A20 - Wednesday, January 30, 1985 - North Shore News

Positive strategies for teaching disabled

PARENTS of children with
learning disabilities are in-
vited to register for a six-
week series of evening
workshops organized and
conducted by the Interna-
tional Foundation of
Learning.

The series is titled Positive
Action Strategies for Parents
of Children with Learning
Disabilities.

The foundation said each
workshop will run from 6:30
te 9:30 p.m. on six con-
secutive Mondays starting

February 18 at the founda-
tion’s offices, #336-5740
Cambie Street. (41st and
Cambie), Vancouver.

The workshop leader will
be Geraldine Schwartz,
Ph.D., a neuropsychoiogist
and teacher. The workshops
will deal with advances in the
field of Jearning disabilities,
brain function and new
rehabilitation procedures,
understanding and use of
psycho-educational assess-
ment, behavior manage-
ment and methods and

use with
learning

materials for
children with
disabilities.

Registration fee is $100 per
individual or $125 per family.
For further information and
registration, call the founda-
tion office at 321-6848.

The foundation also will
conduct a workshop series
for parents of gifted and
talented children and
adolescents. This will start
with a double-barrelled
presentation — three hours
April 12 and all day April 13

Host homes needed

ASSE INTERNATIONAL
‘Student Exchange Programs
(ASSE) is seeking local
families to serve as hosts for
15 - Scandinavian, German,
Swiss, Britiss and Dutch high
school students who are part

of the ASSE exchange visitor |

program, says Cindy Boyce,
Canadian Director for ASSE.

The non-profit ASSE is af-
filiated: with the Swedish and
Finnish Ministries of
Education.

The students, . 16 and 17
years. old, are fluent in
English and . are. ‘carefully
selected for the program bas-
eden their high school per-
formance, good character,
and interest in living with.a
Canadian host family.

All students are covered by
comprehensive medical and
liability insurance and have
adequate money for personal
needs - supplied) by _ their

parents..The host family fur--

nishes. meals and housing:
- The ASSE program offers
families the opportunity to

share Canadian culture and

Hours: Mon.-Fri.
Saturday
Sunday

and squash.

rates available.

high

8:45am - 9: 30pm*
8:45am - 4:15pm*
10:15am - 9:30pm*
*Hours could change as

demands dictate.

Booking courts: With ID. card
you Can reserve in person or by
telephone. Equipment rentals
available in both racquetbail

Lessons: For Juniors 9-12 years
Students 13-16 years
Adults 17 years and up
Private, semi-private and group

educational experiences with
a European young person,
and at the same time, to learn
about another culture and
language.

Boyce indicated that a
volunteer Area Represen-
tative, provided by ASSE,
will contact the host family
and the guest student on a
regular basis to assure that
everything i is going smoothly.

ASSE is also seeking local
school students in-
terested in participating on

HIGHLANDS United
Church will welcoine their
new minister Rev. Don
Robertson this Sunday, Feb.
3. The induction service for
him will be at 7:30 p.m. in the
sanctuary. The public is in-
vited to share in this service
and the reception that
follows. :

Rev. Robertson and his
wife Sandy come to North

7:05 AM Club: Courts can be made available to interested players in
both racquetball and squash on a monthly contract basis only. Please
phone 984-4181 for furiher details.

Delbrook

Community Centre

guethall
squash —

Fees: $4.00 per person for each 45
‘min. garne with a minimum of

$8.00 per court. $3.00

mandatory I'D. card per year.

600 West Gueens Rd., N.V.

the ASSE Eurepean Program
for an academic year of six
week summer holiday in
Scandinavia, Germany,
Switzerland, or Great
Britain.

Families and students in-
terested in participating for
the 1985/86 school year
should contact ASSE's local
Area Representative: Joan
Gibbs, 4208 Evergreen Ave.,
West Vancouver, BC.
V7V 1HI, or call 922-7773.

New minister

Vancouver from Kamloops
where Don has been minister
at First United Church for 10
years. Prior to that he was
minister .at South Arm
United Church in Richmond,
for six years. He has held a
variety of National and Con-
ference offices for the United
Church of Canada, the most
recent being B.C. Conference
President in 1982-83.

984-4181

to April 30. Further informa-

from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. f
tion will be announced later.

— by workshop leader Dr.
each Tuesday from April 16

Stephanie Dudek of the
University of Monireal, a
past president of the
American Psychological
Asscciation, Division of

Creativity and the Arts. Dr.
Dudek will address the topic
“mobilizing creativity’.

The remainder of this four-
part workshop will

occur

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