Professional Development
Professional Development is one of the two primary goals of the IECA Foundation:
- Provide direct support for student programs, in the form of grants to deserving educational organizations that help students discover and experience positive educational opportunities.
- Provide indirect assistance for students, through our support of professional development programs for consultants, counselors and admission professionals, to help them guide students to appropriate educational choices.
In support of our professional development goals, we have sponsored dozens of workshops and programs designed to improve the delivery of consulting services and to increase consultant knowledge on a wide range of relevant issues. Recent professional development activities have included:
- A workshop on Asperger's Syndrome and related disorders, conduced by Dr. Fred Volkmar, director of the Yale University Child Study Center
- A college planning phonathon for high school students in St. Louis
- A seminar on "New Theories of Cognitive Functioning"
- A talk by Dr. Kenneth Gray, author of Getting Real: Helping Teens Find Their Future, on the potential disconnect between many teens' aspirations and the economic market realities they will face in the "real world"
- A workshop on obsessive-compulsive (OCD) disorders led by Dr. Michael Jenike, Associate Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
- A panel discussion on "Students with Learning Disabilities and the College Match" focused on helping consultants understand the range of learning differences, as well as the range of accommodations, services and programs offered
- Workshops on learning disabled students, Executive Functioning issues and other relevant issues
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