The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia - Screening and Panel Discussion

Please join us for 

The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia


Screening and Panel Discussion


Wednesday, October 30, 2013


7:00 - 9:00 pm

Atlanta
Speech School Love Auditorium Dyslexia is the most common learning disability,
estimated to affect 1 in 5 children, yet the most publicly misunderstood.
Children who are

dyslexic are bright yet struggle with reading.



The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia provides personal and uplifting accounts
of the dyslexic experience from children, experts and iconic leaders, such as
Sir Richard Branson and financier Charles Schwab. Directed by James Redford,
the film not only clears up the misconceptions about the condition, but also
paints a picture of hope for all who struggle with it.

• Sarah Batts, Wardlaw School alumna and Principal Major Gifts & Director at Piedmont Healthcare Foundation
• Mary Flanagan, parent
• Sondra Mims, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, Upper School Director, Wardlaw School
• Leslie Munson, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist and Chief Academic Officer at the Atlanta Speech School
• Nicole Patton-Terry, Ph.D., Associate
  
  
  Professor, Department of Educational Psychology & Special Education,
  
  
  and Member, Center for Research on Atypical Development and Learning,
  
  
  at Georgia State University; and a Research Scientist at Haskins
  
  
  Laboratories at Yale University.

The Atlanta Speech School has a long history of serving children with

dyslexia. In addition to having a Language and Learning Disabilities Department on its campus, the School served as the outsourced special education department of the metro-Atlanta school systems from the mid-1950s until federal law required that school systems provide their own services in 1975. The Language and Learning Disabilities Department

is now known as the Wardlaw School, and it is recognized nationally as one of the top programs in the country for children with dyslexia.


Click here to learn more about the Wardlaw School.