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You're invited to the Read Across America Celebration on April 10th at 5:30 pm at Cuyahoga County Community College's Jerry Sue Thornton Center! Join us for an inspiring evening with keynote speaker Steve Potash, CEO of OverDrive, enjoy delightful hors d’oeuvres and drinks, and witness the recognition of the third Kurt Karakul Literacy Award winner, America SCORES Cleveland! RSVP today at www.literacycooperative.org/raa2024

This is a very important article to read if you're trying to get your child assessed for a specific learning disability. Basically, due to the Covid-19 era disruption in teaching and support, there will be a higher rate of error in diagnosing - both ways. Make sure you read this and be prepared. If you need any guidance or clarification, please visit our website and contact us. https://www.lda-oh.org/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-022-00052-0

Join this webinar on May 17th, at 11am EST
Meeting the needs of students with specific learning disabilities involving oral and written skills requires a firm grasp of how sound/word knowledge and sentence/discourse (plus vocabulary) knowledge interact as two separate but essential dimensions of language ability.

The Simple View of Reading (SVR), combining word-decoding and language comprehension, offers a way to understand how oral and written language abilities interact, with implications for explaining these relationships to parents and teachers.

Without basic language comprehension skills for spoken language, students may read aloud with a degree of competency, yet not understand what they are reading and be unable to answer language comprehension questions on a test,

In this session, participants will learn to use a quadrant model based on the SVR, and apply it to information from case examples for students assessed with the Student Language Scale (SLS; Nelson, Howes, & Anderson, 2018), Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS; Nelson, Plante, Helm-Estabrooks, & Hotz, 2016), and curriculum-based language assessment (Nelson, 1989) to show how to combine information from these varied sources to plan efficient and effective interventions for students with diverse but connected language and literacy learning needs.

Join us for this webinar live on May 17th, at 11am EST, or watch the recording, which will be distributed to all registrants.

Register here: https://ldaamerica.org/register-for-planning-interventions-for-students-with-oral-written-language-learning-needs/

This is awesome! Hope someone can take advantage of this.

🎻 Violin learning is available after school at the Thea Bowman Center. This program is in partnership with Nathan Hale School and children can learn how to play the violin and engage in singing. Children K- 8th grade will participate in a community performance at the center and in the community.

Please call 216-491-0699 to register for the music program or complete form online.
https://www.theabowmancenter.org/youth

It's been Teacher Appreciation Week, and we just want to thank all the teachers and tutors out there who are working so hard to help every ADULT succeed!

April is Stress Awareness Month, and laughter is key to mental health. Make someone laugh on Thursday and watch the stress float away! An idea: think of a recent April Fool's prank!

International Moment of Laughter Day - April 14 International Moment of Laughter Day is the perfect opportunity to laugh away your worries.

Thank you Burger King, Popeye & Tim Hortons Cafe and Bake Shop for their commitment to ban PFAS from their packaging. Congress, now it's your turn - time to from food packaging nationwide.

Anyone can help by emailing your congressperson and ask them to co-sponsor this bill!

You can learn more here: https://ldaamerica.org/about-us/healthy-children-project/

Goal for 2022: be there for more Ohions than ever before! Merry Christmas all!

The LDA of Ohio and The LD Edge Network wish you all the very best in 2022! Thank you for your support and look for more to come next year!

The LDA of Ohio and The LD Edge Network wish you all the very best in 2022! Thank you for your support and look for more to come next year!

On this Giving Tuesday, we ask that you consider joining the LDA of Ohio who works to assist parents, children, and adults with learning challenges to navigate the nuances of getting accommodations and support. We need adults with learning challenges to help guide our programs, parents and professionals who can provide expertise and services. This is a never-ending plight for some. Will you join us in our mission?

https://ldaamerica.org/membership/join-lda/

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