Workshops

Learning How To Learn Workshops and Seminars By: Joyanne Cobb, MA, CRC, CRP

Opening Doors of Possibilities

• Identifying Challenges and Overcoming Obstacles:
  This interactive workshop allows students to identify their challenges, explore compensations and accommodations, and help them overcome obstacles. This workshop also enables students to role-play interactions and situations they may have with a professor, teacher or employer and provides a lesson in self-advocacy. Written materials are provided.

• Employment and Learning Disabilities:
  This workshop focuses on disclosing learning disabilities in the workplace, talking to employers about accommodations, and identifying the most useful types of accommodations. Ms. Cobb also discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as how it does and does not protect a disabled person in the workplace. She also addresses social issues such as how someone with a non-visible disability deals with coworkers. This workshop can be tailored for youth in transition and for adults in a specific profession or occupation.

• Motivational Speeches and Keynote Addresses:
  Ms. Cobb provides an array of motivational addresses for all audiences. She speaks from personal experience and from the experiences of other disabled persons whom she has interviewed over the years.Ý She has been the keynote speaker at many schools, conferences, and professional organizations. Ms. Cobbís dynamic presentation skills have inspired both disabled and non-disabled audiences with a message that they can succeed.

• Learning How to Learn:
  This workshop, based on Ms. Cobbís book, Learning How To Learn: Getting Into and Surviving College When You Have a Learning Disability, covers a process learning disabled students can use to begin their journey through higher education and survive it. Ms. Cobb highlights topics such as choosing a college or university, getting documentation to receive accommodations, and dealing with the challenges and rewards of college life, Ms. Cobb illustrates with her own personal stories: her failures as well as her successes. This workshop is a must for any student thinking of post-secondary education.

Ms. Cobb will sign books after any of the above sessions.

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