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Please Note: The early registration deadline is Friday, September 24. All registrations received AFTER this date will incur a $50 late fee.

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Doubletree Hotel ~ Berkeley Marina

Conference Room Rate: $125/night

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Conference Scholarships

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All applicants will be notified of their status the week of August 16.

Continuing Education

This conference will offer the following continuing education:

AET - 17.5 CEUs

CA LCSW/MFT - 14 CE units

ASHA - 1.4 CEUs

NASP - 14.5 CPDs

ISBE - 14.5 CPDUs

Call for Volunteers!

If you would like to be a part of making this year’s conference better than ever, join the ranks of volunteers who help to make everything run smoothly.

Volunteers are needed for various duties including room monitors, helping at the bookstore, and more.

Please email for more details!

32nd Annual Conference

"Reading, Writing, and Rage: The Impact of Emotions on Learning"

October 22-24, 2010 in Berkeley, CA

 

Keynote Speaker - Barbara Kalmanson, PhD

"Why Does He Do That?  The Social Side Of Learning Differences"

Kalmanson

A student in the second grade turns into an egg shape under his desk when the excitement in class intensifies.  A fourth grader talks non-stop at his classmates on the yard with no obvious regard for the listener’s lack of interest.  A kindergartener makes her older siblings late for school everyday and has to be escorted to class to locate the room.  A sixth grader annoys his peers as he grabs the caps off the other kids on the yard and runs away, tossing them to the wind.  The desire for friendship, admiration, and acceptance plague the student with learning differences.  This keynote presentation will address the sources of social difficulties originating in the sensory, motor, communication and cognitive systems.  Real stories will give us insight into how to understand the behaviors that get kids into trouble socially.  Everyone will go home with new empathy and practical ideas to assist children who are idiosyncratic learners become socially successful.

Participants will be able to:

  • Connect specific domains of development to specific social difficulties.
  • Know practical ideas for supporting social capacities in the learning different child at school and at home.
  • Incorporate experiential learning activities, such as theater games, as a tool for developing socially savvy children. 

Dr. Barbara Kalmanson, Clinical Consultant and Founding Clinical Director, brought Oak Hill’s founding families together to create the school. Barbara holds doctoral degrees in psychology and special education from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a licensed psychologist and educator, with credentials in teaching the severely handicapped and learning handicapped, and in administration and supervision. Dr. Kalmanson has taught and supervised at the Infant-Parent Program in the Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco; the Child Development Center, California Pacific Medical Center; and the Child Development Program, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.

 

Opening Speaker - Connie Lillas, PhD, MFT, RN

"The Dynamic Brain: Shifting from Isolation to Integration Through the Learning Process"

Lillas

This opening presentation will introduce a dynamic systems approach to brain development. The use of 4 overlapping brain systems will be both described and elucidated through a case presentation of a complex case that will unfold throughout the lecture. Learning will be viewed as the intersection of all four brain systems that can be organized in terms of ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ clinical processes. Using a neurodevelopmental approach to understanding the child, the family, and the application of ‘evidence-based’ practice will be emphasized.

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify four neuroscience theories that support a neurorelational context to working with children.
  • Differentiate between top down and bottom up clinical approaches to working with challenging children.
  • Recognize that learning encompasses multiple brain systems
  • Apply the tritration principle to working with children who have learning and emotional difficulties.

Dr. Connie Lillas is a National Graduate Zero to Three Leadership Fellow and an infant mental health and early intervention specialist with a background in maternal-child nursing, family systems, and developmental psychoanalysis. Dr. Lillas is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Training Institute, whose curriculum regarding high-risk pre-birth to five-year-olds in the foster care system is employed to train service providers across disciplines in Los Angeles County, through collaborative training efforts from the Department of Child and Protective Services, the Department of Mental Health, and Regional Centers.

 

MARKET your product or service to the AET community!

There are opportunities to sponsor, exhibit, and advertise at the 2010 AET Annual Conference!

For details regarding sponsorship, please download the sponsor benefits or contact Jill Smith at 310-909-1490 x114 or email.

For information regarding exhibits or advertising, please download the exhibit prospectus, advertising form, or contact the Danielle Vannatter - 310-909-1490 x117 or email.

 

Below is a list of the 2010 AET Annual Conference supporters!

Sponsors

Westmark School

SPONSOR

Summit View School

SPONSOR

Exhibitors

American Book Company

Learning Time Products

Benetech Bookshare

Lexia Reading

College Internship Program

Maplebrook School

Dyslexia Training Institute

Math-U-See

Fusion Academy

Perception Dynamics Institute

Holy Names University

Read Naturally, Inc.

 

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