May 22, 2010
Hyatt Regency
Reston, VA

This  one-day conference will feature some of the world’s leading clinicians and experts providing critical information about managing AD/HD that will help teachers, parents, adults, and psychologists.

Continuing education credits will be provided for an additional $35.

More info about the event here.

We would be happy to answer any questions you may have. Please email questions to chaddconference@chadd.org or call CHADD toll free at 1-800-233-4050.

Speaker: Kirk Griffith, PhD

May 12, 2010
7Pm

Description: Assessments for the Learning Disabled Child

Kirk Griffith, PhD, of NeuroBehavioral Associates in Columbia, will discuss the current trends in the assessment of a child with a learning difference.  An open forum will follow his discussion.

Details:

7:00 – 8:30 PM
Norbel School
6135 Old Washington Road
Elkridge Maryland, 21075

Download the flier for the May meeting of the Howard County CHADD group

For information on this meeting of parents in Howard County, click here.
For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Program: Parent to Parent Support Meeting

Wednesday April 14, 2010
7 pm

This month parents of children with learning challenges are invited to share strategies, resources and other useful information that they have found to be beneficial to their child’s academic or social success.
Please RSVP to krenzi@norbelschool.org to participate.

Details:

7:00 – 8:30 PM
Norbel School
6135 Old Washington Road
Elkridge Maryland, 21075

Download the flier for the April CHADD meeting in Howard county

For information on this meeting of parents in Howard County, click here.
For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Date: May 5, 2010

Speaker: Vincent P. Culotta, Ph.D., ABN, is a practicing neuropsychologist with more than 20 years experience providing assessment and consultation services to students with emotional, learning, attention, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Culotta is president of NeuroBehavioral Associates, a group practice in the Baltimore/Washington region; his team regularly works with families to secure appropriate educational services for their children.

Dr. Culotta is a frequent speaker and invited lecturer at regional and national conferences, provides professional training and consultation, has published numerous articles regarding neurodevelopment and brain-based disorders in children and adolescents.

Neuroscience Update: Executive Functions from Infancy through Early Adulthood

This talk will review recent studies of executive function from infancy through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. Early risk factors, academic skills, social skills, and brain maturation will be examined. Strategies to navigate the transition from high school to college will be discussed.

Details:

7:30 –9 pm
Loyola College Graduate Center
2034 Greenspring Drive
Timonium, Maryland 21093

For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Date:  March 24, 2010

Speaker:  Erica Berger

Details: 

Twinbrook Library
202 Meadow Hall Drive
Rockville, MD

7:15 Meeting registration and social
7:30 Speaker program
followed by discussion and informal support

Erica Berger is a licensed clinical social worker, in DC and Maryland, with more than 15 years of experience. She practices as part of Alvord Baker & Associates, an innovative therapy practice with offices in Silver Spring and Rockville.  She provides a broad range of counseling services including: individual, family, couples and group therapy. In addition, Erica has completed the Intensive Clinical Externship Program in Family Therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York. Areas of specialty include: anxiety; depression; ADHD; family communication; family transitions; adolescent development; adjustment to illness; and bereavement.  Erica has and continues to provide clinical supervision to other social workers.

For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Download the flier for this meeting  March2010

Description:

• Gain valuable information and tools to meet difficult challenges
• Learn to be an effective advocate for child, teen or adult
• Preserve family relationships
• Learn to manage treatment
• Partner effectively with teachers

Find more information about Parent to Parent training here.

Next Class: March 18 thru April 19, 2010

Details:

Location:

Club Symetry
11460 Cronridge Dr, Ste 120
Owings Mills,  MD    21117

Cost: $100 for 1 or 2 family members sharing materials (CHADD members);
$145 for 1 or 2 non-members, which includes a year’s family membership!

To register or for more information contact:

Please contact Jill Linkoff
CoachJillLinkoff@gmail.com
Or call 443-831-0086

Download the flier and registration form here

Date:    February 24, 2010

Speaker: Sharon K. Weiss, M.Ed.

Sharon Weiss is a nationally-known consultant in private practice in Northern Virginia.  Her areas of expertise include parent and staff training in behavior management and crisis intervention.  She has worked as a teacher of special needs children, program coordinator and supervisor of behavioral intervention programs for behavior-disorded children.  Sharon Weiss is a highly sought after speaker who focuses on practical, useful information in a humorous way.  She speaks about parenting and behavior management in both the home and educational settings, focusing on parent and professional training, not child therapy.

Sharon has authored two books:   From Chaos to Calm: Effective Parenting of Challenging Children with ADHD and Other Behavioral Problems and Angry Children-Worried Parents:  7 Steps to Help Families Manage Anger.

Twinbrook Library
202 Meadow Hall Drive
Rockville, MD

7:15 Meeting registration and social
7:30 Speaker program
followed by discussion and informal support.

