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Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2066] Preview - NAASLN Sessions at COABEGreetings ListServ Readers!
The National Association for Adults with Special Learning Needs is pleased to announce another great NAASLN Track at COABE '08.   
All participants at NAASLN's sessions will be offered an introductory NAASLN membership at no cost!
The listing of this years' sessions include:Special Learning Needs:  Incidence and Implications for Building Persistence 
Part A & BLaura Weisel, Ph.D.,  Clinical Director, The TLP Group 
Barbara Arguedas, Director, Santa Fe Community College, NM
Susan Geary, Instructor, Santa Fe Community College, NM
Karen Hibbert, Director of Education, West Central Community Corrections,  OH 
Margaret Girkins, Director of ABE, Flathead Valley Community College, MT
                 
Tuesday, April 29
Part A - 9:30-10:30 am
Part B - 11:00 - Noon
As highlighted in the Spring 2008 KET Quarterly, the incidence of special learning needs in the adult basic and literacy population is astonishingly high!  This comes to no surprise to instructors, but what does it mean if these needs go unmet?   
In Part A - The 3 Year Incidence of Special Learning Needs Study in ABE will be presented. What does this data mean for your program and your services?  What are programs doing to identify and address the key challenges to persistence, learning gains, and successful transitions? 
In Part B -  Administrators and instructors will enter into a dialogue with participants about what they are doing to address  special needs.  Programs identifying and addressing these needs have, in controlled studies, demonstrated over 200% increases in persistence and 67% increases in post-testing.    
Join this two part session to get the facts straight about the underlying learning issues of ABE students and discuss the systemic shifts that have empowered and enabled learners to overcome learning challenges and show dramatic learning gains. 
          Screening ESOL Learners for Special Learning Needs: An Open DialogueLaura Weisel, Ph.D., Facilitator of Dialogue
Tuesday, 2:15-3:15pm
If the incidence of special learning needs is so very high in the general adult basic and literacy population, what might the incidence be the special learning needs of ESOL students?  
Join this open dialogue session to 1). Discuss the issues in screening ESOL students for special learning needs, 2).  Share what you and your program are doing to identify ESOL students that have learning challenges, and 3).  Identify how ESOL students with special learning needs can be more successful academically and better able to transition into job training  or post secondary programs.Leveling the Playing Field with Adaptations and Accommodations:  
Making the GED Work for Special Need Students!Connie Leading, GED Accommodations Specialist, OH Department of Education 
Mario Payne, GED-TS, Washington DC
Tuesday, 3:45-4:45pm
Adults with special learning needs taking the GED fall into two categories: (1) adults with documented ADA disabilities who require accommodations such as extended time, supervised breaks, scribes, and audiocassettes and (2) adults, for whom teachers have identified learning needs requiring adaptations or modifications such as magnifiers, colored overlays, straight edges, rooms without fluorescent lighting, etc. These later adaptations do not require prior approval by the GED State offices. Both of these areas will be discussed in the presentation.The ADA and Adult Education Bevan Gibson, Director of Professional Development, Southern IL University
Wednesday, 9:30-10:30am
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 has several implications for adult education.  The Illinois Community College Board and the Illinois Adult Education Service Center Network have been working with programs in Illinois to bring them into compliance with the ADA.  Come see what Illinois has been doing and how you might be able to use the information for your state's ADA compliance issues.Serving Offenders with Special Learning Needs: 
A Look at the Problem and New SolutionsAlan Toops,  Executive Director,  The Ohio Literacy Network
Wednesday, 11:00-Noon
Many states are currently implementing holistic diagnostic screening for special learning needs in correction education programs. The findings of offenders' special needs appeared in the Corrections edition of NCSALL's Focus on Basics.   This session offers new data profiling the special learning needs of offenders, discuss how education and others services are being re-designed based upon these needs, and implications for corrections education systemic improvements are happening at both the system and direct service levels.  Undetected and Undiagnosed Vision Problems - 
Obstructions to Literacy and Successful Transition to the WorkforceJoan Hudson-Miller, Library Reproduction Service, CA
Wednesday, 2:15-3:15pm
The percentage of adult learners who are struggling to succeed because of undetected and undiagnosed vision problems is extremely high. Become more familiar with the wide range of mild to severe perceptual problems and impairments, learn some practical screening procedures. and acquire a list of referral resources for evaluation, diagnosis and treatment.Structured Learning for the Unstructured     
Thursday, 9:45-10:45am 
Richard Cooper, Ph.D., Center for Alternative Learning
Many students who have learning or attention problems manifest poor organizational skills and to lack structure.  This presentation will provide participants with techniques to help learners to improve their reading, writing and spelling skills.  Participants will receive handouts that they can use with their students to structure the learning of language.
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