UCSF Dyslexia Center

#UConnBIRC Special Virtual Seminar. Kicking off with Prof Daniel Ansari. WHEN: 4/1 Wed 1-2:15pm EST (NY time). TITLE: Number symbols in brain & mind REGISTRAT...ION: https://bit.ly/2wthDTd Free & open to all. With talks cancelled these days, I am so excited! TY for donating your time Daniel! DETAILS: https://birc.uconn.edu/events/speaker-series/ See more

The UCSF Dyslexia Phenotyping study is currently seeking families with children, ages 7-14, who do not have learning differences to participate in our study looking at how language abilities develop in the brain. This is a wonderful opportunity for children to contribute to science and learn about how their brain works. Participants can earn up to $100 and will receive a picture of their brain. If you are interested in participating, please reach out to the study's coordinator at [email protected].

Do you have children WITHOUT learning differences of ages 7-13? Do you want to know your child’s strengths and weakness in detail? If so, the UCSF Dyslexia Center currently has a fantastic opportunity for your family. As many of you know, we have been doing cutting edge research on learning differences in children for over the past 2 years. Our research hopes to find out the unique strengths of kids with learning differences and how these can be used to create new interventi...ons to help them. We are now providing the same opportunity to those without learning differences. We ask that children come in for one full day of testing or two half days, but can be flexible with our time commitment if needed. Children can earn up to $80 in compensation for their time, and parking will also be reimbursed. If you are interested or have questions, please contact us by emailing [email protected]. Please share other families that you think may be interested. In the meantime, if you are interested in learning more about what we do, please visit our website at dyslexia.ucsf.edu!

#UConnBIRC Special Virtual Seminar. Kicking off with Prof Daniel Ansari. WHEN: 4/1 Wed 1-2:15pm EST (NY time). TITLE: Number symbols in brain & mind REGISTRAT...ION: https://bit.ly/2wthDTd Free & open to all. With talks cancelled these days, I am so excited! TY for donating your time Daniel! DETAILS: https://birc.uconn.edu/events/speaker-series/ See more

The UCSF Dyslexia Phenotyping study is currently seeking families with children, ages 7-14, who do not have learning differences to participate in our study looking at how language abilities develop in the brain. This is a wonderful opportunity for children to contribute to science and learn about how their brain works. Participants can earn up to $100 and will receive a picture of their brain. If you are interested in participating, please reach out to the study's coordinator at [email protected].

NEW! Call for @DyslexiaIDA Early Career Award for Contributions to Research. Due 6/1. Pls nominate your up-and-coming superstars within 5 yrs post PhD/EdD/MD. See attached. ANNUAL IDA CONFERENCE: 10/24-27/2018, Connecticut, U.S. https://goo.gl/JmJkvD Pls share.

Deadline for call for IDA Scientific Symposia proposals due 4/13 in 8 days!

Today Pamela Cohen,DDCA Regional Leader, Los Angeles and Fumiko Hoeft, MD, Ph.D, UCSF & Weill Institute for Neurosciences presented at the CA Association of Bil...ingual Educators conference in Sacramento. Their presentation, "Advocacy and Support for English Language Learners with Dyslexia" was well attended with with folks sitting on floor as they ran out of seats. See more

This is why we love what we do - science outreach! Reaching one child at a time in the Bay Area public schools...

The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is soliciting proposals until 4/13 for Scientific Symposia to be held at the annual conference (October 24-17, Mashantucket, CT USA). Junior and senior researchers alike, present your cutting-edge scientific research that links to practice, advocacy and policy. See attached for more details. Please share! Nominations for Early Career Award for Contributions to Research to be announced soon. With the new co-chairs of the IDA Scien...tific Advisory Board (Jason Yeatman, Fumiko Hoeft and Rick Wagner), IDA hopes to revamp the science of the IDA and bring a number of changes. Contact: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] for questions.

Love that Andre Agassi’s new Early Childhood Neuroscience Foundation will be supporting early literacy, dyslexia, early childhood education and very importantly... neuroscience, at UCSF and across the country! Thank you Katrina Sellers Maestri (and many many others) for all of your support to our center over the past years! Please join the movement! See more

Our lab (brainlens.org) is expanding and hiring postdocs and RAs to start immediately! Please help spread the word. We are currently recruiting for the followin...g positions: 1. Postdoctoral Scholar (for a computational neuroimaging / neurolinguistics project): http://brainlens.org/images/Ad_Spring2018_Postdoc.pdf 2. Neuroscience & Education Research Assistant (to build and run a Brain-Mobile EEG lab in a school with Stanford Sch of Ed): http://brainlens.org/images/Ad_brainmobileRA.pdf 3. brainLENS Lab Research Assistant (for project management and data analysis): http://brainlens.org/images/Ad_Spring2018_FullTimeRA.pdf 4. Volunteer Research Assistants: http://brainlens.org/images/Ad_VolunteerRA.pdf For other available part-time/volunteer positions, see http://brainlens.org/involvement/employment. Please direct any questions to [email protected].

"The Twice Exceptional Movement: Supporting Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties" Scientific American article and edited book by Scott Barry ...Kaufman. Excited to have contributed to the book! https://blogs.scientificamerican.com//the-twice-exception/ https://www.amazon.com/Twice-Exceptional-Supp//ref=sr_1_3 See more

So humbled & honored that Fumiko Hoeft from our center is receiving the annual award from the Northern CA Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (NCBIDA) with Decoding Dyslexia CA's Kathy Feinberg Futterman. Thank you everyone for the amazing work we are all doing together to make it a better world for those with #dyslexia & learning difficulties https://norcal.dyslexiaida.org/events/

I'm honored to be giving the Keynote Address at the Dyslexia Training Institute's 2nd Annual Virtual Conference. April 23rd- May 4th, 2018 John Rodrigues, Autho...r of High School Dropout to Harvard will inspire you and your children to embrace dyslexic strengths, identify unique talents, and realize the many gifts that can be shared with the world. His message is life changing, and will uplift and encourage you and your children. RSVP by registering at: http://bit.ly/dyslexia2018

One of the 2 most read @DyslexiaIDA articles in 2017! "What Protective Factors Lead to #Resilience in Students with #Dyslexia?" Applies to all struggling learne...rs! Promote Social Emotional Learning! Power of #edneuro. Congrats to @stephanie_haft and Fumiko Hoeft! https://dyslexiaida.org/what-protective-factors-lead-to-re/ Claudia Koochek

Wonderful opportunity! TDF Dyslexia/LD Conference on 2/15/18 at UCLA: The Dyslexia Foundation (TDF) offers a conference for educators related to dyslexia and learning disabilities 2-3 times a year (at Harvard etc). It’s a wonderful opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest of dyslexia and learning disabilities in one day. If a district sends 5 teachers, registration is free! Please do consider attending. They are only offering 50 (5-10 per district) free registrations for public school teachers, so please apply soon! For more information, please contact Shelbey Roy at The Southport School ([email protected]). And let’s help bring it back to ucsf! Please share!