Villa Maria School is proud to present: Drs. Sally and Bennett Shaywitz
Dyslexia: Translating Research into Practice
Extraordinary progress in understanding the nature of reading and dyslexia, including their neural underpinnings, have direct implications for the earlier and more accurate identification and more effective treatment of dyslexia. This presentation focuses on these discoveries and their translation into clinical practices for Overcoming Dyslexia and for appreciating the Sea of Strengths associated with dyslexia.
When: Thursday, May 14
9:00am coffee and refreshments
9:30 until 11:30am presentation
Where: Villa Maria School
161 Sky Meadow Drive Stamford, CT
(just off High Ridge Road - past Stamford Nature Center)
Kindly R.S.V.P. to Dan Friedman: 203-322-5886 Extension 106
Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D. is the Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development at Yale University and Co-Director of the newly formed Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Both a child neurologist and neuroscientist, Shaywitz is a leader in applying functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to understand the neurobiology of reading and dyslexia in children and adults. These studies identify a neural signature for dyslexia, making a previously hidden disability visible, and for the first time demonstrate the brain basis for the accommodation of extra time needed by dyslexic readers on high-stakes standardized tests. Shaywitz is currently using fMRI to investigate attentional mechanisms in dyslexia. The author of over 300 scientific papers, Shaywitz's many honors include election to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Alumnus Award from Washington University, and annual selection as one of the best doctors in America.
Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D. is the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at Yale University and Co-Director of the newly formed Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. A physician-scientist, Shaywitz originated and championed the "Sea of Strengths" model of dyslexia which emphasizes a sea of strengths of higher critical thinking and creativity found in children and adults who are dyslexic. Her most recent book, Overcoming Dyslexia (Knopf), details the latest scientific findings in dyslexia and how to translate this scientific knowledge into clinical practice in everyday situations. Her numerous honors include membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Williams College, the Townsend Harris Medal of the City College of New York and the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Shaywitz serves on National Board of the Institute for Educational Sciences and currently co-chairs the National Research Council Committee on Gender Differences in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty.