LearnFast Event Archive
LearnFast has hosted numerous conferences around
brain-based learning featuring international key note speakers.
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2009 - Dr Norman Doidge Brain Seminars
Melbourne, May 27
World renowned author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr Norman Doidge shared the profound implications of our new understanding about how the brain learns. His insights and stories altered the way we look at human possibility and human nature.
2008 - Rewiring the Brain Seminar Series
Sydney, Canberra, Auckland
Key Note Speaker: Dr Ian Creese
Dr Ian Creese is the Founder/Co-Director of the Centre for Molecular and Behavioural Neuroscience at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA where he is currently the Board of Governors Professor of Neuroscience.
He has published 138 research articles, 80 invited chapters and edited four books. His research is widely recognised and he was listed as a "Citation Superstar" by the Science Citation Index with over 5,000 citations to his research.
Dr Creese presented on Improving Language & Literacy is a Matter of Time and Neuroplasticity.
Rewiring the Brain Seminar
2007 - Conference on Advances in Learning & Literacy Intervention
Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland
Key Note Speaker: Dr Martha Burns
Dr. Martha S. Burns has been a practicing speech language pathologist in the Chicago area for 35 years. She serves on the Faculty of Northwestern University, department of communication sciences and disorders, and on the medical staff of Evanston-Northwestern Hospital, both in Evanston, Illinois.
Dr. Burns has received honors from Northwestern University, Evanston Hospital Corporation, the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation and St. Xavier University. Doody’s Rating Service selected her book on Right Hemisphere Dysfunction published through Aspen Press as one of the best health sciences books of 1997. In addition to that book, Dr. Burns is the author of a book on aphasia and the test Burns Brief Inventory of Communication and Cognition published by The Psychological Corporation.
She has also published numerous articles on language development, language disorders, auditory processing disorders, and adult neurological disorders in professional journals. Dr. Burns is currently serving as senior clinical specialist and Director of Professional Relations at Scientific Learning Corporation.
Dr Burns presented on 'The Brain Science of Language, Reading and Learning' and 'Training the Brain for Academic Gain: Neuroscience Based
Interventions for Learning Impairment'.
Conference on Advances in Learning & Literacy Intervention
2006 - Australian Brain-Based Learning Conference
Sydney, Melbourne
Key Note Speaker: Devon Barnes
Devon is the Founder & Clinical Director of LearnFast and is also the Clinical Director of The Lindfield Speech Pathology & Learning Centre which she established in 1990. She has almost 40 years experience working with children and adults with speech, language, literacy and learning problems.
Leading a team of 10 speech pathologists and other professionals including child psychologists, occupational therapists, pediatricians, and orthoptists, she has a depth of experience working with, consulting and treating diagnosed conditions such as dyslexia, delayed speech & language, language impairment, reading disabilities and written language problems, autism spectrum disorders, Asperger syndrome, motor speech disorders, auditory processing disorders. She regularly travels overseas seeking out latest research and treatment strategies.
Devon is a regular invited speaker at Australian and international conferences, including Chicago - International Dyslexia Society Conference 1999, Singapore - First Asian Brain Based Learning Conference 2005,Perth - Australian Speech Pathology Conference.
Devon presented on ‘Identifying and treating children with Language and Reading Deficits’ and The Missing Link between Reading & Comprehension - Why My Student Can Read but Not Understand'.
Australian Brain-Based Learning Conference