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Bonnie Singer, who co-developed the EmPOWER step-by-step method for helping school-age children understand, plan and successfully complete writing assignments, will be the featured speaker at Western Carolina University’s 15th annual Cullowhee Conference on Communicative Disorders.
Singer (pictured) will present “EmPOWER Student Writers: Strategic Instruction Methods for the Classroom,” from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 14, at Sylva United Methodist Church. The conference continues with a session about emergent literacy from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15.
“Dr. Singer will discuss why so many children struggle with writing and share specific strategies for helping students develop writing methods and skills that they will use for the rest of their lives,” said Billy T. Ogletree, head of WCU’s communication sciences and disorders department. “Her workshop will be valuable not only to educators and speech-language pathologists but also to parents.”
Singer, a certified speech-language pathologist, founded Massachusetts-based Architects For Learning to help educators develop effective teaching and learning strategies for students who are struggling academically.
Kimberly Crawford, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders at WCU, will lead the Saturday workshop titled “Connections in Language and Emergent Literacy: The Speech-Language Pathologist’s Role.”
The conference is sponsored by Western’s communication sciences and disorders department and the WCU student chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association. Registration is $40. An additional $5 processing fee will be charged for participants who wish to record their participation for continuing education credit with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association or the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
For information or to register, contact Ogletree at (828) 227-3379 or by e-mail at ogletree@email.wcu.edu.
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