Suzanne Carreker, Ph.D., is a Certified Academic Language Therapist and Qualified Instructor. She is Vice President of Research and Program Development at Neuhaus Education Center, a nonprofit organization in Houston, Texas, that has offered professional development in scientifically based reading methods to more than 60,000 teachers since its inception in 1980.

Suzanne, a past president of The Houston Branch of the IDA and current vice president of the National IDA Board, is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences and has authored a number of multisensory curricula, textbook chapters, and journal articles.

Suzanne consulted on and contributed to the Texas Teacher Reading Academies and was a State Master Trainer for the Kindergarten and First-Grade Texas Teacher Reading Academies. She collaborated with the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to develop an online course for teacher certification and served as a consultant to the Section of Neuropsychology, Wake Forest University.

William Van Cleave is in private practice as a teacher trainer and educational consultant. A nationally recognized speaker, he has presented across the country on teaching strategies for students with language-based learning difficulties. Since 1995, William has conducted presentations and workshops at a number of public and private schools and conferences around the country.

David Berg, creator of the Making Math Real Multisensory Structured Methods and founder and director of the Making Math Real Institute, is an author, educational therapist, and instructor in Making Math Real for both University of California Extensions at Berkeley and Santa Cruz. He is also an international lecturer, consultant and trainer for universities, conferences, public and private schools, learning disabilities organizations and SELPAs. He is an educator of 33 years teaching all levels from kindergarten through post-graduate. Over the past 33 years he has worked with thousands of educators and students of all ages.

Breakout Sessions:

• "Read Me Differently: Understanding Learning Disabilities in Family Life" – Sarah Entine, M.S.W.
  
• "Working Memory: The Critical Link to Learning" – Michele Berg, Ph.D.
  
• "Word Smarts: Morphology Development & Advanced Decoding" – William Van Cleave
  
• "Intensive Writing! Strategies That Work"
  – William Van Cleave - Followed by a live tutoring
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