Reengaging Disengaged Readers Webinar

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Reengaging Disengaged Readers: An Innovative Digital Reading Intervention to Support Dyslexic, Struggling, and Multilingual Learners – Adolescents through Adults

Sarah Blodgett & Lisa Bigney Webinar

Date: January 11

Time: 10 AM Central Time

Free to attend and earn a certificate of attendance! $10.00 registration fee for 1.0 CE.

Join Noah Text founder Sarah K. Blodgett and co-director of Rhode Island Tutorial & Educational Services Lisa Bigney for a second online workshop. They will briefly reintroduce Noah Text® and then go on to describe how it has been incorporated into a supplementary online intervention found to be highly effective for struggling students reading between grade 3-8 and adults scoring between 450-550 on TABE Reading assessments. The multicomponent intervention was created in partnership with the nonprofit organization, New Century Education Foundation, researchers from Michigan State University, and Noah Text. This session has three goals: (1) to describe an easy-to use and innovative digitally mediated reading intervention that was specifically designed for adolescent and adult struggling readers, (2) to examine the results of studies with middle school dyslexic students and incarcerated adults who used the reading intervention, and (3) to discuss how it can be implemented in your school affordably or at home for free. 

Sarah Blodgett

Founder & CEO, Noah Text, LLC

Sarah is a skilled researcher and writer who developed Noah Text® after working with her own child who struggled with reading. Her journey started in 2003 and was heavily influenced by Dr. Miriam Cherkes-Julkowski, an expert in learning and literacy. The Noah Text® patented method has received ongoing recognition from structured literacy specialists and education professionals since its release in 2016 and was selected as an Innovation Showcase Panelist by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), Education Business Forum, in 2017. Since 2019, Sarah has partnered with New Century Education Foundation and Michigan State University researching and developing specialized Noah Text® lessons for New Century’s Online Intelligent Tutoring System. Sarah is continuing to expand Noah Text® technology tools and publications through partnership development. Her fervent mission is to make Noah Text® available in ALL print and digital media for ALL readers. For further information, please visit www.noahtext.com. 

Lisa Bigney

Co-Director, RI Tutorial & Educational Services

Lisa is a Certified Dyslexia Interventionist and Co-Director of Rhode Island Tutorial & Educational Services (RITES) serving students and adults with learning disabilities, specializing in multi-sensory methods. Her specialties include Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Disorder, Asperger’s, and Orton-Gillingham Instruction. Lisa founded RITES in 1997, a non-profit organization that serves Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. RITES’ employs more than 40 certified and highly qualified, experienced teachers, using research-based approaches for students of all ages. Prior to founding RITES, Lisa was a Special Education Teacher at the Hamilton School at Wheeler. Lisa earned her M.Ed. at Harvard University in Curriculum and Learning Environments, M.Ed. at Lesley College in Computers in Education, and B.S. in Elementary and Special Education at Boston University.