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Ohio Passes Dyslexia Law

daytonread — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:38:49 +0000

This legislation took a lot of hard work by many people, but now schools of education and elementary teachers will need to get training to help the struggling readers early!

Please visit the link to the IDA website announcement and to the video-taped passage of HB96 and SB157 to learn more.

http://www.interdys.org/hb157.htm

HB 96 and 157 are on their way to the Governor!

daytonread — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:51:15 +0000

Charlotte Andrist shared the good news tonight on the Ohio Dyslexia Group Facebook page:

HB96 & 157 passed the Senate 33-0 and was approved in the House for concurrence!! On to the Governor! Congratulations Reps. Celeste & Brenner; Schuring & Letson! Thank you all for your support!

IEP parent meeting at SERC Center

daytonread — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:20:45 +0000

For more information about this free workshop on October 22nd please click this link – IEP Parent Workshop.

HB 96 is up for proponent testimony on October 4th at 9:30 am.

daytonread — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:59:58 +0000

Please show your support this Tuesday, October 4th as a local Centerville resident and others from around our state give testimony to the Senate Education Committee. The Chairman of the Senate Education Committee is Peggy Lehner from Kettering. We need your support!

http://www.ohiosenate.gov/committee-agenda/agenda-547.html

ReelAbilities is coming to Cincinnati!

daytonread — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:52:33 +0000

ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival
For years, New York City has hosted an outstanding film event entitled ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival. The festival presents award-winning films, accompanied by discussion and other programs which bring the community together to explore, discuss and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experiences.
The success in the Big Apple has been overwhelming so the organizers decided to expand. The organizers explored other U.S. cities where they might create and develop a traveling program. Cincinnati has been selected as the first city outside of New York to host this film festival. Next year the program will travel to the cities Atlanta, Boston, Washington, D.C., Nashville, and Houston, to name a few. But let me reiterate that Cincinnati is the first! Events will be happening at three different venues for two weeks this fall. The College of Mount St Joseph has been lucky enough to be one of those three.
The College will be hosting two film events. On Tuesday, September 20, the film “Warrior Champions” will be shown in the College Theatre, and on Thursday, September 22, “Shooting Beauty” will be shown. Each film will begin at 7 p.m. A “talkback” (discussion) session will be held following each film. General admission tickets are $10, and $5 for seniors citizens. However, students with a College of Mount St Joseph ID will be admitted free.
Additionally, an interactive art exhibit from Visionaries and Voices will be set up in Seton Center Lobby on the campus of the College of Mount St Joseph for a few weeks in September. The art exhibit, which features work by people with disabilities, is free.

Please help make ReelAbilities a Mount success. Attached is a flyer about the entire film festival. Please take a look and feel free to send it to others who might be interested. We would LOVE to fill the theatre!

ReelAbilities Film Festival Flyer

“Experience Dyslexia” coming this Saturday, September 17th!

daytonread — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:53:27 +0000

The event is “Experience Dyslexia” – a simulation in which participants experience challenges similar to those that dyslexics confront when performing language-related tasks. The simulation will be held at the Masonic Temple on Saturday, September 17 from 10:00am -12:00pm. Admission will be $15 at the door with all proceeds going to the Learning Center in care of the Masonic Foundation. Registration is required (to ensure there are enough materials for all participants). For more information, contact: beth@porter5.com.

Testimony For HB96 – Early ID of Dyslexia – Wednesday, March 2 – 5PM Room 17

daytonread — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:19:42 +0000

To all of our supporters in the Ohio Dyslexia Community:Rep. Celeste has been working very diligently for us on HB96 and things are moving very quickly!

Proponent testimony for HB 96 (Celeste/Brenner) is scheduled for this Wednesday, March 2 in room 17 at 5 PM
AND
To our dismay, we have growing opposition to this early identification bill from those in charge of our schools.
SO
We need you to help us to show the members of the Education Committee and our opponents,
that we are a formidable FORCE to be contended with.

This is not the time to sit back and hope that someone else will take up the cause.

“If not now, then when? If not you, then who?”

