Dyslexia, ADHD and Executive Functions (HS - MORAINE - 62060)
Tracking # 20-784994
Course overview
Dyslexia Simulation - from direct experience to understanding Hands-on experiences through simulations, games and practical applications Strategies to strengthen decoding, fluency, and comprehension Build your executive function toolbox! Coaching techniques for training and bolstering attention This recording will present a lively and innovative approach to help students who read below grade level, have difficulty writing, and are terrible spellers. These are the students you see every day that struggle to regulate their attention, and have difficulty with organization, planning and time management. Watch this recording and gain insight into these challenges, and leave equipped with new strategies and skills that include ways to: Invigorate reading instruction Improve reading comprehension Increase focus and flexibility for ADHD Implement time-efficient, independent homework and study skills Individualize strategies for effective executive function Through a dyslexia simulation and numerous practical examples, learn how to improve literacy and learning by using attention decisions, brain re-sets, memory strategies, and time management techniques. You will be offered a framework for effective reading instruction for dyslexia, as well as a toolbox of strategies to manage attention, organization, flexibility, decision-making, and initiative.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Arizona Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Florida Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Speech-Language Pathologist
Speech-Language Pathology Assistant
Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board
Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist
Licensed Independent Social Worker
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
Licensed Professional Counselor
Licensed Social Worker
Marriage and Family Therapist
Registered Social Worker Assistant
Disclosure statements
Financial: Paula Moraine maintains a private practice. She is an author for Jessica Kinsley Publishers and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-Financial: Paula Moraine is the president of the International Dyslexia Association Maryland Branch.