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July 2008 Conferences

July 8 - 10, 2008 19th Annual GSA Child Care Training Conference Sponsored by GSA San Francisco, CA, United States Phone: 404 331-1851 Web Site: http://www.gsa.gov E-mail: nancy.norris@gsa.gov	July 10, 2008 - July 12, 2007 Active Parenting Training of Trainers Sponsored by Active Parenting Publishers Atlanta (Kennesaw), Georgia, United States Phone: 1-800-825-0060 x120 Web Site: http://www.activeparenting.com/total.htm E-mail: training@activeparenting.com Active Parenting's annual Training of Trainers (ToT) workshops are a mixture of fun and learning. Three days of vigorous training will help you expand your professional skills while learning to train new parenting educators for your organization and community. The Training of Trainers workshop will show you how to: -Train parenting education program leaders -Conduct Active Parenting Leader Training Workshops -Improve presentation skills -Gain a deeper knowledge of the programs -Find ways to make the programs fit the audience -Exchange ideas with other professionals -Receive 2.0 CEUs or 20 contact hours from NBCC
July 15 - 16, 2008 Making Music a Multi-Sensory Experience Sponsored by Sanguine Consulting Singapore, Singapore Phone: +6596455889 Web Site: http://www.sanguineconsulting.com E-mail: june@sanguineconsulting.com Brain research now suggests that thinking and moving are closely linked. Through sensory motor activities, connections are made that provide the framework for higher thinking. A child’s self esteem is also enhanced when their motor skills are highly developed. Using varied props in gross motor and fine motor activities encourages hand and eye and foot and eye coordination. It lays the building blocks for eye convergence, essential for reading and writing. Movement and sensation are closely linked, only when the movement and sensation are fully integrated in a child’s developing brain can they learn optimally. Our skin is the body’s largest sense organ and is linked, through the brain to both the eyes and the ears. Our children need a rich sensory experience to fully engage the brain and multi-sensory music and movement activities can provide a strong basis for achieving this. Activities that include playful rhymes, songs, dances games and lots of varied movement with objects to move, feel, touch , hold and watch will encourage sensory motor integration, motor timing skills, and motor planning skills. Pre-schoolers need lots of gross motor activities to prepare for the fine motor skills needed as they meet later learning challenges.	July 17 - 19, 2008 18th National Conference "Challenge for Excellence" Sponsored by NAFCC Schaumburg, Illinois, United States Phone: 801-269-9338 x 112 Web Site: http://www.nafcc.org E-mail: conference@nafcc.org
July 21 - 23, 2008 Working Forum Nature Education for Young Children Sponsored by World Forum Foundation Nebraska City, NE, United States Web Site: http://www.worldforumfoundation.org E-mail: tarah@dimensionsfoundation.org.	July 22 - 24, 2008 The Eight Annual Early Childhood Inclusion Institute Sponsored by FPG Child Development Institute Chapel Hill, NC, United States Phone: 919-962-7315 Web Site: http://www.nectac.org/~meetings/inclusionmtg2008/splash.html E-mail: joan_danaher@unc.edu The Institute is the premier educational opportunity for anyone involved in the care and education of children birth through age five with special needs in inclusive settings. Attendees will learn about the latest research findings and resources to guide inclusive policy, professional development and practice; develop collaborative relationships and cross-agency systems to support early childhood inclusion; gain awareness of strategies and models to support inclusive services; and have the opportunity to meet, learn from and problem solve with peers.
July 30 - August 1, 2008 S.E.E.K - Successfully Educating Exceptional Kids Sponsored by Sanguine Consulting Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Phone: +6596455889 Web Site: http://www.sanguineconsulting.com E-mail: june@sanguineconsulting.com The incidence of autism spectrum disorders is alarming. Autism spectrum disorders are now a medical epidemic. Intervention strategies are more important than ever for providing supports to our students so that they may become productive citizens and/or to provide for an enriched quality of life. This three-day workshop provides an in-depth look at practical strategies that can be implemented in a self-contained classroom for students with developmental disabilities. These research-based strategies are also appropriate within a classroom where the student with autism spectrum disorders is included.