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Professional Visit Days

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Participants listen to presentation at Landmark College
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We invite education professionals who work with students with learning disabilities, ADHD, or autism to visit our campus. Let us share with you how and why Landmark College’s unique approach works for students who learn differently.

Professional Visit Days

Spring 2023 Dates 

  • Thursday and Friday, April 13-14 
  • Thursday and Friday, May 4-5 

Register
April 2023     Register
May 2023

Your visit will include:

  • Meeting current Landmark College students
  • Presentations by Landmark College faculty and staff on educational technology, coaching, our Language Intensive Curriculum (LIC), college planning services, and much more
  • Campus tour
  • Information about our on- and off-campus programs as well as our online options
  • Certificate of Attendance, that some states allow to be used towards educational credits
  • A special pre-event presentation and reception for attendees who arrive the evening before.
    (See below for details.)

         Sample Agenda; Presentations subject to change

Who should attend?

  • Educational consultants
  • High school guidance counselors
  • High school special education coordinators
  • College academic advisors
  • College learning support coordinators

Expenses covered by Landmark College include:

  • Travel stipends of up to $550 for those who travel by air and up to $225 for those who travel by ground transportation (to help offset transportation and lodging expenses)
  • Continental breakfasts, lunches, and hors d'oeuvres on Thursday afternoon

Other professional learning opportunities:

The Landmark College Institute for Research and Training (LCIRT) offers professional learning for educators around the world, including workshops, webinars, online courses, and the Landmark College Summer Institute. Topics include language-based learning disabilities (including dyslexia), ADHD, autism, executive function, technologies for educational access, reading and literacy, math disorders, universal design and its application, documentation and accommodations, and educational transitions across the life span.

Questions?

Ferne Bork
Assistant Director of Admissions and Training Coordinator
(802) 387-7117
fernebork@landmark.edu

 


Additional Information

  • Sample PVD Agenda [PDF]

    Thursday
     
    8:30 a.m.
    Lobby to Brooks M. O'Brien Auditorium—Lewis Academic Building
    Check-in
    8:45 a.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Making the Most of Your Landmark College Visit
    9 a.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    President’s Welcome
    9:15 a.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Understanding Complex Barriers to Learning Among Students with Learning Disabilities: A Self-Advocacy Model
    10:15 a.m.
    Break
    10:30 a.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Academic Program and Placement Overview
    11:30 a.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Student Panel
    12:15 p.m.
    Alumni Hall, Dining Hall
    Lunch
    1:15 p.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Short-Term Programs Overview
    1:45 p.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Career Connections
    2:30 p.m.
    Break
    2:40 p.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Engaging Students Through a Coordinated Educational Program Model
    4 p.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Daily Wrap Up, Q & A, and Overview of Next Day
     
    Friday
     
    9 a.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Overview of Landmark College Online Learning Opportunities for High School Students
    10 a.m.
    Break
    10:15 a.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium
    Executive Function: A Crucial Factor in Student Success
    11:15 a.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium—EAB
    Emerging Trends, Innovative Research, and Cutting-Edge Practices: How LCIRT is Leading the Way
    11:45 a.m.
    Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium—EAB
    Student-Guided Campus Tour
    12:30 p.m.
    Alumni Hall, Dining Hall
    Lunch

  • headshot of Denise Brodey, a woman with short brown hair smilingTitle: LD Disclosure: Pros, Cons and Surprising Personal Experiences
    Speaker: Denise Brodey, founder, Rebel Talent; Forbes Senior Contributor, DEI
    Date: Wednesday, April 12, 7 p.m.

    Presentation summary:

    To disclose or not to disclose? When students with a learning difference (LD) enter the workplace – whether internship, part-time job, or full-time career – they face the weighty decision of whether to disclose their LD to their employer. Denise Brodey, founder of Rebel Talent and senior contributor to Forbes will discuss the how, when, and why of making that decision. The work world has changed dramatically in the last decade—even in the last two years—making life more complicated but also, in some ways, easier for people to disclose their learning disabilities and attention challenges. Brodey’s talk will cover her own personal experiences as well as others and help put those changes in context.

    Attendees will also gain a deeper understanding of how to create a psychologically safe, supported, and enjoyable environment for employees with learning differences such as ADHD. Throughout her talk, Brodey, a longtime journalist with a sense of humor that she says is one of the secrets to her success, will weave her own lived experience into the discussion as well as those of students and others she has interviewed. An audience Q&A will follow Brodey’s talk.

    About Denise Brodey:

    Denise Brodey is a journalist with a candid and clear-eyed view of being ADHD and dyslexic as an adult in the workplace. She currently writes for Forbes and is a regular on national podcasts and news shows such as ADHDWomen and YahooFinance. She continues to be a pioneer in writing honestly and openly about invisible disabilities through the lens of lived experience. The Elephant in the Playroom (Penguin) included her candid views, woven in between more than 40 parents' original stories. It was named a Library Journal Best Book in 2007. She was awarded the BroadFutures Champion Award in 2021. She currently writes for Forbes, Boston Globe, Thrive Global, HuffPost, and Medium and is the founder of REBEL TALENT (elephants-everywhere.com). 

  • Photo of man wearing orange sweater and glasses posing for photo while leaning on the hood of a jeep. Title: Different ≠ Disordered
    Speaker: John Elder Robison, bestselling author and Advisor to the LC Center for Neurodiversity
    Date: Wednesday, May 3, 7 p.m. 

    This talk will address the socio-historical factors that led to neurodivergent people being classified as disordered, and why that might or might not be accurate. He will also make the case that these individuals have played a key role in the advance of civilization, and how adopting a mindset that embraces neurodiversity benefits all of humanity. He will share some of his own experiences as a proud, neurodiverse individual.

    John Elder Robison is a New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and advocate for autistic people. He is the author of several books on autism spectrum disorder, including Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening, and Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s.

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