Cutting Edge Strategies: An Intensive Training on Executive Function Skills



Date/Time
8/24/2015
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Central
Event Type(s)
Member Event
Event Description
Brehm Preparatory School presents Cutting Edge Strategies: An Intensive Training on Executive Function Skills on August 24 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location
John A. Logan College
700 Logan College Rd
Carterville, Il 62918

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Details
Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC-SLP is coming to Southern Illinois to teach special educators, teachers, SLP's, psychologists, parents and professionals hands-on practical strategies to improve Executive Function skills.  Whether you've seen her before, or this is all new, you're sure to walk away with new ideas and strategies to help you better assist clients, students, or your own children.

This seminar is all about providing practical, hands-on activities, and is for both beginners and advanced learners!  From task initiation and execution to time management, learn how to use strategies such as "Future Sketch", "Get Ready, Do, Done", "STOP and Read the Room", and seeing and sensing the passage of time.  Along with learning hands-on and ready-to-use strategies, workshop participants will be able to define Executive Function Skills and Executive Dysfunction.  They will learn how situational awareness, self-talk, forethought and episodic memory are the foundational skills for successful task evaluation.  

Activities will focus on updating participants' knowledge, increasing their understanding of concepts and applications, and promoting evidence-based practice.  For each strategy there will be examples for elementary, middle and high school aged students.  Be sure to provide us with the grades that you teach or the ages of the children that you work with and we will provide you with that age level content for your hands on activities.  

 Through the strategies learn how student's executive function skills advance with age.  Because EF is an age-related skill, often kids exhibit a developmental delay in the acquisition of these skills it can be helpful to understand the strategies that are used for each developmental age.  You learn how to teach students by DOING IT!

For more Information and to register visit http://goo.gl/7ifBpC

 Event Location:
John A. Logan College
700 Logan College Drive
Carterville, IL 62918
(618) 457-0371

Monday, August 24, 2015
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

For more Information and to register visit
http://goo.gl/7ifBpC
 
Event Location:
John A. Logan College
700 Logan College Drive
Carterville, IL 62918
(618) 457-0371

Monday, August 24, 2015
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 

If you have the basics of the theory of executive function skills under your belt, and are still wondering about the "how" to do it with your student or child, you cannot afford to miss this workshop!

CEU's and CPDU's: This workshop has been approved for CEs for Illinois Psychologists and Continuing Education Credits from the Regional Office of Education.

Cancellation Policy:  Refunds due to cancellations are not available.  If the workshop is postponed due to inclement weather, you will receive credit for the rescheduled date.

Brehm Preparatory School is a family-style boarding school for boys and girls, grades 6-12 with complex learning disabilities. Brehm offers a unique holistic program that individually addresses each student’s academic, emotional, and social needs. The Brehm experience includes: a fully accredited high school, individualized academic curriculum, 4:1 student/teacher ratio, team recreational programs, and interscholastic sports, supervised dorm living, medical support, speech language pathologists, and more.

Additional programs at Brehm include a 4-week summer program and the Brehm Arrowsmith Program. Summer Scenarios is an epic, open-ended, multi-player experiential learning adventure where participants discover their own strengths as they play essential roles for their tribes in quests and challenges. The Brehm Arrowsmith Program is founded on neuroscience research and over 30 years of experience demonstrating that it is possible for students to strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying their learning dysfunctions through a program of specific cognitive exercises. For more information, visit www.brehm.org.
 
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