McKinney Christian Multisensory Teacher Training

Our July Intro class- aka “the Sisterhood of the Traveling Phonemes” makes me so proud to be their “Phoneme Travel Guide.”

Honored that Pam, our MCA-MTT director, is speaking at the ALTA Illinois chapter.

📌 SIGN-UP TODAY! 🎤10/30 - ALTA Illinois Chapter Presents: Written expression is a complex process that requires the integration of related foundational literacy skills, of which many require the use of executive function skills.

✏️With this in mind, the focus of Pam's presentation is to identify common challenges that students face with written expression and provide research-based instructional approaches to help remediate these difficulties. The presentation will be grounded in writing theory and relevant research with practical application embedded throughout the presentation

✅Click to Learn More & Register: http://ow.ly/Yf0e50Gsxry

Congratulations, Beverly! We are so proud of you!

ALTA HONORARY MEMBER

The ALTA Board of Directors is happy to announce that Beverly Dooley, CALT-QI, has been approved as an Honorary Member of ALTA.
In 1986, Beverly was a Charter Member of ALTA. Beverly also was a founding member of the former ALTA Centers Council. Beverly has dedicated her career to preparing therapists to work with students with dyslexia. In 1978, Beverly founded the Shelton Multisensory Teacher Training Program. Following this, Beverly became the Founding Director of the Southwest Multisensory Training Center and later, Founding Director of McKinney Christian Multisensory Teacher Training Center. In 2013, Beverly received the Jamie G. Williams ALTA Founders Award for her contributions to ALTA. During her career, she has trained over 450 CALTs, 12 CALPs, and 12 CALT-QIs. Additionally, Beverly served for three years as President of the Dallas Branch of IDA. ALTA is so proud of Beverly’s work and the many, many lives that have been changed because of it.
Congratulations, Beverly!

MCA-MTT Winter Newsletter 2019

Parenting Adolescents? Here's a great podcast from Dr. Ken Wilgus to discuss strategies and insight into successful parenting. https://feeding-the-mouth-that-bites-you.simplecast.com/episodes - link to episodes!

Today I shared the results of dyslexia testing with parents, explaining each assessment and how the scores, as well as other qualitative data, indicated that dyslexia therapy was the best intervention for their child. The parents, however, declined services because they felt that to say a child is dyslexic was saddling them with a detrimental label when they didn’t believe it was true. They prefer to wait and see and assured me that they would work with their child daily to close the gaps identified in the testing. I pray they are right - but I fear they are wrong. Of course I am biased and feel that it’s better to err on the side of caution than sit back and hope that what hasn’t worked in the past will suddenly create a miraculous change. Precious time will tell....

Recipients of the 2019 Linda Laird Memorial award - Tyler Bankston and Polly Kruppenbach Reagor with Peggy Brooks and Beverly Dooley.

New book to share with your students!