OVERCOMING DYSLEXIA The Winston School presents Drs. Sally and Bennett Shaywitz, Co-Directors of the Yale Center for Learning, Reading and Attention and the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. September 27, 2010 7:00 PM Christ Church, Short Hills, NJ Doctors Sally and Bennett Shaywitz of Yale University are the featured speakers at The Winston School’s “Fall Speaker Series” presentation, entitled “Overcoming Dyslexia.” The Winston School of Short Hills will hold its fall speaker series presentation on Monday night, September 27 at 7 pm in the Main Sanctuary of Christ Church of Short Hills. The suggested donation for individual tickets is $25.00 and group rates are available. For information and ticket ordering, call, 973-218-6555 or e-mail, winstonspeakerseries@yahoo.com The speakers are the renowned experts on dyslexia education and research, Doctors Sally and Bennett Shaywitz. Sally Shaywitz is the author of the highly celebrated book, “Overcoming Dyslexia.” Sally Shaywitz is a Professor in Learning Development at The Yale University School of Medicine; Bennett Shaywitz is Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development at The Yale University School of Medicine and Chief of Pediatric Neurology. Both serve as Co-Directors of “The Yale Center for Learning, Reading and Attention” and the “Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity.” They are sincere and highly skilled advocates for children with dyslexia and related language-based disabilities and are major supporters through information and counseling of parents with dyslexic children. In her book, “Overcoming Dyslexia, a New and Complete science-based program for reading problems at any level,” Dr. Shaywitz writes: “Seventy to eighty percent of American children learn how to transform printed symbols into a phonetic code without much difficulty. For the remainder, however, written symbols remain a mystery. These children are dyslexic…They cannot readily convert the alphabetic characters into a linguistic code.” Sally Shaywitz has written: “Dyslexia is a language-based disorder affecting reading…The diagnosis of dyslexia is as precise and scientifically informed as almost any diagnosis in medicine.” The Winston School has been educating students with language-based learning challenges for nearly 30 years. The school provides these students with the opportunities to realize their potentials intellectually and emotionally in a warm and nurturing school setting. Winston is committed through its lecture series to providing information and guidance to parents and educators throughout the surrounding communities on the many learning challenges facing children today. The Winston School is also launching a new “Winston Center for Learning” to coincide with the Fall Speaker Series presentation. The Center will provide a variety of after school and evening resources and services for children and parents and will be located on the Winston School campus in Short Hills. For immediate information, call the school’s main office at 973-379-4114 or consult the Winston School web-site at www.winstonschool.org The lecture by Dr. Sally and Bennett Shaywitz will be an inspirational testament and reminder to parents and educators to maintain their beliefs in the talents and abilities of all children and to “provide unconditional support” and to “hold true to a vision of (the child’s) future….” The Shaywitzes firmly subscribe to the notion that all children can succeed and can pursue his or her dreams through early diagnosis of reading problems and the delivery of effective treatment through specialized reading programs. BENNETT A. SHAYWITZ, M.D. Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D. is the Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development at the Yale University School of Medicine, Chief of Pediatric Neurology and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Learning, Reading and Attention and the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Both a child neurologist and neuroscientist, Shaywitz is a leader in applying functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to understand the neurobiology of reading and dyslexia in children and adults. These studies identify a neural signature for dyslexia, making a previously hidden disability visible, and for the first time demonstrate the brain basis for the accommodation of extra time needed by dyslexic readers on high-stakes standardized tests. Shaywitz is currently using fMRI to investigate attentional mechanisms in dyslexia. The author of over 300 scientific papers, Shaywitz’ many honors include election to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Alumnus Award from Washington University, the Annie Glenn Award for Leadership from the Ohio State University and annual selection as one of the best doctors in America. Dr. Shaywitz was selected, along with Dr. Sally Shaywitz, as recipient of the Haggerty-Friedman Distinguished Lectureship at the University of Rochester; Lawrence G. Crowley Distinguished Lectureship at Stanford University; Rita Rudel Distinguished Lectureship at Columbia University; Waldo E. Nelson lectureship at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children; Leonard Apt Lectureship of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Bank Street College of Education Distinguished Lectureship; Stoll Distinguished Lectureship at Pennsylvania State University; Frontiers of Science Lecture, American Psychiatric Association; and Sidney Berman Award presented by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Shaywitz has served on the Institute of Medicine Immunization Safety Review Committee and on the National Vaccine Program Safety Subcommittee and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the March of Dimes. SALLY E. SHAYWITZ, M.D. Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at the Yale University School of Medicine, is Co-Director of the Yale Center for Learning, Reading and Attention and the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Dr. Shaywitz is the author of over 200 scientific articles, chapters and books, including, Overcoming Dyslexia (Knopf, 2003) which details critical scientific findings in dyslexia and how to translate this scientific knowledge into clinical practice. Her research provides the basic framework: conceptual model, epidemiology and neurobiology for the scientific study of dyslexia. Dr. Shaywitz originated and championed the “Sea of Strengths” model of dyslexia which emphasizes a sea of strengths of higher critical thinking and creativity surrounding the encapsulated weakness found in children and adults who are dyslexic. Her most recent work provides the long awaited empiric evidence for the unexpected nature of dyslexia. Dr. Shaywitz’ many awards include election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Williams College; the Townsend Harris Medal of the City College of New York; the Annie Glenn Award for Leadership from the Ohio State University; and the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She currently serves on the National Board of the Institute for Educational Sciences of the Department of Education and on the National Board of Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic. Dr. Shaywitz served on the National Reading Panel and the Committee to Prevent Reading Difficulties in Young Children of the National Research Council. Most recently, Dr. Shaywitz co-chaired the National Research Council Committee on Gender Differences in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty. She has also served on the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), the National Research Council Committee on Women in Science and Engineering and the Scientific Advisory Board of the March of Dimes. Dr. Shaywitz received her AB (with Honors) from the City University and her MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Back to Top |
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