EDUCATIONAL
TESTING SERVICE
Communications & Public Affairs
Princeton, New Jersey
Educational Testing Service & The National Center
For Learning Disabilities
Host Two-Day Meeting
Contact:
Tom Ewing
609-683-2803
September 25, 2006
MEDIA ADVISORY: Experts to Address Legal and
Educational Challenges Facing Students with Learning Disabilities
as They Transition to College
WHAT: ETS and the National Center for Learning
Disabilities are hosting a two-day meeting to address issues
associated with the increasing numbers of students with learning
disabilities over the past 30 years and the challenges they face
as they transition to higher education. This is the first such
symposium of its kind.
BACKGROUND: As the number of students with learning
disabilities attending colleges and universities has grown over
the past thirty years, so too have the number of issues faced
by students, parents, and educators. These changes include:
- increase in the hot button issues surrounding high school exit
exams and college admissions testing for students with learning
disabilities,
- increase in the number of students with learning disabilities
(LD) and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD),
- changes in the laws and the documentation requirements for
high school and college students and the expectations between
high school and college for students with learning disabilities,
- new emphasis on high expectations for transition planning in
students’ Individualized Education Programs (IEPs),
- growth in the number of colleges for students with learning
disabilities and programs within colleges focused on providing
services to students with learning disabilities,
- growth in assistive technologies that increase learning opportunities
and independence in higher education,
- changes to the reporting of admission test scores for students
with learning disabilities who received testing accommodations.
This symposium will focus on the educational and legal changes
and how they impact college opportunities, transitions, and outcomes
for students with learning disabilities. Participants include parents,
school administrators, guidance counselors, college admissions
professionals, postsecondary disability coordinators, researchers,
and members of learning disabilities advocacy groups.
WHEN: Tuesday, October 3 and 4, 2006
HOW: The media is invited to join us for this
important conference, which will be held on the grounds of ETS
in Princeton, N.J.
RSVP to Tom Ewing at tewing@ets.org or
609-683-2803. For more information, contact Amy Lallier, Symposium
Coordinator, (609) 734-5058, alallier@ets.org.
WHO: The following are confirmed speakers for the conference:
- Manju Banerjee, University of Connecticut – Storrs
- Jose Blackorby, SRI International
- Loring Brinckerhoff, ETS
- Cara Cahalan-Laitusis, ETS
- Penny Dragonetti, Family Support Center of New Jersey
- Noel Gregg, University of Georgia
- Salome Heyward, Salome Heyward & Associates
- Sheldon Horowitz, National Center for Learning Disabilities
- Stevan Kukic, Sopris West Educational Services
- Kurt Landgraf, ETS
- Corey Leneker, Evergreen State College
- Michael Nettles, ETS
- Diana Pullin, Boston College
- Jim Rein, B&R Resources, Inc.
- Peter Rice, Middlesex County College
- Arlyn Roffman, Lesley University
- Michael Shuttic, Association for Higher Education and Disabilities
- Martha Thurlow, Nation Center on Educational Outcomes
- Richard Varn, RJV Consulting
- Vincent Varrassi, Fairleigh Dickenson University
- James Wendorf, National Center for Learning Disabilities
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