READING: 3 AMAZING ACTIVITIES

Reading: 3 Amazing Activities for Improving

Whether you are a parent, teacher, tutor, speech and language professional, occupational therapist, or other educator, you may have found that teaching reading is not a simple task. It may seem than all people should automatically learn how to read using one really good method, yet people are so different that there is no single method that works well for everyone:

One method works for most but others don’t “get it”
Another method works well for the hardest cases but it takes years to complete
Even the multi-sensory programs don’t bring some students to fluency
Even if we get fluent readers, there may also be comprehension issues
Sometimes we get good readers, but it doesn’t translate into academic success overall

Please join Kathy Johnson, M Ed as she brings to light the many facets of reading and how to get to the underlying causes of reading failure: the wiring of the brain.

She will include in the webinar:

A case study
Decoding: affected by auditory processing, visual processing and cognitive skills like processing speed and memory
Comprehension: affected by vocabulary, language, processing speed, memory, and visualization
Activities will include
- Auditory exercise for decoding
- Processing speed exercise for fluency
- Visual memory exercise for comprehension

To download a sample of the Growing Brains Everyday Curriculum, please go to:

http://pyramidofpotential.com/files/106533.pdf

Kathy received training in order to bring therapies to others which included Brain Gym� 101 by Emily Eisner, Primitive Reflex Training by Samuel A. Berne, OD, Therapeutic Listening by Sheila Frick, Samonas Listening by Jill Stowell, PACE by Learning Rx, and Phono-Graphix by Read America. In 2000, Kathy started The Hunter School for struggling students, in which she and her assistant taught third through eighth graders required academics while remediating their struggles through therapy during the school hours. In 2002, she started an educational consulting business to screen and remediate students one at a time. Since then she has also given lectures and workshops to individuals and schools and wrote the Pyramid of Potential DVD/workbook series for families. In 2010, she published her first book, The Roadmap From Learning Disabilities to Success, and Growing Brains Everyday Curriculum in 2012. Since 2009, Mrs. Johnson has given professional development conferences on Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dysgraphia throughout the country for MEDS-PDN/PESI as well as customized in-service days to schools and clinics.

Mrs. Johnson earned her Master’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany where she instructed faculty and staff in the use of computers, was an adjunct professor at Schenectady County Community College, and taught at The Adirondack School of Northeastern New York.