Conferences/Presentations
CONFERENCES / PRESENTATIONS:
The Key Learning Center serves as a premier community resource and training center for educators, professionals,
parents, and students in the Western North Carolina region regarding language-based learning differences/dyslexia.
Contact Concha Wyatt (cwyatt@carolinaday.org) for more information.
January 26, 2013: 5th Annual Best Practices Symposium in Multisensory Teaching & Learning:
A symposium for parents, educators, and other professionals
Website: http://carolinaday.org/academics/key-school/key-learning-center/
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LDA 50th Annual International Conference | View the conference webpage
Wednesday February 13 to Saturday February 16, 2013
San Antonio, TX
Grand Hyatt San Antonio Hotel
600 E. Market Street
San Antonio, Texas, USA 78205
(210) 224-1234
Website: http://www.ldanatl.org
Topic: Compliance through Empowerment
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Currey Ingram Academy
UE Celebrating Strengths and Talents Week
Cherrie Farnette Lunch & Learn: “The Journey is the Destination: Creating Environments that Promote Success” with John Wilson
Location: Jim and Jan Carell Hall When: March 12, 2013
Lunch will be served. Please visit the website to register for this event. Thank you!
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13th Annual Rise Conference
Tennessee's most comprehensive one day reading conference.
Saturday,April13th,2013
Farragut High School in Knoxville, Tennessee
http://www.tnida.org
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Philosophy: SOAR believes all individuals identified with learning disabilities (LD) and attention deficit disorder (AD/HD) possess inherent talents and gifts. These abilities can mean incredible success in adulthood once these students negotiate the challenging obstacles of childhood, adolescence, and a traditional education system, usually unable to respond to individual learning styles.
Therefore, the SOAR model is based on two fundamental principles. First, youth with LD and AD/HD flourish when they are encouraged to focus on their strengths in an experiential setting. The second principle acknowledges that success can be generalized by encouraging our students to develop and utilize strategies, enabling them to compensate for those challenging characteristics of LD and AD/HD. To this end, SOAR staff strive to ensure success for each student across a wide range of experiences. Such success, in turn, builds essential self-esteem and self-confidence.
Based on these two foundations, SOAR participants develop problem solving skills, effective communication strategies, increased self-awareness, and social skills. Program activities include a broad base of wilderness adventure experiences that empower students to make healthy choices, learn more about themselves, overcome challenges, and establish relevance from these experiences to other aspects of their life.
SOAR's Specialty Courses are open to SOAR alumni and students with the maturity and experience level to be successful on the course. Acceptance is conditional on the approval of the course director. Most specialty courses are led by one of SOAR's year-round staff including Richard Peters, John Willson and Joe Geier.
SOAR’s programs are designed to allow students the opportunity to increase their independence while away from home. Independence is gained through self-motivation and life skills instruction. With this in mind, we involve our students in many decision making processes, such as setting individual goals, developing group guidelines, as well as trip and meal planning. This also comes into consideration when developing SOAR’s communication policy, detailed in our Parent Handbook.
SOAR is dedicated to serving the needs of individuals with learning disabilities (LD) and attention deficit disorder (AD/HD) and is proud to be the finest: