
Connect with Area Professionals
Our members include educators, therapists, other professionals and parents who care for Arkansans with disabilities. Members may attend our monthly UPHOLD meetings, serve on our scholarship committee and schedule one of our learning disability simulation workshops for their organizations, as well as receive our quarterly newsletters, connect with other professionals via our online membership directory and find other Arkansas service providers from our (coming soon!) online resource database. Additional professional development activities are being planned for 2012.
The annual LDAA conference, which will be hosted in Little Rock in September 2012, brings administrators, educators, special educators, reading specialists, academic therapists, speech-language pathologists and parents together to learn the latest treatment and teaching strategies for children with learning disabilities. The conference offers professional development hours and insight from local professionals and regional or national speakers.
Research shows that 8 to 10 percent of American children under 18 years of age have some type of learning disability, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.