Structured Literacy Closing the Reading Gap

IDA Connecticut

Keynote Speaker in the morning and afternoon sessions.   Lunch is included!  IDA CT Annual meeting from 3:00-3:30pm.

Courtyard by Marriott Hartford Cromwell

This presentation provides a detailed explanation of the key features of Structured Literacy approaches and contrasts them with typical classroom practices for literacy assessment and instruction. It also explains why SL approaches are particularly desirable for students with dyslexia, and how certain features of SL, if used in general education, could benefit other students as well.Louise Spear-Swerling, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven CT. Her research interests focus on children’s reading development and literacy difficulties, as well as teacher preparation in reading, and she has published widely on these topics. Her most recent book is The power of RTI and reading profiles: A blueprint for solving reading problems, published by Brookes. She is a member of several journal editorial boards, including those for Annals of Dyslexia, Teaching Exceptional Children, and Reading Psychology. Dr. Spear-Swerling has prepared both general and special educators to teach literacy for many years, and she consults regularly for Connecticut school districts, mostly on cases involving students with severe or persistent literacy difficulties. In 2009 she served on the working group for the International Dyslexia Association that helped to produce national IDA professional standards for teachers of reading. Currently she is helping to revise Connecticut’s guidelines on identification of children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities.Devin Kearns, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor at the NEAG School of Education at UCONN. His presentation will discuss Cutting Edge Approaches to Intervention: Compensation Strategies for Students with Dyslexia. The West Hartford Public Schools Dyslexia Steering Committee presentation will be on Paving the Way to Structured Literacy in the Public Schools.

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