Dyslexia & The Importance of Early Screening

Monday June 5, 2023 6pm

Sponsored by Duxbury Special Education Department in collaboration with Duxbury SEPAC

Lectores para el futuro invites you to join our next conference: Cognitive Development and Assessment of Language Based Difficulties.

Saturday, April 22 · 8:30am - 4pm AST

Colegio Puertorriqueño de Niñas 208 Calle Turquesa Guaynabo, Guaynabo 00969 Puerto Rico

Cognitive Development and Assessment of Language Based Difficulties Tickets, Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 8:30 AM | Eventbrite

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Neurobiology of Reading and Early Literacy Development by Dr. Nadine Gaab, PhD

World Literacy Summit 2023

09:45-10:35am (GMT+1) Monday, April 3, 2023

Moving from a Reactive to a Proactive Model in Education: Neurobiology, early identification and screening strategies | Nadine Gaab

Dr. Nadine Gaab
Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

N. Gaab - Moving from a Reactive to a Proactive Model in Education: How a Neurobiological Framework of Typical and Atypical Reading Development Can Inform Educational Practice and Policy — Faculty of Psychology — TU Dresden (tu-dresden.de)

Jan 27, 2023 16:00-17:00 CET/10:00-11:00 EST

2023 Texas ALTA Summit - The Academic Language Therapy Association (altaread.org)

Join the 2023 Texas ALTA Summit: Growing with Dyslexia – to hear about the latest dyslexia research on brain development, including:

• From birth to 3 years old

• Kindergarten to First Grade

• Beyond scores for screening

• Executive Function

• Best writing techniques for Elementary students

• Growing successfully with Dyslexia

8:05 AM – 9:50 AM

KEYNOTE: Solving the Dyslexia Paradox: The Importance of Brain Development, Early Identification, and Intervention

Professor Nadine Gaab, Associate Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Learning trajectories are shaped by the dynamic interplay between nature and nurture, which starts in utero and continues throughout the lifespan. Learning differences are often not identified until childhood or adolescence, but diverging trajectories of brain development may be present as early as prenatally. Furthermore, children’s experiences and their interactions with the environment surrounding them have long-lasting influences on brain development and future outcomes. This talk will focus on learning differences in reading acquisition and address early identification and screening for literacy milestones and reading disabilities, including developmental dyslexia. It will provide the WHY behind the screening movement with a strong focus on the neurobiology of reading development and reading disabilities. It will introduce the ‘Dyslexia Paradox’ and further outline the important constructs to screen for with a developmental lens and discuss practical steps for implementing a screening protocol in various educational settings. The session will conclude with an overview of different screening instruments and criteria for picking the best screener. Finally, the implications of these findings for contemporary challenges in educational and clinical practice, as well as policy, are discussed.

Dr. Nadine Gaab will host a webinar, “Screening for Early Literacy Milestones, Dyslexia, and other Reading Disabilities: The WHY, WHEN, WHO, HOW and WHERE on  September 28, 2022 from 3:30-4:30 pm

Audience: General & Special Educators, Administrators, Parents, Caregivers and Community Members Interested in Early Literacy, Dyslexia & Reading Disabilities

Cost: FREE please register for ZOOM Link here

This session will address:

• Screening for literacy milestones and reading disabilities, including developmental dyslexia in early grades (pre-K-2nd)

• The WHY behind the screening movement with a strong focus on the neurobiology of reading development and reading disabilities.

• The ‘Dyslexia Paradox’

• Important constructs to screen for with a developmental lens

• Practical steps for implementing a screening protocol in various educational or clinical settings.

• Different screening instruments and criteria for picking the right screener

• Educational and clinical implications of screening and early identification in young children.

WEBINAR: Screening for Early Literacy Milestones, Dyslexia, and other Reading Disabilities – Maine DOE Newsroom

The Committee for Attorneys with Disabilities of the Boston Bar Association Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Section is hosting a program on June 9th at 4pm on Zoom to address the inclusion of neurodiversity in DEI strategies.

The panel will define neurodiversity and explain why it should occupy an equal place in the broader DEI conversation, alongside a shift in the mindset of the legal profession toward genuine inclusion of attorneys with diverse abilities and learning differences, both with visible and non-apparent disabilities.

Salomon Chiquiar-Rabinovich will moderate the discussion with Nadine Gaab, Amy Root, MPH, Kent Sinclair, and Heidi Alexander (she/her/hers).

Register here: https://bit.ly/3MzicwJ

Reading is a social justice issue that requires moving towards equity and multi-tiered support for all children. The ability to read provides students with opportunities to explore identity, diversity, anti-bias, and engage in meaningful and appropriate social action behaviors.

This summit focuses on defining what dyslexia is, how to screen for it, and what we can do in our classrooms with all children including those who present with learning differences like dyslexia.

