From: patt@squid.tram.com (Patt Bromberger)
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Subject: Conference on Individual Differences & Reading Disabilities
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:03:26 GMT
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 from: leigh@unibase.Unibase.SK.CA (Leigh Calnek)
 Organization: Unibase Telecom Ltd.
 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 02:08:01 GMT

Announcing On-Line Workshop/Seminars on
        INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND READING DISABILITY

UNIBASE, an on-line system for educators operating from
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada will be hosting  an On Line
Conference on Individual Differences and Reading Disability.
This on-line conference will focus on the theory and rehabilitation
of reading disability with a major emphasis on neuropsychological
individuality and the Direct Access Reading Technique.

The Conference will be led by Dr. Bob Zenhausern of
St. John's Universtity in New York and Anne Pemberton of Nottoway, VA.
Dr. Zenhausern has developed Direct Access which is emerging as an effective
force in the elimination of reading disability.  Anne Pemberton is a leader
in the Virgina State Educational Network and a teacher of High School
students diagnosed as learning disabled.  The conference will consist of both
asynchronous conference sessions and on-line real-time sessions, both of
which are intended to be highly interactive.  The number of participants
will be limited to 20, with teachers of special education receiving priority
in acceptance.  The conference messages, however, will be posted to other
lists and non-interactive observation will be possible.  Questions from these
observers can be submitted to the conference leaders and incorporated into
future sessions.

If you are interested contact Leigh Calnek the conference coordinator via
email <leigh@unibase.unibase.sk.ca> within the next few days.  Please
indicate an interest in FULL or READ-ONLY participation.  The projected
starting date is the week of November 2, 1992.  Direct
access to the internet will be required in order to
participate in the real-time discussions.  The conference is
expected to run between 4 and 6 weeks depending upon
participant interest.

About Dr. Bob Zenhausern:

 BS    Fordham University, 1960
 MS    Fordham University, 1963
 Ph.D. Fordham University, 1969

Dr. Zenhausern is a Full professor of Psychology at St. Johns
University where he has been teaching since 1963.  His work is in the
area of behavioral neuropsychology and involves two  distinct areas.
One involves the theory, diagnosis, and remediation of learning
disabilities.  There are ongoing projects using the Direct Access
approach to reading in North Carolina and New York City. His second
area of interest is concerned with international computer networking
using Bitnet and the Internet.  Children are given the opportunity to
communicate with children from around the world and the effects on
education are evaluated.

 Recent Publications

 Zenhausern, R. (1987) Instructional strategies and the causes
 of reading disability. Internatinal Journal of Neuroscience.
 34, 55-62.

 Zenhausern, R. (1988) Eyes Right. Teaching K through 8, 23,
 76-78.

 Markman, S. & Zenhausern, R. (1988) The interaction of
 hemispheric related strategies and individual differences in
 learning. International Journal of Neuroscience, 43, 165-170.

 Kaliski, M., Zenhausern, R., Andrews, R. (1990). The direct access
 method of teaching reading and the diagnosis and remediation
 of reading disability.  International Journal of Neuroscience.

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Leigh Calnek
Internet: leigh@unibase.unibase.sk.ca
voice: 306/789-9007