We need your help now! We need:Oral testimony (see the attached guidelines for proponent testimony)
- We are trying to coordinate who is speaking so please contact me at charlotteandrist@gmail.com
or 614.767.0438 if you want to give oral testimony this Wednesday.
- Complete and send me the 129_Witness Testimony Form (attached)
- Make 40 copies of your testimony or send a copy to me
on or before Tuesday, March 1 and we’ll make the copies for you.

Written testimony (see the attached guidelines for proponent testimony)
- Everyone is encouraged to provide written testimony; you do not need to be present.
- Bring 40 copies of your written testimony with you on Wednesday
or if you send a copy to me on or beforeTUESDAY, March 1, we’ll make the copies.

People
– lots and lots and lots of people
Bring your family, friends, neighbors, other relatives, etc.
Please help us fill the room to overflowing!

ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEE MEETING

COMMITTEE:   House Education
CHAIRMAN:     Representative Stebelton (614-466-8100)
DATE:              Wednesday, March 2, 2011
TIME:               5:00 p.m.
ROOM:             017

BILLS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD:BILL SPONSOR TITLE STATUS

HB 115 Stebelton - Educational Choice Scholarships- 1st Hearing
gradually increase number Sponsor

HB 116 Barnes Schools-harassment/intimidation/ 1st Hearing

bullying policies-instruction on/ Sponsor

parental notice ofHB 96 Celeste/ Dyslexia – a learning disability/ 2nd Hearing
Brenner Screening & intervention services Proponent

AMENDMENTS ARE TO BE PROVIDED TO THE CHAIR’S OFFICE NO LATER THAN 5:00PM TUESDAY.
CHAIR REQUESTS THAT THOSE TESTIFYING PROVIDE 40 COPIES OF WRITTEN TESTIMONY PRIOR TO COMMITTEE

–
Ohio Dyslexia Group

c/o Charlotte G. Andrist, Ph.D., NCSP
President, Central Ohio Branch of the International Dyslexia Association2948 Scioto Place
Columbus, OH 43221

Primary: 614.767.0438
Mobile: 614.288.8784
Email: charlotteandrist@gmail.com

2ND DYSLEXIA BILL – CALL FOR CO-SPONSORS – DEADLINE WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 23 – PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL YOUR REPS

daytonread — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:08:03 +0000

Supporters of the Ohio Dyslexia Community:
Representative Kirk Schuring is calling for co-sponsors on a Dyslexia Bill so that the Educational Service Centers (ESCs) will be able to hire Dyslexia Specialists on their State Support Teams.

We need your help and support for this bill. Please email or call your Ohio Representatives and ask them to sign on as co-sponsors to this important teacher training bill for at the Educational Service Centers.

Current co-sponsors for this bill calling for Dyslexia Specialists at the ESCs include:

Rep. Snitchler (also co-sponsored HB 96)
Rep. Derickson
Rep. Hall
Rep. Combs
Rep. Letson
Rep. Stebelton (also co-sponored HB 96)

To find your representative’s contact information, go to: http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&Itemid=58

Or leave a telephone message at 1-800-282-0253. Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Remember to also contact Representatives who co-sponsored HB 96 (Early Identification) and have not signed onto this 2nd Dyslexia bill yet, including:

Reps. Celeste, Brenner, Amstutz, Garland, Foley, Letson, Weddington, Pillich, Dovilla, Patmon, Ramos, Hollington, Phillips, Lundy, Thompson, O’Brien, Yuko, Murray, Williams, Stinziano, Stautberg, Antonio, Reece, Hagan, Fende, Fedor, Milkovich, Clyde, Winburn

Please forward this to whomever you know might help us.

Thank you so much for lending your support to help our dyslexic children and their families in Ohio!

Make Decoding Automatic – Canceled!

daytonread — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:24:49 +0000

Notice – This event has been canceled. If you are interested in learning more about Concept Phonics or other products offered by Oxton House Publishers, please contact them directly.

Dr. Phyllis E. Fischer – author, professor, researcher, consultant – will be coming to Cincinnati to present “Make Decoding Automatic!”, a one-day professional development workshop, at the

Holiday Inn I-275 Cincinnati North on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011.