Dr. Nadine Gaab will be giving the following presentation:

Typical and atypical reading development: Neurobiology, early identification, and screening strategies

• Brain correlates of reading development

• Early identification of children at-risk

• Practical strategies for the screening process

Dyslexia Beyond Awareness | Zoom Summit | May 2022 (joyfulliteracyonline.com)

Join educators, lawyers, researchers, policy makers, and other thought leaders in a 2-day virtual conference discussing research and other current topics in advocacy in education for children with language-based learning disabilities, hosted by the Dyslexia Policy Institute.

Day 1: Monday, April 25, 2022; 10:00am-4:30pm
Day 2: Tuesday, April 26, 2022; 10:45am-4:30pm

Dr. Nadine Gaab will be speaking on the Policy Panel at 12:00pm-1:15pm on Tuesday, August 26, 2022.

For registration information please visit: www.dyslexiapolicyinstitute.org

The Right to Read Symposium will be held by the International Dyslexia Association Ontario where the recommendations proposed by the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Right to Read Inquiry will be investigated and unpacked.

During this full-day professional learning opportunity, leading international experts will discuss the Inquiry's key recommendations,  why each is important, and how educators and policy-makers can begin to work together to implement these necessary changes.

Right to Read Symposium Registration - The International Dyslexia Association Ontario Branch (idaontario.com)

A translated version of this presentation will be broadcasted on March 21, 6:00pm EST here.

A avaliação em larga escala é um processo que envolve desde a coleta de informações relevantes sobre os objetos educacionais até a síntese dessas informações, para que sejam tomadas decisões cabíveis. Nesse processo, é necessária a elaboração de um ou mais instrumentos avaliativos, que devem ser adequados ao que se quer avaliar. Segundo a Ph.D Nadine Gaab, a avaliação educacional é um sistema de informações que tem como objetivos fornecer diagnóstico e subsídios para a implementação ou manutenção de políticas educacionais. Ela deve ser concebida também para prover um contínuo monitoramento do sistema educacional com vistas a detectar os efeitos positivos ou negativos de políticas adotadas.

Prof Nadine Gaab will be joining Royal Holloway Psychology on February 9th to discuss the typical and atypical reading brain. Interested? Sign up here. bit.ly/3n7qFMP

The Typical and Atypical Reading Brain: How a Neurobiological Framework of Early Language and Reading Development Can Inform Clinical and Educational Practice/Policy

Learning trajectories are shaped by the dynamic interplay between nature and nurture, starting in utero and continuing throughout the lifespan. Learning differences are often not identified until childhood or adolescence, but diverging trajectories of brain development may be present as early as prenatally. Furthermore, children’s experiences and their interactions with their environment have long-lasting influences on brain development and future outcomes. This talk will primarily focus on learning differences in reading acquisition and will present results from our longitudinal behavioral and neuroimaging studies that characterize differences in learning to read as a complex outcome of cumulative risk and protective factors interacting within and across genetic, neurobiological, cognitive, and environmental levels from infancy to adulthood. Results are discussed within an early multifactorial framework of learning differences, emphasizing screening, early identification, and preventive strategies. Finally, the implications of these findings for contemporary challenges in educational and clinical practice and policy are discussed.

Get ready for Literacy Academy Live 2022 | Ohio Department of Education

Join the Department for Literacy Academy Live 2022. The Literacy Academy will provide professional learning to support the use of evidence-based language and literacy practices and assist districts, schools and early childhood education programs working toward raising literacy achievement.

Literacy Academy Live 2022 will include four livestream keynotes this January and February. Each keynote will feature a conversation between national experts, bringing the lens of both research and practice to important topics regarding evidence-based language and literacy instruction for students from birth through grade 12.

Keynote sessions will take place from 1-2 p.m. as follows:

• “Debunking Myths about Dyslexia and Brain-based Teaching: Implications for System Change,” with Dr. Nadine Gaab and Dr. Tracy Weeden on Jan. 14, 2022.

• “The Science of Reading and English Learners: Instruction that Makes a Difference,” with Dr. Elsa Cardenas Hagan and Dr. Claude Goldenberg on Jan. 21, 2022.

• “Meaningful Language: Intentional Conversation and Play in Early Care and Education,” with Dr. Susan Neuman and Dr. Lucy Hart Paulson on Jan. 28, 2022.

• “Leading Literacy, Growing Equity: How School Leaders Can Improve Reading Instruction for All Students,” with Dr. Doug Fisher and Kareem Weaver on Feb. 4, 2022.

Registration is not required. Simply visit the Literacy Academy Live 2022 webpage to access each livestream keynote at its scheduled date and time. All keynote conversations and resources will be available on demand on the Literacy Academy Live webpage after the livestream. The Department encourages all districts, schools and early childhood education programs to use these resources as a part of a comprehensive professional learning plan that is data driven, sustained, intensive, collaborative, job embedded and instructionally focused.

Direct questions about Literacy Academy Live 2022 to ComprehensiveLiteracy@education.ohio.gov.

Dr. Nadine Gaab will be a panelist on the panel: All means ALL: Diversifying Literacy to Meet the Needs of Every Student, at the New York City Department of Education Literacy Summit.

Registration Information: Literacy Summit Tickets, Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite