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Letter from Dr. Valerie Maxwell:

The Foundation for Learning Development (FLD) invites you, as a professional involved in cognitive training, to its first conference, January 19, 2007 (9am to 4pm) at the Ayres Hotel, in Manhattan Beach, Ca. This conference will be dedicated to mapping cognitive-training strategies. The FLD was established as a non-profit, to develop and coordinate the efforts and resources necessary to measure and improve the skills all children need to learn effectively; most especially those children with learning and attentional disabilities. The FLD acts as a clearinghouse of information by which programs and learning tools are created to assess and train comprehensive intelligence development.

Our Board passionately wants to promote a global and greater understanding of cutting-edge technology available to non-learners, poor or different learners. There exists no listing or consistent reference for which technologies are currently being used effectively. Board member, Dr. Susan Smalley, UCLA geneticist, will kick off the conference as she discusses the cracking of the genetic code for learning disorders in the very near future. We want to examine how auditory and visual processing training, intelligence and mindfulness training, neurofeedback and other strategies help learning.

We are asking you to help us map these technologies in a pioneering think tank meeting of professionals, by invitation only. The intention of this one- day meeting is to bring together those professionals who will interact and create a dialogue about new and effective learning therapies. Suggested research directions and the compilation of a data base of participants engaged in cognitive training will be the primary expected results. This historic conference will address the need to coordinate communication and research of new learning therapies and their technologies. This has never been done in this emerging field before. Participants will be expected to share their knowledge while simultaneously suggesting directions for future research and coordination of various cognitive training programming.

We intend to ask questions like: What are the latest educational, training, assessment and learning technologies? When medication fails or is insufficient, how do we train the brain? For whom does complementary treatment work the best? What does the research support?