Learning Disabilities Center Stage
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA
All of the IECA Committees have been busy meeting and planning, and over the next few weeks I’ll highlight many of them and what initiatives are on the horizon for members of the Independent Educational Consultants Association.
Among the most active committees is the Learning Disabilities Committee. Their charge is three-fold: (1) assist members in becoming experts on topics related to LD issues; (2) assist members in their efforts to learn more about LD schools and programs; and (3) reach out to other organizations and professionals to coordinate and cooperate to better serve students and families.
The LD committee is responsible for several of the educational sessions being offered at IECA’s Fall Conference. Front and center of these is the pre-conference workshop exploring testing and how to evaluate the various psycho-educational evaluative tools. The committee has also organized a tour of LD school campuses that has been well-received and whose numbers are only limited by the size of the vans. We look forward to perhaps reading a blog from the tour.
I’m also pleased to see that the committee has developed a plan to represent IECA at the Learning Disabilities Conference early next year in Baltimore. IECA will have a booth, represented by members of the committee, and the group is now working on some new materials for distribution at the conference—the largest gathering of LD experts in the country. The goal is to reach out to parents who would benefit from a better understanding of how educational consultants can help them, as well as to LD professionals to learn how they might work with IECA members to better serve their clients. In additon, we expect that some professionals attending LDA’s conference would be appropriate for IECA membership.
The LD Committee, under the leadership of Pam Tedeschi (MD) and Rachel Sobel (PA), is actively working in all areas of their responsibility in ways that can have a direct and positive impact. Congratulations to them.
Watch this blog for updates on the great work of IECA’s other committees and affinity groups.
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