Date

Time

Title

Leader

April 22

8:30-9:30am

Effects of schema-broadening tutoring on word-problem skill of students with risk for math difficulty

Rebecca Zumeta, Vanderbilt

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM (poster)

Meta-analysis of graphic organizer research with students with learning disabilities: Classroom implications

Douglas Dexter, Penn State University

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM (poster)

Response of at-risk kindergarten students to tiered vocabulary instruction

Elizabeth Tuckwiller, University of Virginia

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

 Learning how to improve tier-1 vocabulary instruction through teacher study groups

Joseph A. Dimino, Instructional Research Group

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Discover Bookshare and accessible books

Betsy Burgess, Bookshare for Education

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Learning rates of students with learning disabilities and behavioral disorders: Longitudinal analysis

Corey Pierce, University of Northern Colorado

1:15 PM - 2:00 PM (poster)

Using an ecological model to examine the classification of reading disabilities

Wei-Pai Lu, University of Virginia

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM (poster)

Development and validation of a handwriting assessment: A study of the municipality of Cascais (Portugal)

Leonor Ribeiro, CADIn

April 23

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Graphic organizers and students with learning disabilities: How theory guides practice

Douglas Dexter, Penn State University

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Evidence-based practices for computation instruction among elementary students with mathematics disabilities

Susan Miller, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM (poster)

Twice-exceptional students participating in Advanced Placement or college credit classes

Susan Schultz, St. John Fisher College

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM (poster)

Executive functioning: Beneficial for all students

James Strosnider, Success Institute

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

Main idea and summarization: Improving text comprehension for students with learning disabilities

Meenakshi Gajria, St. Thomas Aquinas College

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The best of both worlds: Integrating technology and instruction to increase reading comprehension

Jason Gibson, University of Kentucky

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Ask, reflect, text: Using art in the prewriting phase of story writing

Michael Dunn, Washington State University

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM (poster)

Self-concept and academic performance in high school students with disabilities

Kathleen Madden, Hermosa Beach, CA

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Supporting the achievement of middle school students with LD in science classrooms

Gillian Puttick, TERC

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Town Hall Meeting--The future of Learning Disabilities: RTI, NCLB, and whatever comes next

Louis Danielson, American Institutes for Research

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Self-efficacy and engagement in writing: An interactive effect

Leigh Hutchison, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Research-based expository comprehension strategies for students with learning disabilities

Jeffrey Bakken, Illinois State University

April 24

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Bridging the gap between prescribed curricula and targeted instruction

Diane Haager, California State University

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM (poster)

Improving reading comprehension outcomes for middle school students in inclusionary settings

Michael Solis, University of Texas, Austin

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM (poster)

An analysis of ratio and proportion instruction in middle school mathematics textbooks

Fumio Someki, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

Dealing with colleaguesÕ resistance to change

Stuart Gerber, Southern Connecticut State University

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

High school students with Learning Disabilities: A reading and strategy use profile

Catherine Wigent, Michigan State University

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM (poster)

Encouraging students with Learning Disabilities to develop self-knowledge: A design for instruction

Jennifer Stringfellow, Eastern Illinois University

1:15 PM - 2:00 PM (poster)

Interventions for students with Learning Disabilities in middle school science classrooms

Julie Green, Clemson University

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Reading, writing, spelling, and math strategies for grades 4 and above

Karen Rooney, Educational Enterprises, Inc