DCIDA and American University welcome you to an exciting afternoon of exploring topics related to dyslexia. The Improving Awareness conference features nationally known speakers, Dr. Roberto Olivardia, Emily Hanford, and Drs. Sally and Bennett Shaywitz. Visit with local exhibitors and sponsors onsite.
Conference Speakers
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Afternoon Speaker: Dr. Roberto Olivardia-Promoting Self-Esteem and Positive Identity While Reducing Anxiety and Depression in Dyslexic Students
Dr. Olivardia is a Lecturer of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Associate at McLean Hospital. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he specializes in the treatment of ADHD, executive functioning issues, and issues that face students with Dyslexia (low self-esteem, anxiety, depression). He sits on the Scientific Advisory Board for ADDitude Magazine, and serves on the Professional Advisory Boards for CHADD, and The Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA). He is an active member for Decoding Dyslexia-Massachusetts.
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Afternoon Speaker: Emily Hanford
Emily Hanford is a senior education correspondent at APM Reports, part of American Public Media. She has been working in public media for more than two decades as a reporter, producer, editor, news director, and program host. Hanford has been at American Public Media since 2008 where she produces education documentaries that air on public radio stations nationwide and can also be heard on the Educate podcast. Her work has won numerous honors, including a duPont-Columbia Award, a Casey Medal, and awards from EWA and The Associated Press. In 2017, Hanford won the Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association. She is a frequent speaker and moderator and is the host of the Ways & Means podcast.
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Sally L. Smith Distinguished Lectures 2020:
Drs. Sally and Bennett Shaywitz
Sally E Shaywitz, MD Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity
A physician-scientist, Dr. Sally Shaywitz carries out the cutting-edge research to advance the science of dyslexia and devotes herself to caring for children and adults who are dyslexic; her studies provide the basic framework and details for the 21st century scientific understanding of dyslexia. Dr Shaywitz’s more recent studies have provided the long-sought empiric evidence for the unexpected nature of dyslexia. She has developed the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreenTM for use by teachers to efficiently and reliably screen kindergarteners and first graders for dyslexia. A study in progress examines the relationship between measures of adult literacy and the reading of those same adults as children. Dr. Shaywitz is the author of over 250 scientific articles and chapters, as well as the award-winning book, Overcoming Dyslexia (Alfred Knopf, 2003, Vintage, 2005), which details fundamental scientific findings on dyslexia and how to translate this scientific knowledge into policy and clinical practice. It is the top-selling trade book on dyslexia since its publication.
Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D, Professor of Pediatrics & Neurology
Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D. is the Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development at Yale University and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. As a physician-scientist Dr. Shaywitz performs cutting-edge neuroscience research to advance the neuroscience of dyslexia and cares for children and adults who are dyslexic. Both a child neurologist and neuroscientist, Dr. Shaywitz is dedicated to ensuring that scientific progress in dyslexia is translated into policy and practice. His research applies functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to understand the neurobiology of reading and dyslexia in children and adults. Recent research by Dr. Shaywitz examines differences in brain connectivity between dyslexic and typical reading children, revealing that in dyslexia brain connectivity is disrupted to the word-form area, an area critical to reading fluency, and that connectivity is disrupted between reading and attention systems. The author of over 300 scientific papers, Dr. Shaywitz has served for much of his career as Chief of Child Neurology at Yale School of Medicine, stepping down in 2015 to focus his energies on increasing public awareness and understanding of dyslexia and ensuring that 21st Century knowledge of the science of dyslexia is used to inform the education and approach to children and adults who are dyslexic.
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Overcoming Dyslexia books will be available for purchase and signing.
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DATES: Early Bird 2/9-2/28 11:30pm |
Regular Rates 2/29 -3/28 |
| DCIDA Member Rate* |
$35.00 |
$55.00 |
| Non-Member Rate |
$55.00 |
75.00 |
| Teacher Rate* |
$30 |
$30 |
| Student Rate* |
$20 |
$20 |
*Proper identification will be required at event registration
4 ALTA CEUs for eligible participants
Event Sponsors
