Unlocking your child’s potential.

Miriam: The Learning Disability Experts presents

Miriam Empowers Through EducationEmpowering students to achieve new heights!

Please join us for our winter 2014 workshop series designed for parents and educators of students with learning disabilities. All events are FREE, but

registration is required.

To register send your name and workshop preferences to rsvp.now@miriamstl.org or call 314.968.3893.

Non Profit Org.U.S. POSTAGE

PAIDPermit No. 920St. Louis, MO

Miriam Foundation501 Bacon AvenueSt. Louis, Missouri 63119

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 from 6:30 – 8:00 pmThe Sensory Child Cindy McFarland, OTR/L & Lori Lamb, OTR/L, Miriam School Occupational TherapistsBack by popular demand! Come learn from Miriam School’s veteran occupational therapists about how sensory integration is connected with a student’s classroom success. Understand what sensory processing disorder can mean for a child and participate in simulations that mimic the difficulties these children can experience. This hands-on seminar will leave you with some very practical tools to help a student with sensory needs reach their academic potential.

Friday, February 14, 2014 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm An Effective Classroom Environment: Building and Managing Student Social Skills Jennifer L. Wilke-Deaton, M.A., L.P.A.How can teachers, therapists, and parents work together to create an engaging class and home environment that helps improve a student’s social skills? Jennifer Wilke-Deaton will inspire you with her hands-on-approach and more than 75 easily applied interventions, activities, and strategies to quickly make progress with children and adolescents with limited social skills. Jen’s passion and time-tested tactics from the trenches will leave you feeling empowered and prepared to be effective in making progress with these students.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 from 6:30 – 8:00 pmProject Based Learning for Special Education Mary Cognata, M.Ed., Lisa Stover M.Ed., Jenny Wand, B.S., Miriam School FacultyChildren with disabilities learn best using innovative and experiential methods. Project Based Learning, an instructional strategy where students respond to a complex question through the planning, implementation and evaluation of projects that have real-world applications, is quickly becoming a buzzword in the educational field. Hear from administrators and teachers about how students at Miriam School are learning essential academic content and practicing 21st century skills using this instructional model in both elementary and middle school classrooms.

Workshop availability is subject to attendance and weather conditions. Workshops will be held in the Miriam School gym at 501 Bacon Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63119.

To register send your name and workshop preferences to rsvp.now@miriamstl.org or call 314.968.3893.

Half-Day Seminar