About this event
Dr. Nadine Gaab - Dyslexia, Screening, and Language-Literacy Skills
Join us at the Manitoba Museum (Auditorium) for an insightful event with an online synchronous session with Dr. Nadine Gaab. Learn about dyslexia, screening methods, and how language-literacy skills play a crucial role. This blended (online and in-person) event is a fantastic opportunity to expand your knowledge and engage with experts in the field. Don't miss out on this informative session!
Dr. Gaab will provide a synchronous online session. We will have a blended audience for those who can join us in Winnipeg, and those who prefer a zoom meeting.
We will serve a light snack with beverages starting at 4:30pm. Dr. Gaab will begin at 5:30.
We will send out a zoom link to all attendees closer to the date. We will offer recording to all attendees with a link to view (not download) the recording within 1 week of the session.
We have 2 ticket options for you to indicate if you will attend online or in-person to help with planning.
Nadine Gaab
Dr. Nadine Gaab is an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital Boston and the Harvard Medical School, and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Gaab’s research at Boston Children’s Hospital Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience focuses on children diagnosed with or at risk for developmental disorders, particularly language-based learning disabilities.
The Gaab Lab explores questions related to learning disabilities and especially typical and atypical language and reading development. Current research is looking at neural pre-markers of dyslexia in infants and preschoolers, brain correlates of reading fluency, and potential connections between musical training and language and reading development.
More Information about Dr. Gaab:
The GaabLab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education focuses on auditory and language processing in the human brain and its applications for the development of typical and atypical language and literacy skills from infancy to adolescence. https://dms.hms.harvard.edu/people/nadine-gaab
Gaab Lab
https://www.gaablab.com/nadine-gaab
Harvard School of Education - https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/nadine-gaab
Dr. Nadine Gaab is an Associate Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Nadine’s work focuses on developmental cognitive neuroscience, particularly in language-based learning disabilities. Her research in the GaabLab examines the development of typical and atypical language and literacy skills in the pediatric brain and pre-markers of learning disabilities and the development of screening tools for screening literacy milestones and dyslexia.
She is the 2019 recipient of the LDA Award (Learning Disabilities Association America) for her work on learning disabilities. In 2018, Nadine was presented with the Allan C. Crocker Award for her advocacy on behalf of children with dyslexia and reading disabilities and efforts around the recent passage of the Massachusetts screening legislation (under the guidance of Decoding Dyslexia MA). She has also been recognized by the International Dyslexia Association in her receipt of the Norman Geschwind Memorial lecture 2020 and the Alice H. Garside Award for outstanding leadership in advancing the science and advocacy of dyslexia. She is an international speaker, frequently presenting to teachers on the brain science of typical and atypical literacy development.