An international educational conference for TEACHERS, administrators, special ed professionals, psychologists, learning specialists, speech/language pathologists, clinicians, school nurses

This important conference brings you the most recent findings in cognitive neuroscience from preeminent researchers from Harvard, MIT, and Yale Universities, and helps you formulate practical strategies that will address students’ learning styles and struggles, create exciting and accessible brain-based classroom learning environments, and enable all students to become confident, optimal learners.

May 9-11, 2002, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cambridge, MA.

Conference will address brain development, language development, reading, dyslexia, memory, The brain's learning styles, emotions and behavior, imagination and play, perception and attention, early childhood development, experience and brain plasticity, teens brains and moral development, stress and gender in learning, brain-based strategies, classroom management, and the latest brain research findings on autism, SLI, ADHD, learning disabilities, and more!

Keynote speakers:
"Stress, Gender and Learning"
Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D., Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head of the Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller University; international leading expert on the effects of stress and sex hormones on learning and memory

"Language and Reading Development, Difficulties, and Intervention"
G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D., Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health

"Perception and Attention: The Gateways to the Brain"
John J. Ratey, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; author, User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain (2001); co-author, Shadow Syndromes (1997), and Driven to Distraction (1995)

Conference Co-Sponsors
Kosik Laboratory of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
Boston University School of Education, Special. Education Dept.
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
Public Information Resources, Inc. (PIRI)