Breaking the Silence What People with Disabilities Have Been Waiting to Tell You.
November 12, 2011
David Flink, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Project Eye-To-Eye is the keynote speaker for our third annual symposium.
David Flink and Jonathan Mooney, author of “The Short Bus” founded Eye-to-Eye, which is a national mentoring program that matches college and high school students acting as tutors, role models and mentors, with elementary, middle, and high school students with LD/ADHD to empower them and to help them find success. Like many who are eventually diagnosed with dyslexia, David Flink’s first…
The Graduate Program in Art Education with an Emphasis in Special Populations will present 2010’s day-long symposium with Keynote Speaker Peter Geisser exploring the best teaching and learning practices for children with special needs. Mr. Geisser begins the day with an address followed by questions and discussion.
Peter Geisser retired in 2003 after over 30 years as art teacher at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf. He was a Continuing Education Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. He developed an Art/Art History Program that received worldwide recognition and was described in School…
WHAT EVERY TEACHER AND SPECIAL EDUCATOR NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT ART AND SPECIAL EDUCATION
The Art Education Graduate Program with an Emphasis in Special Populations at Moore College of Art & Design will sponsor a day-long symposium, with Keynote Speaker Dr. Beverly Gerber, exploring the best teaching and learning practices for children with special needs. Dr. Gerber begins the day with her personal story as a passionate arts advocate for special needs children. Her presentation, entitled Special Needs and Art: Lessons Learned Along the Way, will both inspire and inform the audience. There is a…