Meeting the Instructional Needs of Students with Learning Disabilities (LD II): Math

Meeting the Instructional Needs of Students with Learning Disabilities (LD II): Math

Special Ed License | This program is completed

- Online, VT - United States

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Graduate Credits (3)

1/5/2022-5/11/2022

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$1,695.00

This course is designed to help participants identify students who are learning disabled and at-risk. Participants will gain critical assessment skills necessary to evaluate students’ development and strengths and weaknesses in math and use this information to design appropriate instruction and supports for these students.

This course is fully online, with some synchronous virtual meetings. Click View Schedule above for dates and times.
In addition, there will be small group focus meetings 5x throughout the semester for 2 hours (students will come up with an agreed upon time together as a group).

  • Upon successful completion of this course, students will earn 3 graduate credits from Castleton State University.
LaBombard, Loralyn

Loralyn LaBombard (formally LeBlanc) currently teaches LD 1 and LD 2 for the VT-HEC. She lives in Concord, NH where she works as an intensive needs special educator for Bow Memorial School. She runs a functional skills program for students with Autism. Prior to her move to NH, she worked at a variety of Vermont elementary schools as a special educator. She also worked for Vermont Reads and the Stern Center for Language and Learning as a literacy consultant and professional development provider in literacy. Loralyn received her Ed.D. from the University of Vermont in Ed Leadership and Policy Studies in 2009 and her MA in Special Education in 2000 from Assumption College in Worcester, MA.

Gregoire, Amy

Amy Gregoire graduated from Boston College in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education. For the first two years of her career she taught second grade in rural North Carolina. The following 19 years she spent teaching at the elementary level, primarily in second and third grade in Bow, NH. In 2012 Amy received her masters in math education from Lesley University. She has three teaching certificates, elementary math specialist, secondary math, and early childhood education. Amy currently works as the math specialist for Bow Memorial School in Bow, NH. Amy works with students, providing both tier 2 and tier 3 math instruction within their RTI program. In addition, Amy co-teaches with teachers and provides on site professional development. Amy presently serves on the board of the New Hampshire Teachers of Mathematics as their elementary representative.