In this limited-enrollment workshop, Dr. Fischer will show you how to use her materials and techniques to develop decoding automaticity in beginning or struggling readers. These materials provide a flexible, efficient, research-based supplement to any phonics program, and are particularly useful for RTI and Tiered Instruction. Her remarkably effective, timesaving techniques come from more than 30 years of research, teaching, and clinical practice.

The workshop fee is $170 if paid (or committed by school PO) by Jan. 28; after that date the fee is $195. This fee includes continental breakfast and lunch. No additional purchased materials are required. For more information, including a group discount available until Jan. 28, see www.oxtonhouse.com. You may register online through this website or by calling 1-800-539-7323 toll-free.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn first-hand from a successful pioneer in decoding automaticity!

Sponsored by
Oxton House Publishers, LLC P.O. Box 209 Farmington, ME 04938
1-800-539-READ (7323) Fax: 207-779-0623

OVB Spring Conference with Marcia K. Henry, PhD

daytonread — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:39:53 +0000

Saturday, April 9, 2010.

Topic: Teaching Decoding, Spelling, and Vocabulary to Older Students

Presenter: Marcia K. Henry, PhD – Professor Emerita, San Jose State University;

Past President, The International Dyslexia Association (1992-1996)

Description of Session:

Letter-sound correspondences, or phonics, syllable patterns and morpheme patterns (the meaningful parts in words such as prefixes and suffixes, Anglo-Saxon base words and Latin and Greek roots) must be acquired for students to decode and spell unfamiliar words. Older students, especially, need to learn the morpheme patterns in order to read their content area textbooks, and to write essays, reports, and compositions. Morphemes not only provide strategies for decoding and spelling, but for enhancing vocabulary as well. Additional strategies for vocabulary instruction (i.e., context clues, dictionary/thesaurus use, word association, multiple meaning of words and figurative language) will be included. This presentation will give teachers numerous instructional strategies and activities for use in the classroom or tutoring situation.

Marcia K. Henry, PhD: Marcia Henry brings 50 years of experience working in the field of language acquisition and specific language disabilities (dyslexia) as a diagnostician, tutor, teacher, and professor.

Dr. Henry received her Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University. Prior to retirement in 1995, she was a professor in the Division of Special Education at San Jose State University where she taught and directed the Center for Educational Research on Dyslexia. Marcia became a Fulbright Lecturer/ Research Scholar teaching at the University of Trondheim, Norway in 1991.

She speaks frequently at regional, national and international conferences on topics related to intervention strategies for dyslexic learners. She also writes for a variety of professional journals, and serves on the editorial board for Dyslexia, the journal of The British Dyslexia Association, and for Annals of Dyslexia, journal of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA).

Since retirement Marcia has taught at the University of New Mexico, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and Fairleigh-Dickinson University. She provides teacher training related to teaching reading and related language arts, and consults with several school districts and states on informed reading instruction. Dr. Henry is the author of WORDS (with a new 2^nd edition out in 2010) as well as primary author of Patterns for Success in Reading and Spelling published by Pro-Ed of Austin, TX. She is a past-president of The International Dyslexia Association (IDA), serving as president from 1992-1996.

She compiled and co-edited Dyslexia – Samuel T. Orton and His Legacy for IDA’s 50th anniversary in 1999. Paul Brooke’s Publishing in Baltimore recently published the 2^nd Edition of Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction. She is a fellow in the Orton-Gillingham Academy, and received the Margaret Byrd Rawson Lifetime Achievement Award from IDA in 2000.

She lives on Madeline Island in Lake Superior where she is a volunteer tutor in the elementary school. She recently wrote and published the Madeline Island ABC Book, along with a coloring book and poster with illustrator Sally Parsons (www.looncommonspress.com).

8:00 A.M. REGISTRATION

8:30 – 12:00

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12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 3:30

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Place: Mayerson Jewish Community Center, 8485 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236

For more information please visit the OVB website: www.cincinnatidyslexia.org