| Monday, March 12 & Tuesday March 13, 2012 |
| Perri E. Klass MD Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics, Director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and National Medical Director, Reach Out and Read, Author & Journalist Dr. Klass’ fields of research include medicine and ethics, infectious disease, pediatrics and literacy. She frequently lectures on medicine and writing. As the Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national literacy program, Dr. Klass has trained physicians around the country on how to integrate books and the benefits of reading aloud into pediatric care. Dr. Klass is widely published. Her medical journalism has appeared in The New York Times Science Section, The New York Times Magazine, The New England Journal of Medicine, Esquire, Parenting, and Vogue. Her books of essays include A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student (Plume, 1994), Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician’s Training (Random House, 1992) and the bestselling novel, Other Women’s Children. | |
| Kate Garnett Ed.D. Professor, Special Education/Learning Disabilities and Chair, Department of Special Education, Member, Advisory Council, Everyone Reading Dr. Garnett presents extensively on math disabilities, vocabulary building, multiple aspects of reading disabilities, organization skills and classroom practices for students with LD. For more than 25 years she has taught special educators in Hunter’s graduate program in learning disabilities, a program she created. It features the HC Learning Lab, offering teachers a laboratory to develop, test and refine their skills. Dr. Garnett has authored Fact Fluency Foundations Guide (Scholastic, 2007). She is the author of dozens of articles, chapters and monographs on a wide range of LD-related topics and the widely distributed monograph, Thinking about Inclusion and Learning Disabilities: A Teacher’s Guide (CEC, 1996). | |
