Newsletter & Coming Events

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NEWSLETTER

OTHER NEWS AND COMING EVENTS

BOARD MEETINGS are held every third monday of every month, at the LDAA - EC office from 7 - 9 p.m.

SECOND ANUAL CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL Wine Tasting & Silent Auction - Join us for a decadent evening of chocolate desserts, sweets, & wine tasting by William Bincoletto on February 10, 2007 at 6:30 pm. For more information contact Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta Provincial Office at 448-0360 OR the Edmonton Chapter at 466-1011.

If you would like to donate to our silent auction please contact our Edmonton office at 466-1011.

PARENT ADVANTAGE WORKSHOP - Start off the New Year by becoming partners in the learning process. Come and learn strategies to help your child learn the smart way. Together, parents and children will learn a variety of strategies that have been proven successful in helping children become active and in dependant learners at home and at school. Participants will learn how to get higher test scores, spell words, more easily and improve writing skills. Help your child in grades 3 through 7 excel at: reading, writing, spelling, mathematics, exam preparations, and special projects.

January 27th, 2007, from 2:00 to 4:30pm. At Castle Downs YMCA, 11510-153 Ave, Edmonton. For more information contact our office at 466-1011.

Presentations - Edmonton and Area on Children with Disabilities:

Ethics & Disability

Speaker: Dr. Nora Groce, Medical Anthropologist and Director Yale/WHO Collaborating Centre, Division of Global Health, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University. Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  Heritage Medical Research Centre Room 207, U of A campus. This event is part of the distinguished visitor presentations. Event URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/BIOETHICS/Nora%20Groce.pdf

The Rights of Children With Disabilities: Canada And Around The World

Speaker: Dr. Nora Groce, Medical Anthropologist and Director Yale/WHO Collaborating Centre, Division of Global Health, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University Thursday, February 15, 2007, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM  Telus Centre, U of A. Campus. This event is part of the distinguished visitor presentations. Event URL:http://www.ualberta.ca/BIOETHICS/Nora%20Groce.pdf

Dr. Groce is a scholar of anthropology, and health, disability and ethics studies. She heads the Disability and Bioethics Advisory Group at Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and was recently the convener for Thematic Group on Disability for the United Nations Secretary General’s Study of Violence Against Children.

Contact Information for the Distinguished Visitor Presentations is Edna Liley, edna.liley@ualberta.ca, 492-6676

Videoconference Presentation: Raising Accountable Young People

In addition, Alberta Children’s Services is hosting its second videoconference presentation on Tuesday, January 30th from 6:30 to 8:30. The session is Raising Accountable Young People, with best selling author, consultant and leadership architect, David Irvine. To register, go to www.parentlinkalberta.ca or call 1-866-714-5437. Registration is required before January 24th.

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