Education Professionals

Professional Journal Club—The Learning Resource Center hosts a monthly journal club in which area professionals gather for an informal presentation of a current research article or topic. If you are interested in joining us for these thought provoking meetings contact us by phone or e-mail.

Previous Meeting topics:

June 2009 — Benefits of Immediate Feedback on Learning Math Facts.

July 2009 — Cognitive Functioning in Alzheimer’s and Vascular Dementia: A Meta-Analysis (Neuropsychology—2009)

August 2009 — Do Different Components of Working Memory Underlie Different Subgroups of Reading Disabilities? (Journal of Learning Disabilities—May/June 2006)

September 2009 — Facilitating Functional Social-Communication Skills in Adolescents With Asperger’s Syndrome (University of Wisconsin)

November 2009— Gender Identity Issues

December 2009—Stress Management

March 2010—Review of When the Brain Can’t Hear by Teri James Bellis

October 2010— Asperger’s Syndrome

November 2010— Bipolar Disorder in Children

February 2011 — Executive Function Disorders in Adolescents

March 2011— Childhood Traumas Influence Health in Adulthood

April 2011— Rapid Automatic Naming and it’s correlation with reading failure

May 2011— Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome

June 2011— Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome: Middle School and Beyond

July 2011– The Correlation Between Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) and Reading Ability.