The International Dyslexia Association - Ohio Valley Branch

The Feb. 10, 1010 -OVB Annual Meeting is CANCELLED.

It is rescheduled for March 10.

February 10, 2010

The viewing of the new video Readmedifferently.

All welcome.  You need not be a member.

Our Parent/Teacher Support Group meets three times a year.

All meetings are at:
Oakley Community Plaza
3882 Paxton Avenue (Hyde Park Plaza)
Cincinnati, OH 45209

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2009-2010 Calendar

All meetings are free and are scheduled from 7:00 -8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010    (click on the date for a printable flier)

Topic:  Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Learn how to assist your child in developing vocabulary and reading comprehension strategies – essential steps for “reading to learn.”

Speaker:  Jeanne Anderson

Jeanne  is currently  President, Ohio Valley  Branch of  IDA and does teacher training in multisensory teaching methods for Mayerson Academy.  She was Director of the 32nd Degree Masonic Learning Centers for Children in Cincinnati and Norwood from 1998 to 2008.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Topic:  Social/Emotional Issues of Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities

This discussion will focus on social and emotional challenges and strengths that children with learning and related disorders face in their school experience and relationships with others.

Speakers:  Diana Sauter, Ph.D., NCSP - School and Clinical Psychologist in the Forest Hills School District.  Carol Duke, M.Ed.- Private Tutor and Teacher Trainer.

For further information contact OVB/IDA at 651-4747  or  Mary Ellen Villalobos 513-474-2537 or email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Saturday, March 20, 2010.             

Vocabulary & Comprehension:

The Best Way to Integrate the Two

         Presented by Mary Dahlgren

Mary Dahlgren, Ed.D, is president of MED Consulting  and Tools 4 Reading. She  has over twenty years of experience teaching children and training teachers. She has worked as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, teacher trainer and consultant to numerous state departments of education and local education agencies. She is a National LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) trainer, an Academic Language Therapy Association qualified instructor and an Alphabetic Phonics therapist. She is the former Executive Director of Payne Education Center, a non-profit teacher training center in Oklahoma.

The Center was established to provide teacher training for teachers of dyslexic students and to support for parents of dyslexic children. Mary served as an evaluator on the E-TEAM at the University of Oklahoma that conducted the national evaluation of the Reading Success Network. This provided Mary the opportunity to observe and assess reading instruction in kindergarten through third grade classrooms all over the United States.  Dr. Dahlgren is a founding board member of a school for adjudicated youth, SeeWorth Academy, organized by the late Chief Justice Alma Wilson. Justice Wilson named the school SeeWorth in hopes the children would “see the worth’ in education and the future. Mary's passion is to help everyone involved in reading instruction to feel equipped and confident in order to make a difference in the lives of children.

 For more information and Conference Flier.......

A group consisting of members from the three IDA Branches in Ohio: Northern Ohio, Central Ohio, and the Ohio Valley Branch continue to meet and plan for a Dyslexia Law to be introduced to the Ohio Legislature.

Timeline: 2010-Spread awareness of the need for Dyslexia Legislation.