[NLA] NAASLN Conference - You won't want to miss this opportunity!

[NAASLN@aol.com]

***Please post this notice on listservs and internal mailing lists for 
persons providing services in: 
•  Adult basic and literacy education
•  Vocational rehabilitation
•  TANF - Human Services, Employment services
•  Mental retardation/developmental disabilities,
•  Persistent mental illnesses
•  Substance abuse
•  Correction education programs


ALERT!  The National Association for Adults with Special Learning Needs - 
NAASLN - will be hosting an international conference, People and Partnerships 
First:  Advocating and Collaborating for Access, Quality, and Outcomes -- in 
Columbus, OH, March 16 - 18, 2003.  

NAASLN provides opportunities for networking, advocacy, links to resources, 
professional 
development, and opportunities for leadership.

Keynoting the conference will be Andy Imparato, President and CEO of the 
American Association for People with Disabilities.  Imparato will be 
addressing the Routes to Impacting Local, State, and Federal Legislation for 
Persons with Disabilities.  In addition to his keynote, Imparato will also be 
hosting several smaller sessions on Techniques for Advocating for People with 
Disabilities in the Current Political Climate. 

The conference will offer over 75 sessions for practitioners, administrators, 
and employers. Presentations will include research, cutting-edge models, and 
practical ways to better serve adults with special learning needs, in 
addition to exhibits targeting products and services for adults with special 
learning needs. Conference sessions will be offered up-to-date information on 
state and national initiatives. 

A Pre-Conference set of all day sessions will be held on Saturday, March 
15th.  Session scheduled to date include:
Brain Research - Understanding the Neurological Functioning of Persons with 
Special Learning Needs -  Dr. Dale Jordan
Accessing Accommodations on the GED -- The GED Testing Service
Leadership Development for Learners with Special Learning Needs -- NIFL

National associations and organizations are quickly joining forces as 
partners with NAASLN to promote this conference.  Visit our website -- 
www.naasln.org -- for more      up-to-date conference and membership 
information.  For questions -- contact us directly at naasln at aol.com.

Below is the tentative listing of sessions.  

Teaching Adult Learners with Low-Level Reading Skills

Teaching Math to Adults with Learning Differences

Vocabulary Development

Courses, Careers, Cooperation, and Closure: Partnering Disability Services

It Didn't Just Go Away Because they Grew Older: Dyslexia/ADD/SLD Affects 
Adults in Many Different Ways

Multisensory Structured Language Education: More Than Theories -- Practical, 
Accredited, Curriculum for the Dyslexic/ADD/SLD Learner

Building a Brain-Compatible Classroom

Strategies for Managing Information Overload: ERIC and the World Wide Web

Read Naturally

The Individual Accommodations Model (IAM): Ensuring the Success of Students 
with Disabilities (SWD) in Postsecondary Settings

The ABCs of Teaching Reading to Adults with Severe Reading Problems

All Great Minds Don't Think Alike

Don't Tell Me How To Study, Teach Me How

A Model Literacy Program for Dyslexia/ADD/SLD Adults

Helping Adult Educators Understand Disability Disclosure

MR/DD -- What It Is And What It Is Not

Bridges Over Corrections

Brain Research -- Understanding the Neurological Functioning of Persons with 
Special Learning Needs -- What Every Service Provider Needs to Know

Mental Health and Biochemical Challenges that Hide Beneath the Surface of LD

Access to Success: Adult Basic Education for the Visually Impaired

Puzzle Pieces: Integrating PowerPath, Bridges to Practice, HeartMath, and 
Learning Styles to Improve Student Outcomes in Missouri Department of 
Corrections Schools

The 3A's -- Ability, Achievement, and Attitude  Part 1, Overview and Theory

Project ACCESS Transition Academy: A Model Program for Transition to Adult 
Learning

Overcoming & Becoming Yourself: From Victim to Victor Using Recovery 
Principles and Practices 

Help! I Can't Show What I know on Tests!

Special Education and Juvenile Justice

Transition Needs of Students with Emotional Disturbance

Emotions!  The Prerequisite to Learning

PowerPath to Basic Learning

Providing Services to Persons with Persistent Mental Illnesses

EMDR Research: Adults with Special Learn Needs Turn from Victims to Victors

The Impact of Trauma and Human Crisis on the Brain, Life, and Learning

Serving Persons with Special Needs:  Cultural Awareness

Resiliency:  Key Factors to Building Empowered Individuals

TRANSITIONS!: An Important Plan for the Future! 

L2000+  A model for Leadership development needed leaders in the field of BHC

Learning Disabilities and Adults with Low Reading Skills:  What's the 
Connection?

Disability Services at Columbus State and Other 2-Year Institutions

Learning Styles and Special Need Learners

Transitions & Accommodations: Education Programs -- On the Job Training 

Vision and LD - a Look at The Effects of Long-Term Vision Problem

CASAS and POWER for Learners with MR/DD and LD

ESL and Special Needs

Systemic Change -- Implementing a LD Screening and Accommodations in a 
Correction Setting

Collaborations and Partnerships:  ABE and TANF

Bridging the Gap:  Best Practices for Instructing Adults Who are Blind or 
Visually Impaired

MR/DD:  Best Practices for Building Empowered Consumers

MH Consumers -- Consumer Operated Services

Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Learning Difficulties

GED Test Accommodations:  What you need to know to request accommodations

Reading Psychology Reports:  The In's and Out's

Hearing Impaired -  Best Practices for Programs and Services

The GED -- Ensuring Accommodations for Special Need Learners

Scotopic Sensitivity/Irlen Syndrome:   The Impact of Color on 
Reading….Research and Practice

The Irlen Syndrome -- Screening and Remediating

Transition Skills for the Incarcerated