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Remediating Cognitive Skills for Students with Learning Disabilities

About This Webinar

Students with learning disabilities often have deficits in core underlying cognitive functions, such as working memory, executive function, and visual and auditory processing. Traditional support for students with learning disabilities has often focused on accommodations and strategies to work around the weaker cognitive areas. Research is now showing the potential to build working memory, executive function, attention and other cognitive processes in ways, rather than working around them, with dramatic impact on academic performance. Join us as we explore the science of remediating cognitive gaps.

Agenda
  • The Cognitive Skills Associated with Reading and Math
  • Principles of Cognitive Skill Development
  • Research on the Impact of Cognitive Skill Development on Academic Performance
Categories:
EDUCATION & LEARNING HEALTH & WELLNESS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE & TECH
Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Free
Webinar ID: 6819434f49e4
Featured Presenters
Webinar hosting presenter Betsy Hill
Betsy Hill is an experienced educator and President of BrainWare Learning Company. She has studied the application of neuroscience to teaching and learning with Dr. Patricia Wolfe and other experts and works with educators, clinicians and corporate trainers on using neuroscience research to address some of the most perplexing problems in education, including closing the gap for historically underperforming students. She addressed issues of college and career preparedness as a trustee and board chair at Chicago State University. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching and an MBA from Northwestern University, and teaches strategy at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the University of Illinois Chicago.

I like to describe myself as a "recovering" educator, but the truth is that I am more excited than ever about what neuroscience is uncovering about the brain and how we can use that information to enable each individual to reach his or her cognitive potential. I'm here to share what I've been learning over the last ten years and to continue learning from others in this amazing and fast developing field.
Webinar hosting presenter Sara Sawtelle
Sara M. Sawtelle, Ph.D. is the Director of Scientific Affairs for The BrainWare Company. She has served many roles in education prior to her current work—from instructional technology coordinator & chemistry teacher to training director to college chemistry professor at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN and the University of Memphis. Dr. Sawtelle received her Ph.D. from Boston College. Her career is focused on helping people learn, which includes the value of neuroscience-based tools in education at all levels, and helping people understand the value of field research.

I like to call myself a consummate learner on how we can better utilize the learning from the world around us to make informed decisions about better ways to learn, focusing on making the information shared something that will be more appealing and engaging. I currently serve as a part-time substitute teacher in two area school districts, which gives me even more perspective on learning.
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Educators, parents, clinicians and others who want to use the latest neuroscience research in practical ways to help their students, children and themselves reach their full potential.
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