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College Panel

January 7, 2015

Parent Networking Group Coffee

January 10, 2015

HBIDA Conference

Michele Berg, Ph. D.

February 21, 2015

Texas

Dyslexia Handbook

The 2014 revision of

The Dyslexia Handbook: Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders is now available through Region 10 Educational Service Center.

Click here.

HBIDA 2014

Resource Directory

IDA Fact Sheet

When Educational Promises Are Too Good to Be True

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College Panel 2015

College Panel 2014

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

7 - 9 PM

Neuhaus Education Center

4433 Bissonnet Street

Bellaire, TX 77401

To register online, click here.

Interview

Rachel Yarus

2014 College Panel Participant

Rachel Yarus, 2014 College Panel participant, recently answered some questions about the impact of being dyslexic in college. Rachel graduated from School of the Woods. She is a junior at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, majoring in sociology with a minor in history. Rachel plans to continue her education by pursuing a graduate degree in archeology.

To read the interview, click here.

HBIDA Annual Report

Jessica Harris, president of HBIDA, presented the 2014 Annual Report at the annual membership meeting on December 1. New Board and Advisory Council members were introduced. Members of the Parent Networking Group reviewed their activities in 2014 and their plans for 2015.

To read the 2014 HBIDA Annual Report, click here.

James Carter conferring with conference participant.

Carole Wills and James Carter at Region 4 ESC Dyslexia Conference on December 4, 2014.

James P. Carter, M.A., CCC, SLP, Educational Diagnostician, Assistant Clinical Professor - Baylor College of Medicine, Manager - Speech, Language and Learning at Texas Children's Hospital, and a past president of HBIDA, gave a well-attended presentation on the basics of dyslexia on December 4, 2014 at the 15th Annual Region 4 ESC Dyslexia Conference. He discussed the history, characteristics, causes, definition, appropriate intervention, available resources, and controversial treatments.