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News from My Tutor and Me
Special Education plus IBM's Contest for High School Students
September 2009
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Greetings!
Welcome to the September 2009 Issue of My Tutor and Me's Community Newsletter.
Every month we seek to inspire, inform, and provide tips and advice on education. Now that the school year is back in swing, we hope your children are enjoying their new teachers and subjects. If you have a question for our tutors, or some suggestion for this newsletter, we welcome your feed back! Please feel free to email us.
- Fred & Shannon Converse
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Upcoming Conference Addressing Special Needs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CACLD 2009 Annual State Conference:
"Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficits Through the Lifespan"
October 31, 2009, 8:00am to 4:00pm, Marriott Hotel, Stamford, CT
Workshops, speakers, bookstore and exhibitors for parents, adult students, and educators!
For more information, view the conference flyer for details about topics that will be covered. The keynote speaker will be Rick Lavoie, author of How Difficult Can this Be?, It's So Much Work to be Your Friend, and The Motivation Breakthrough. For more than thirty years, his ground-breaking insights have helped parents, teachers, coaches and caretakers of children with learning disabilities. We recommend and provide reviews of some of his work, see below.
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Recommendations from My Tutor and Me:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Local Life Skills Coach:
Dynamic Life Skills of Fairfield County, CT, provides life skills coaching to children and young people of all abilities. They offer teaching and enhancement of social skills, self-esteem, attitude, decision-making skills, study/organizational skills, manners, social etiquette and values. Dynamic Life Skills is owned and operated by Regina A. Cornelio, M.S. Ed. in Fairfield County, CT.
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Recommendations from My Tutor and Me:
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 How Difficult Can this Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop: Understanding Learning Disabilities (DVD) by Richard Lavoie (DVD, 2004). My Tutor and Me believes this DVD should be required viewing for parents, educators or any care takers of children with learning disabilities. By providing a series of exercises that allow "normal" people to feel what children with a variety of different learning disabilities go through when trying to learn, he provides an effective tool that effectively instructs the viewer on communicating with empathy.
September Book Picks:
 The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child by Richard Lavoie (Hardcover or Paperback). This must-read book takes parents and educators step-by-step to what motivates different personality types of children, and the best ways to encourage them. We feel it's a valuable read not just for those with learning disabled children, but for all children, especially those with behavioral issues.
 It's So Much Work to be Your Friend: Helping Children with LD Find Social Success. This Richard Lavoie book is the first of its kind that discusses how parents, care takers and teachers can help learning disabled children enjoy social success and make friends.
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Contest for High School Computer Science students:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  IBM's "Master the Mainframe Contest" 2009
IBM is currently rolling out its fifth annual Master the Mainframe Contest this fall semester, with more than $27,000 in prizes up for grabs. The major purpose of the contest is to introduce students who may not have had much experience in programming to this area of the computer field. IBM designed the contest to be NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. Registration is now open for students at universities, colleges and high schools across the U.S. and Canada. The contest begins on Monday, October 5. If you know a high-school student who might be interested, visit here for more information.
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Exciting News from My Tutor and Me
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Although we usually don't like to toot our own horn in this newsletter, we have some exciting news we'd like to share. This month, My Tutor and Me expanded to include the Greater Boston Area.
Launching with more than 30 tutors with the goal to have more than 100 by mid-2010, we will be providing our signature private, in-home tutoring services to Pre-K through graduate school students in areas of Suffolk, Worcester, Norfolk and Essex counties. If you have family or friends in Massachusetts that you feel would be interested in learning about My Tutor and Me, please feel free to let them know or forward this newsletter. For more information, please read our announcement.
We are also happy to introduce a new member of My Tutor and Me...Diana Santulli joined us as office manager in September and looks forward to providing you with great customer service. Thank you again for your business, and we look forward to hearing from you soon!
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Sign up now and receive $25 off your next purchase of a 12-Hour block. Call us at (203) 655-6826 and mention this ad! Don't wait - schedules are already filling up!
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Offer Expires: 10/30/2009
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Shannon D.
Converse, Ed. M.
Frederick R.
Converse
My Tutor and Me,
LLC
P.O. Box
2382
Darien, CT
06820
Ph 203-655-MTAM
(6826)
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267-295-8378
www.mytutorandme.com
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