• How to Recognize If Your Child Has a Learning Disability, Attention Deficit Disorder, and/or Dyslexia?
• What Everyone Should Know About Dyslexia, What It Is and What to Do
• What Everyone Should Know About Attention Deficit, What It Is and What to Do
• What Everyone Should Know About the Neurodevelomental Approach and Sensory Integration
• What Everyone Should Know About Auditory Processing Skills
• What Everyone Should Know About Visual Processing Skills
• What Everyone Should Know About Auditory and Visual Processing Skills
• What Everyone Should Know About the Emotional Impact of Learning Disability (Last One Picked... First One to Be Picked On)
• What Everyone Should Know About Gifted Children
• Thinking Skills, Learning Styles, and Information Processing Styles
• Verbal Learning Disability and Non-Verbal Learning Disability?

Workshops for Homeschoolers:
• Ten Main Reasons for Homeschooling Your Child Who Has Learning Problems
• Benefits of Standardized Achievement Testing and Educational Assessment for Homeschoolers
• The Role of The Father, for Men Only
• The Greek and Hebrew Philosophies in Relation to Education
• Techniques for the Hard to Teach in Reading, Spelling and Writing
• Strategies for Improving Attention and Impulsive Behaviours
• Simultaneous Multisensory Teaching: the Best Approach for Dyslexics


How to Recognize If Your Child Has a Learning Disability, Attention Deficit Disorder, and/or Dyslexia?
The purpose is to sensitize the parents to the different characteristics of each of these labels and to help them in their search for better understand their children. Suzanne will be glad to answer your many questions.

What Everyone Should Know About Dyslexia, What It Is and What to Do
Suzanne will help you to better understand the causes and the symptoms of dyslexia. She will describe the characteristics of the different types of dyslexia and what the newest research say about it. She will also talk about different tests used to identify dyslexic patterns. She will briefly talk about methodologies and principles of remediation to help dyslexics

What Everyone Should Know About Attention Deficit, What It Is and What to Do
Suzanne will help you understand the different symptoms attached to this label. Such children display a variety of symptoms that can be related to inefficiencies in different areas of development and functioning of the central nervous system. She will introduce you to her model of intervention which touches the physical, biochemical, intellectual, emotional motivational, and spiritual areas.

What Everyone Should Know About the Neurodevelomental Approach and Sensory Integration
It is important to understand the process involved in child's brain development in order to help your children to achieve their potential: to not only work on the academic achievement but on the processing skills. Suzanne will introduce you to 6 major areas of brain and sensory development: tactile, auditory, visual, language, manual and mobility. She will share practical knowledge concerning the development of the central nervous system that you will help you to stimulate your children's learning. This workshop is useful for parents of young children (prevention) as well as for parents of children with learning and attention inefficiencies as we can give the brain a second chance.

What Everyone Should Know About Auditory Processing Skills
Hearing sounds and making sense of it. Suzanne will be explaining what is involved in the auditory processing and why so many students are weak at it. She will familiarize you with the neurodevelopment and reflexes inhibition causes of these problems. Suzanne will help you to understand what is involved in auditory discrimination, memory, perception, analysis, synthesis and conceptualization. She will also briefly explain ways to work with these students.

What Everyone Should Know About Visual Processing Skills
Suzanne will explain the difference between sight and vision. 80% of what we learn is through vision. Suzanne will introduce you to the different components of vision: convergence, pursuits, accommodation and peripheral vision. She will equip you with screening tests to use with your students. She will explain how neurodevelopment and reflex inhibition influence vision as a learning function. She will give some remedial tasks that you may be able to use.

What Everyone Should Know About Auditory and Visual Processing Skills
(a condensed presentation of the two separate workshops on the subjects)
Suzanne will explain what is involved in the auditory processing and why so many students are weak at it. She will help you to understand what is involved in auditory discrimination, memory, perception, analysis, synthesis and conceptualization. She will describe the difference between sight and vision. 80% of what we learn is through vision. Suzanne will introduce you to the different components of vision: convergence, pursuits, accommodation and peripheral vision.

