Neuhaus Education Center

Online Certification Program for Dyslexia Specialists (OCPDS) Preview Session
2025-04-16 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-12 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-07 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-02-07 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-02-05 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-15 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-10 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Virtual
Online Certification Program for Dyslexia Specialists (OCPDS) Preview Session
OCPDS is accredited by the International Dyslexia Association as an IDA Accredited Plus Program. OCPDS maintains the high standards of this organization and keeps the Knowledge and Practice Standards (KPS) at the forefront of teacher preparation.

Basic Language Skills: Book 3 (Virtual)
2025-07-01 09:00 - 15:00, 2025-05-06 09:00 - 15:00, 2025-03-06 09:00 - 15:00, 2025-03-04 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
In Basic Language Skills – Book 3, participants learn advanced structural analysis concepts, Greek and Latin morphemes, and additional strategies for comprehension and composition.

Dyslexia 201
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
This session offers participants the opportunity to actively engage in structured literacy lessons for students with dyslexia and gain a better understanding of dyslexia therapy and their child’s experience within it.

Dyslexia 101
2025-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
Gain insight into the challenges individuals face when learning to read, including identifying those who may have dyslexia, and explore the necessary components of reading instruction crucial to their learning process.

Virtual Monthly Information Session
2025-05-17 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-14 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-04-26 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-04-09 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-22 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-05 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-08-13 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) and 2 more dates
This repeating virtual presentation includes information on reading challenges, including dyslexia, multisensory, research-based instruction, and the Texas dyslexia legislation. Presentation also includes resources available at Neuhaus and within the Houston-area community.
* To register, please click the Register Now button below and input your information. You will receive an email confirmation of your registration.

Virtual College Panel
2025-01-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
For more than 20 years, Neuhaus Education Center, The Briarwood School, and the Houston Branch of The International Dyslexia Association (HBIDA) have hosted College Panel, an annual event where high school students have the opportunity to hear directly from current college students about how to successfully navigate college with learning differences. These students will share information about their colleges, programs available at their schools, and their strategies for success.

This panel is an inspiration for freshmen and sophomores and a necessity for juniors and seniors in high school who are planning to attend college.

Neuhaus Academy: Beyond the Page (Virtual)
2025-11-19 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
1) Preview online lessons for adolescent and adult learners that introduce multisyllabic words found in literature and textbooks;
2) Learn activities that increase learners’ world and cultural knowledge to enrich critical and analytical reading; and
3) Engage in project-based learning.
Neuhaus Academy: Beyond the Page introduces the online lessons of the Neuhaus Academy Learning Platform as well as offline activities and project-based learning. Use of this online and offline instruction increases knowledge of the orthographic and morphological patterns in multisyllabic words, aiding pronunciation and comprehension, as well as increasing world and cultural knowledge, enriching critical and analytical reading.

Written Composition (AM-Virtual)
2025-02-27 08:30 - 12:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
Students often struggle with written composition because they are unsure about how to formulate ideas and translate them onto paper. Knowledge of the structures of different paragraphs aids students in formulating and translating ideas.In Written Composition Fundamentals, participants learn:

1) how to teach the structures of descriptive, narrative, process, compare and contrast, and persuasive paragraphs;2) how to help students enhance the quality of their paragraphs; and3) how to teach students to edit and revise paragraphs.

Participants also engage in collaborative activities that extend their learning and can be presented to their students.

Multisensory Grammar (Virtual)
2025-11-18 08:30 - 12:00, 2025-09-17 08:30 - 12:00, 2025-02-27 12:30 - 16:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
In Multisensory Grammar, participants learn:

1) activities that make the abstract concept of grammar concrete;
2) strategies for increasing students’ sentence complexity when writing; and
3) to use of parts of speech in the construction and revision of written paragraphs.

Participants also engage in collaborative activities that extend their learning and can be presented to their students.

Language Enrichment for Older Students (Virtual - Day 5)
2025-03-05 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
Language Enrichment for Older Students is a Tier II intervention for upper elementary and middle school students who struggle with foundational literacy skills. The curriculum is based on the principles behind the science of reading and includes the components of structured literacy.

Language Enrichment for Older Students coursework includes instruction in:

1) the structure of the English language for reading and spelling;
2) developing vocabulary and listening and reading comprehension skills;
3) research that supports structured literacy instruction; and
4) implementation, through practice, of a 30-minute lesson.
This curriculum moves students quickly past basic sound-symbol correspondences to instruction in reading concepts such as affixes, roots, and combining forms, syllable division, and reading patterns to help accurately read longer words. The lesson plan includes lessons from Developing Metacognitive Skills, a curriculum focused on building comprehension skills for students in grades 4-8.
