SLINGERLAND PARENTING WORKSHOP

A three hour session will lead parents through understanding learning differences:

•  Identification, Progress Monitoring, Diagnostic Assessment…Pat Massoth
• Supporting Children in Development of Oral Language Skills, Written Language Skills, and Reading…Bev Wolf
• Dealing With the Stages of grief, advocating, seeking help, reaching a acceptance, helping your children to trust themselves…Beverly Cuevas

The workshop is scheduled from 9 AM to noon on Saturday, February 15, 2020.  It will be held at Hamlin Robinson School in Seattle, WA.

Online registration closes on February 13 but walk-in registrations will be available on site.

Presenters:

Pat Massoth is a Master Slingerland Teacher who has taught at Hamlin Robinson School for more than 20 years.  She has served on the Board of the Washington Branch of the International Dyslexia Association and participated in teacher training through the Slingerland Institute for Literacy.

Beverly Cuevas LICSW,ACSW is a clinical Social Worker who has facilitated classroom meetings at HRS for 30 years.  She sees dyslexia as a learning difference rather than a disability.  She will present some tools that will emphasize positive acceptance and understanding as we deal with issues related to dyslexia and language-learning disabilities.

Bev Wolf, former head of Hamlin Robinson School has been  training teachers in the Slingerland Approach for more than thirty years.  In addition to writing materials for classroom teachers she collaborated with Virginia Berninge r to write Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, OWL LD, and Dyscalculia, Lessons from Science and Teaching, now in its second edition.