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you can't wait for a regional workshop to be held
somewhere in your area, you might consider organizing
a local one yourself. It may be easier than you think.
You
need a room the right size for somewhere between
three and about twenty people available for three
consecutive days. We can supply the presenter and
run the workshop. Some of the expenses would be
born by the participants and the rest can often
be raised by a PTA or financed from the school system's
teacher-training budget. If you are interested in
the idea, get in touch with Dorothy van den Honert
at 413-442-2687 or email info@dyslexia.org.
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Here
is a sample of the kind of brochure you might want to send
out:
Announcing
a Training Workshop on
Reading
from Scratch
with Enhanced Lateralization
Sponsored
by:
Time
and Place:
Dates:
Location:
Registration:
Contact or e-mail __________ for registration form.
Fee:
Materials
required: Reading from Scratch
program including RfS cassettes.
Total
Number of Workshop Hours:
The
Material
Reading
from Scratch covers all phonics rules and spelling generalizations
needed for reading and writing. Grammar, syntax, and sentence
construction are entertainingly presented for the older student.
Because lessons are built pyramid fashion, with each new rule
adding only to what has already been learned, review is built
in inconspicuously and without boredom. This material produces
immediate and continuous success in the student, breaking
into the despair that usually accompanies the dyslectic reader's
attempts to learn to read.
The
presenter
DOROTHY
VAN DEN HONERT
- Certified
as teacher of secondary math and moderate special needs
- Learning-Disabilities
teacher, public school 11 years
- Private
tutor 15 years
- Published
in Journal of Learning-Disabilities, New England Journal
of Medicine, Dyslexia, and Reading Today
- Presenter
at Orton Dyslexia Society, Rodin Remediation Foundation,
and Literacy Volunteers conferences
- Conductor
of various reading workshops in Massachusetts.
- Dyslexia
consultant to five Adult Learning Centers in Massachusetts
and Windham Southwest Union in southwest Vermont
- Dyslexia
consultant to Berkshire Community College
- Cited
for work on EL by Dirk Bakker in de Wit, Bolle, & van
Meed, "Psychologen over het kind," Groningen,
The Netherlands
Course
Description
A
training course will explain how to identify dyslexia in a
reading-disabled student. Lectures and demonstration lessons
will show participants how to achieve optimum use of the material
with all students. No previous recollection of phonics or
spelling rules is required. It will enable educators as well
as friendly, intelligent non-professionals to become successful
tutors for students with a wide variety of reading problems
besides dyslexia, and has been exceptionally effective in
ESL classes. The workshop is designed for educators, parents,
home schoolers, and psychologists as well as Special Education
teachers.
Especially
for Dyslectics
Most
importantly, the dichotic technique of Enhanced Lateralization,
specifically for use with dyslectic students, will be fully
explained and demonstrated. The dichotic technique (EL) finally
enables dyslectic students to achieve fast and permanent improvement
in reading. The average reading gain is over two years with
only one year of teaching. Many students have gained three
and four years in a year or less, enabling them to catch up
with (and sometimes surpass) their agemates.
- "Dorothy
van den Honert changed our son's life." Penny Childs,
parent
- "RfS
- is remarkably effective for severely dyslectic children."
Jim Crosson, Director of Special Services, Vermont
- "RfS
is highly effective-interesting-and fun." Sandra Thompson,
parent
- "-impressed
with your ideas on remediation-"George Hynd, professor,
University of Georgia
- "RfS
out-performs other reading programs in getting consistent
and rapid results." Harriet Nieman, SPED teacher
- "Your
method is truly impressive." Madeleine Culpo, grandmother
- "Students
using EL retained material better than other students."
Zoe Dalheim, adult education teacher
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