forman School for hosting our spring conference this year .George McCloskey, PhD, is a Professor and Director of School Psychology Research at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He earned his BS in psychology, magna cum laude, and received the Departmental Award for Excellence in Psychology from St. Vincent College in 1976. He obtained an MS in school psychology in 1979, and a PhD in school psychology in 1985 from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. McCloskey works with children and adults experiencing various cognitive, learning, and behavior difficulties including ADHD, executive dysfunction, memory problems, reading disability, written expression disability, math disability, head trauma, mental retardation, autism, Asperger's and pervasive developmental delay.
Dr. McCloskey's areas of research interest include cognition and cognitive neuropsychology and the relationship of these fields to learning and classroom instruction, and psychological and educational assessment and the link between assessment and intervention. Of particular interest are the role of executive function in learning and production, reading assessment and instruction, memory process and assessment methodology.
Please register by April 14, 2012 with Kathy Richards at richardk@belmont-hill.org or phone: 617-993-5279. Payment should be sent to: Kathy Richards, Belmont Hill School, 350 Prospect Street, Belmont, MA 02478
Invoice available at www.nealsonline.org ~ Annual membership (which covers all meetings, support, and mailings for the 2011-2012 school year) = $75.00 for Learning Specialists, $100.00 for adjunct members, and $250.00 per school (for multiple memberships)
Questions regarding membership please contact Melissa Rubin at melissa@thestudentfirst.com or phone: 617-877-3414