Catalog of Selected Seminar Offerings

From luncheon and classroom speakers to workshops and private tutoring cKc Consultants can help.

• Irlen Syndrome: An Overview
• Using the Internet and Technology to Level the Playing Field
• Children and the Internet
• Is your website development team aware of accessibility issues?
• Basics for Building a Web Site
• Basic Web Skills taught in Basic English
• Other Topics

Irlen Syndrome: An Overview

Irlen Syndrome, or Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome (SSS), is a perceptual problem that can affect academic and work performance, concentration and behavior. Helen Irlen's Method for dealing with it is internationally acclaimed, and has been discussed in professional journals, covered on TV programs such as 60 minutes, ABC World News With Peter Jennings NBC News and by other news media in the US and around the world.

The program is personalized for the audience. In general, it covers

• the definition of the syndrome
• common symptoms
• its relationship to learning disabilities, migraines and other issues
• accommodations that can be made by teachers, employers, parents and the individual
• an explanation of the Irlen Method of colored overlays and tinted lens.

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Using the Internet and Technology to Level the Playing Field

Look at ways to use the Internet to overcome barriers and facilitate professional growth.

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Children and the Internet

Learn a bit about the background of the web. Look at what is there now. Discuss some of the problems regulating cyberspace and what you can do to protect

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Is your website development team aware of accessibility issues?

• Are you ignoring a large portion of your market?
• Is there a way to use the issues to increase visits to your site?
• Can visitors to your site navigate through it even though they are visually or physically challenged?
• Are you insuring that visitors to your site know what is going on in your graphics?
• Are you breaking the law without knowing it?
• Is your website creation software using deprecated code or causing you to lose part of your target market?

Basics for Building a Web Site

Learn the skills necessary to publish a simple website using a word processor. Be able to add pictures from scanners, clipart or graphics packages. Find sites that will post your pages on search engines for free.

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Basic Web Skills taught in Basic English

Familiarize yourself with the web's structure in a non-intimidating atmosphere. Become familiar with the technical terms related to, and movement through the Internet and World Wide Web.

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Other Topics

Is there something in which you are interested that is not listed? Do you need in-service training?

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