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Conferences, Events, and Workshops

On the website National Association of Special Education talk about different place in the United States where teachers and parents can go to learn more about children with special needs and how to deal with them.Each workshop relate to education and everyday life, how people with disabilities deal with every day things .You can check the website for more info......

I think that this workshops can real work and help you learn more about students and your children that have disabilities.

It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend

"As any parent, teacher, coach, or caregiver of a learning disabled child knows, every learning disability has a social component. The ADD child constantly interrupts conversations and doesn't follow directions. The child with visual-spatial issues loses his belongings and causes his siblings to be late to school. The child with paralinguistic difficulties appears stiff and wooden because she fails to gesture when she talks. These children are socially out of step with their classmates and peers, and often they are ridiculed or ostracized for their differences. A successful social life is immeasurably important to a child's happiness, health, and development, but until now, no book has provided practical, expert advice on helping learning disabled children achieve social success. For more than thirty years, Richard Lavoie has lived with and taught learning disabled children. His bestselling PBS videos, including How Difficult Can This Be?: The F.A.T. City Workshop, and his sellout lectures and workshops have made him one of the most popular and respected experts in the field. At last, Rick's pioneering techniques for helping children achieve a happy and successful social life are available in book form. It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend offers practical strategies to help learning disabled children ages six through seventeen navigate the treacherous social waters of their school, home, and community. Rick examines the special social issues surrounding a wide variety of learning disabilities, including ADD and other attentional disorders, anxiety, paralinguistics, visual-spatial disorders, and executive functioning. Then he provides proven methods and step-by-step instructions forhelping the learning disabled child through almost any social situation, including choosing a friend, going on a playdate, conducting a conversation, reading body language, overcoming shyness and low self-esteem, keeping track of belongings, living with siblings, and adjusting to new settings and situations. Perhaps the most important component of this book is the author's compassion. It comes through on every page that Rick feels the intensity with which children long for friends and acceptance, the exasperation they can cause in others, and the joy they feel in social connection. It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend answers the most intense yet, until now, silent need of the parents, teachers, and caregivers of learning disabled children -- or anyone who is associated with a child who needs a friend."

This is a great book for people to read to understand how children with disabilities and with out, so that you know why their having social problem's.

In How Difficult Can This Be?

In the work shop F.A.T. City Richard Lavoie talks about how teachers,parents, and others need to learn and understand more about students that have disabilities.He creates a workshop that dramatize a classroom,Lavoie gets a group of teachers,psychologists,parents,and kids put them through a number of harsh teaching exerises.Demonstrate the traditional kinds of teaching methods that cause frustration,Anxiety,and Tension(F.A.T.) in children with disabilities.He lets the group of people know how he came up with strategiesfor combating fear and teaching effectively.I believe that this is a great teaching tool for all to see and will let you know whats going on in their mind as a student.