Informative materials are available free, on loan or to purchase.

For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Download the flier for this meeting here.

Date:    January 27, 2010

Speaker:  Dr. Kenneth Stefano is a clinical psychologist who has worked with children, adolescents and families for the last 20 years.  He is a founding partner of Spodak, Stefano and Associates, a multidisciplinary practice that provides comprehensive evaluations and educational advocacy to individuals with learning, attention, Executive Functioning, and social/emotional difficulties.  He is the former Director of Psychology Internship Training at the John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents (JLG-RICA), a residential treatment center for seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents.  In addition to his clinical and assessment experience, Dr. Stefano has provided expert testimony at juvenile court proceedings, as well as advocacy for local public school students with learning and emotional problems.  For more information about Dr. Stefano and Spodak, Stefano & Associates, please visit www.spodakstefano.com.

Details:

Twinbrook Library
202 Meadow Hall Drive
Rockville, MD

7:15 Meeting registration and social
7:30 Speaker program
followed by discussion and informal support.

Informative materials are available free, on loan or to purchase.

For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

Download the flier here  Jan2010 flyer

These are not CHADD sponsored events.

Dates:

Monday, January 25, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Washington
and Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 2 p.m. in Baltimore

Join us to hear Jonathan Mooney, a dynamic and inspirational speaker and one who has established himself as one of the foremost leaders in LD/ADHD, disabilities, and alternative education.

A dyslexic writer and activist who did not learn to read until he was 12 years old, Jonathan is a graduate of Brown University’s class of 2000 and holds an honors degree in English Literature. Jonathan is founder and President of Project Eye-To-Eye, a mentoring and advocacy non-profit organization for students with learning differences.

Jonathan is a highly sought-after speaker and has lectured in 43 states and three countries. He has been featured and quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, NPR, ABC News, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and numerous other local and regional papers in the cities, states, and countries where Jonathan has traveled.

Jonathon is the author of two books, Learning Outside The Lines , published when he was 23, and The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal, a memoir, published by Henry Holt in June, 2007.

Details:

Monday evening, January 25
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

The Lab School of Washington
Cafritz Athletic Center on Reservior Rd. Campus
4759 Reservior Rd NW
Washington, DC 20007
$15 admission to this event

Tuesday afternoon, January 26
2:00 p.m.

Lovely Lane Church – Fellowship Hall
Sponsored by Baltimore Lab School
Parking is available on the Baltimore Lab lot, next door at 2220 St. Paul Street.
2200 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Admission for this event is complimentary.  Reservations are required. Please RSVP to debbie.schultze@labschool.org or 410 735-0056.

For more information about Jonathan Mooney, visit www.jonathanmooney.com

For more information about these events, please visit these links:

• www.labschool.org/content/jonathanmooney
• More about the evening with Jonathan Mooney in Washington
• More about the afternoon with Jonathan Mooney in Baltimore

Date: February 3, 2010

Speaker: Katharina Boser, Ph.D., President of Individual Differences in Learning, Inc.

Description: Harnessing the “Conceptual Thinker” through Technology Tools: Environments that strengthen the attention-different student’s strengths

Students with attention impairments are known for their distractibility, disorganization, impulsivity and ‘unique’ response to reward. One might logically conclude that technology, particularly gaming, social tools, web2.0 internet tools as well as ‘high-interest’, graphics environments would only further distract a students’ attention, keeping them from learning.

Some games truly do act merely as a ‘distraction’ for such students. Recent research, however, demonstrates that when learning tools include narratives, embed rewards in the task itself rather than requiring the user to ‘wait’ to have fun until they’ve completed some rote task, and have engaging high interest animation and graphics, students are more engaged in the curriculum content.

This presentation will provide participants with an understanding of the difference between ‘addictive’ games, educational tools that make a student feel like they’re ‘eating their vegetables’ and those tools that actually push student learning forward by requiring critical thinking, problem solving, interactivity and/or collaboration.

About the speaker: Katharina Boser, Ph.D. has a doctorate in developmental psychology and cognitive science from Cornell University. She has a research background studying language processing in early development and language impairments in both adults and children.

She has published articles on the use of computerized language systems in the rehabilitation of adults with aphasia and children with autism. She is a scientific advisor for Autism Speaks and Anthrotronix, a robotics company, where she focusses on research of learning technologies for people with autism.

She is on the advocacy task force for Universal Design for Learning in Maryland and was part of a team of educators who wrote a new teacher education curriculum for University of Maryland University College’s Master’s in Teaching program that has a large focus on disability, diversity, global learning and technology integration.

Details:

7:15 – 8:45 pm
Loyola College Graduate Center
2034 Greenspring Drive
Timonium, Maryland 21093

For driving directions and other calendar listings: www.chadd-mc.org/calendar

The flier for this event is not yet available.