Education
Individuals with Disabilities Direct Support Professionals
Online
These are internet-based courses for professionals who provide services and support to children or adults with developmental or related disabilities or mental health and aging adults.
Computer Based Instruction (VESI, Inc.)
These are convenient, relevant and affordable continuing education courses completed via CD-ROM or online. The courses offer applicable content that can be completed in the comfort of your home and immediately applied in the classroom.
DuBard Association Method® Course
September 20-22/October 18-20 (two-part), 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
The DuBard Association® Method is a phonetic, multisensory teaching strategy that benefits children with severe language disorders and/or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, dyslexia, communication disorders, and other issues. It is also used with nondisabled children to establish a code-breaking system for reading skills. The Southern Miss DuBard School for Language Disorders has utilized it since 1962. The DuBard Association Method® training courses of The University of Southern Mississippi DuBard School for Language Disorders holds accredited status from the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) for its instructional programs at the Teaching, Instructor of Teaching, Therapy and Instructor of Therapy levels.
Safe Schools and Communities: Building Resistance and Resiliency to Violence, Defiant Groups and Bullying Symposium
October 4-5 - Lake Terrace Convention Center, Hattiesburg, Miss.The purpose of this symposium is to offer schools and communities information and strategies that will help them build awareness and resistance to youth violence through affiliation with gangs and acts of bullying.
The target audience is teachers, school administrators, social workers, psychologists, juvenile court officers, police officers and parents.
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Missing Links in Academics
November 3-4, 8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
This semiar will cover multisensory techniques for teaching the National Reading Panel five areas of reading.
• Learn syllable types and syllable division rules.
• Learn to use morphemes as a way of increasing comprehension.
• Learn and demonstrate ways of building reading fluency.
DuBard Symposium: Dyslexia and Related Disorders Conference
February 2-3, 2012, Hattiesburg, Miss.
This is a two-day conference designed for educators, administrators, speech-language pathologists, social workers, mental health professionals, health care providers and parents.Check back later for details.
