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AET 34th Annual Conference

October 19-21, 2012

Sheraton Crystal City, Washington, DC

 

“From Assessment to Intervention: The Social, Educational, and Neuropsychological Impact of Learning Differences.”

October 28-30, 2011 in Pasadena, CA

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33rd Annual Conference Speakers

Judith Warner is perhaps best known for her 2005 New York Times best-seller, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, & New York Times column, "Domestic Disturbances. Her latest book, We've Got Issues: Parents & Children in the Age of Medication, explores the myths, realities and challenges of children's mental health issues, both for their families and society as a whole.

She remains a frequent contributor to the New York Times op-ed page, and writes for The New York Times Magazine and other publications. A former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris, she hosted "The Judith Warner Show" on XM satellite radio from 2005 to 2007, and wrote the 1993 bestseller Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story, as well as several other books. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and children.

 

Lorie A. Humphrey, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in private practice who specializes in neuropsychological assessment of children and adolescents with developmental and acquired neurological disorders.  Dr. Humphrey is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Dept of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, where she oversees the didactic program for the pediatric neuropsychology pre and post-doctoral fellows.  Courses she teaches in that program focus on both normal neuropsychological development, and on neuropsychological conceptualizations of childhood developmental disorders.  Dr. Humphrey has also been a consultant on several research projects at UCLA including a genetic study of ADHD in a Finnish, adolescent cohort.  She is currently a co-investigator in a study of sibling pairs diagnosed with autism which is examining the relationships between brain structure (MRI) and neuropsychological profiles. Prior to entering the field of neuropsychology Dr. Humphrey was a licensed secondary teacher in Colorado where she taught French and English at the middle school and high school levels.

 

Jack M. Fletcher, Ph.D., is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston. For the past 30 years, Dr. Fletcher, a child neuropsychologist, has conducted research on children with learning and attention disorders, and brain injury. Dr. Fletcher directs a Learning Disability Research Center grant and a program project involving neurobiological factors and learning in spina bifida, both funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He served on the NICHD National Advisory Council, the Rand Reading Study Group, the National Research Council Committee on Scientific Principles in Education Research, and the President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education. Dr. Fletcher was the recipient of the Samuel T. Orton award from the International Dyslexia Association in 2003 and a co-recipient of the Albert J. Harris award from the International Reading Association in 2006. He is the Past President of the International Neuropsychological Society.