DUBAI, UAE - Dubai will host a two-day international conference during 15-16 October 2008 on learning disability among children with the objective of raising awareness about this crucial issue affecting thousands of children around the world and exploring how to help students succeed in secondary and post-secondary education.
The 2nd GCC Learning Disability Conference (LDC), organised by Dubai-based Ishara Consultants under the auspices of UAE Ministry of Education at Dubai Women's Association auditorium, is intended to produce a blueprint of action to help governments and educational institutions design curriculum, evolve interventional methods and build up training resources to address the problems of under-achievers.
According to Maalainaine Salama, Managing Director of Ishara Consultants, the conference which is held under the banner 'Preparing our Children for Success' is one of its unique kinds that seek to find solutions where none appears to exist.
Salama said:
'Ishara brings to a common platform innovators, thought-leaders and specialists who can offer ground breaking collaborative and pragmatic methodologies and workable solutions to unveil the hidden potential within these children with LD.'
He added that the conference is a path breaking initiative that would throw up several techniques, procedures and training programmes designed to meet the learning styles and educational needs of the intellectually challenged. Experts in the fields of clinical psychology, neuro sciences, government, research, education, corporate and parents will debate and explore ways to address the problems of children with learning disabilities.
Among the international speakers who will join the event are: Dr.Steve Chinn: Dyslexia and mathematics /dyscalculia guidance (UK), Dr.John Everatt - Surrey University (UK), Dr.Kate Nation Professor in Experimental Psychology - University of Oxford (UK), Mr. Stuart Dennis Executive Principal CEO, GEMS World Academy, Dubai - UAE, and Dr. Onita Nakra, Educational Psychologist and Counselor (Dubai UAE). There will be keynote addresses and presentations by psychologists, educationists and thought leaders, whose initiatives, analyses and assessments of the situation would lead to serious soul-searching on vital social issues.
The conference will be attended by some 400 delegates including principals, administrators, counselors, social workers, teachers, parents, researchers, adult literacy educators, college educators, correctional specialists, curriculum specialists, ld specialists, reading specialists, staff developers, speech & language specialists, library & media specialists, technology coordinators, medical and mental health professionals, teachers of special education and general education, education policy advocates and college student support personnel, adults with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and parents of children with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