What Everyone Should Know About the Emotional Impact of Learning Disability (Last One Picked... First One to Be Picked On)
Suzanne will explain the implications of a learning disability on the social behaviour. Richard Lavoie describes it well in those terms "Last one picked...first one to be picked on". She will give you helpful insights on how to encourage character building while considering some communication difficulties linked with reasoning skills and neurodevelopment inefficiencies.

What Everyone Should Know About Gifted Children
Suzanne will help you to better understand the characteristics of a gifted person. She will explain the verbal and non-verbal reasoning skills evaluated through the IQ test. She will also speak about the gifted children with learning disabilities. She will explain some challenges and the opportunities offered by this option.

Thinking Skills, Learning Styles, and Information Processing Styles
Suzanne will challenge you in teaching your students to think. She will discuss the four main verbal reasoning skills, help you to discern to what degree the student conceptualizes and visualizes, explain what is simultaneous and successive information processing styles. This knowledge is mandatory in order to better understand and organize your teaching as you teach to the person's strengths while you remediate the weaknesses.

Verbal Learning Disability and Non-Verbal Learning Disability?
Suzanne will help you to understand the different characteristics of each of these labels. The verbal learning disability accounts for ninety percent of the LD population. The non-verbal learning disability is less known. The symptoms and prognostic for each category need to be better understood by the educators. To better understand these labels a brief explanation of the IQ testing will be presented.

For Homeschoolers:
Ten Main Reasons for Homeschooling Your Child Who Has Learning Problems
Suzanne will share important lessons and conclusions that she learned as a professional and mother of a child with learning difficulties and with a child with attention inefficiencies. She specializes in testing children and designs individualized neurodevelopmental programs for homeschoolers to facilitate all areas of learning.

For Homeschoolers:
Benefits of Standardized Achievement Testing and Educational Assessment for Homeschoolers
Suzanne will explain the difference between the testing of academic abilities such as reading, spelling and math, and psychoeducational assessment which attempts to identify learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, etc. She will introduce you to different standardized testing instruments that you can access in the comfort of your homeschooling setting: the CAT/3, Test of Cognitive Skills, Predicted Achievement. She will guide you in the interpretation the different scores.


The Role of The Father, for Men Only
David will stimulate your thinking. Over the years David has witnessed in his own life and in the lives of most men that he is meeting the great need to be encouraged, instructed, and challenged in their father role. There is a clear attack of the authority figure in our society and the father image is a major target. This session will encourage you in your pursuit of excellence.

The Greek and Hebrew Philosophies in Relation to Education
David will present the Hebrew method of learning with the goal of being mighty in spirit, and the Greek method of learning where the mind rules over the spirit. He will share some practical implications. He will help you to understand the impact on your lives as parents and on your sons and daughters in your pursuit of excellence.

Techniques for the Hard to Teach in Reading, Spelling and Writing
David will illustrate some remedial tasks that he is using in his reading therapy, and explain the Lindamood-Bell program. Many people have difficulty with reading and spelling because they are unable to judge: a. the number, b. the order, c. the identity of sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. This pre-phonics problem interferes with the learning of phonics; therefore, the process of decoding (sounding out words) never develops the way it should. Consequently, the person is unable to determine if what he says matches what he sees. He will answer some of your questions.

Strategies for Improving Attention and Impulsive Behaviours
Impulsiveness and problems with paying attention lead children with A.D.D. into trouble. They often cross the line between being creative and being disruptive. Not all children with A.D.D. develop behaviour problems, and that is a credit to the parenting they receive. Certainly they are at higher risk than the average child. This workshop will be very practical, presenting strategies to help the child learn to control himself, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Simultaneous Multisensory Teaching: the Best Approach for Dyslexics
The National Institutes for Health have confirmed through in depth research what the Internal Dyslexia Association had advocated for years: those with reading and spelling problems (dyslexics) must be taught with a Multisensory approach. After much training in Canada and the USA, David and Suzanne Day were equipped to help but were frustrated in their limitation to provide a "user friendly" format accessible to homeschoolers. The Simultaneous Multisensory Teaching (SMT) developed by the Canadian Dyslexia Association is an answer of prayer. Parents can now be trained to carefully follow the steps of a teacher plan which allow the child to integrate the information in order to retrieve it more easily.

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