Loyalist College is pleased to welcome Dr. Stephanie Anne Timmer of Premier Assistive Canada, as speaker for a reading and writing workshop aimed at helping educators, and students and adults with learning disabilities understand how learning is impacted by the digital age.
Dr. Timmer, co-owner and co-founder of Premier Literacy, has dedicated much of her professional life to literacy and accessibility. A popular speaker throughout Canada and the United States, thousands of people have heard her messages of empowerment and overcoming challenges. Having lost her vision as a young woman, Dr. Timmer has spent much of her life working to overcome adversity and challenges. Since losing her sight, she has earned two doctorate degrees; developed a comprehensive line of software solutions for people with reading and writing challenges; formed a successful assistive technology company; and, helped thousands of people reach their potential.
Acting Vice-President Enrolment Management and Student Services, Catherine O’Rourke, explained that the workshop: Understanding How Technology Influences Learning Styles, will illustrate how students with learning disabilities use new media and technologies to create new things in new ways, learn new things in new ways, and communicate in new ways with new people.
“We are very fortunate to have Dr. Timmer visit Loyalist to speak,” she said. “It is a wonderful opportunity for our community to learn more about this important subject.”
Free of charge and open to all, the session will cover everything from understanding attention span and how it affects learning, to using technology to help students efficiently identify the critical information in a document without reading the entire document.
The session will be of great value to parents, youth, and educational and health professionals interested in how the creation of successful classrooms and meaningful learning requires using technology to create and promote barrier-free learning.
The workshop will take place in Alumni Hall, Tuesday, November 23, 7–9 p.m. For detailed information, please click here and RSVP by Friday, November 19, 2010 to Ted Morrison, morrison@loyalistc.on.ca, (613) 969-1913, ext. 2109.
Media Contact: Edina Cappuccitti, College Advancement & External Relations, Loyalist College, (613) 969-1913, ext. 2392; ecappuccitti@loyalistc.on.ca