CACLD Program Report - 2007
Your dues and contributions enabled CACLD to present these programs last year.
- 37th Annual Fall Conference for Parents, Professionals and Adults with Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficits - 18 workshops, 22 speakers and a Keynote Session featuring The Michael Hartenbaum Memorial Lecture
- 7 Family Education Programs and 2 Workshops for Adults with LD/AD/HD
- 10 Seminars on Effective Advocacy Training
- A Conference on Educational Options for High School Students with LD/AD/HD
- 729 people attended these programs.
And your support also helped us to provide these services:
- Information, Referral, Consultations, Advocacy, a Research Library, a Bookstore and Community Education
- Personal, in-depth consultations for 323 families
- Our LD/AD/HD Helpline responded to 967 requests for information and referrals
- Donated books and tapes to libraries, literacy programs, Community Colleges and Family Centers
- Contributed materials for in-service training for mainstream teachers and other professionals
- Participated in Guidance Expo 2007 providing materials for hundreds of guidance counselors
- Published and distributed our highly acclaimed newsletters
- Provided scholarships to our conferences and workshops. No one is turned away!
- Helped schools develop resource libraries for staff and parents
- Represented you on state and local task forces dealing with RTI, Transition and Adult Issues
- Worked to preserve the right to special education
- Sent posters and other materials to every public library and every SPED Director in Connecticut and Westchester County
- Continued an outreach program to Child Guidance Clinics, Pre-Schools, Teacher Training Programs, SPED Parent Groups, Social Workers, Para-Professionals and School Principals
- Continued to offer an Adult Resource Directory to adults with LD/AD/HD and agency personnel
- Served as a resource for local media
CACLD is one of the most active and respected LD organizations in the country. Last year we were in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Greenwich, Norwalk, Trumbull, Westport, New Canaan and Stamford, CT, and White Plains, NY.
Overall, CACLD reached well over 15,000 individuals with membership mailings, one-to-one consultations, phone and mail information, and community outreach through speaking engagements, newsletters, information kits, posters, and our website. Our activities were covered in area newspapers as well as numerous national newsletters. In addition, CACLD maintains an ongoing public relations effort that results in newspaper and magazine articles, public service announcements and advertising to inform and educate the public about learning disabilities, dyslexia and attention deficits.
Quite an impressive list of accomplishments!
Your support will help us fulfill our mission and continue our outreach and community education programs and services to families and individuals and the professionals who work with them.
