Two Day Workshop and Assistive Technology Fair for Parents and Educators of Students Grades 7-12. Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Sheryl Feinstein, Dana Sahian and Melissa Cait.

February 23 – February 24, 2012
York Catholic District School Board Office
320 Bloomington Road West, Aurora, Ontario

Teenage behavior, it’s wild and wooly; so intriguing and perplexing it’s enough to bring adults to their knees exclaiming, “Why can’t they act like adults?” Investigating the brain informs parents and teachers about teenagers with disabilities, including learning disabilities, ADHD, and teenage anxiety and mental health. Research explains why some disabilities and illnesses are aggravated during adolescence and others alleviated.  As a result of the extensive transformations occurring in the brain, teenagers are particularly susceptible to environmental forces found at school and home. Technology, drugs and alcohol, and the social media are prevalent and powerful influences in their lives. New research gives fascinating insights into the beneficial and detrimental impacts of such factors on the teenage brain.  Join us to learn more on how to “demystify” the teenage brain.

All too often, the very thought of having to use a computer in school leaves a student feeling ‘different’ from everyone else, even though it is such an “ordinary” thing.  While parents and educators may support, at least in principle, the use of computers, successful implementation continues to be a challenge.  The climate for technology has changed for the better… and for the cooler.  With the advent of the iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, SmartPhone, Android, Mac and new generations of PCs, there is a whole new wave of truly remarkable software that is intuitive to use, easy to find and reasonably priced.  Nonetheless, with this boom, there is information overload. This workshop will help demystify the options for assistive technology and bring to the forefront a number of tools that will make life and learning easier for all students.  Dana Sahian and Melissa Cait, our resident “techies”, have paired up to explain in ‘real world language’ what works for what kind of learner.   Using conventional technologies, Dana and Melissa will demonstrate how to turn the ‘ordinary’ into the ‘extraordinary’.

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