NeuroNet Learning Certification Workshop

Join us in Lancaster, PA to become a Certified NeuroNet provider and offer StepUp to Learn's neuroscience-based learning enrichment programs to your clients.

March 14 -16, 2024 in the Silverball Retro Arcade Room at Clipper Magazine Stadium (Barnstormers Baseball), located at 650 North Prince Street Lancaster, PA, 17603.

Closest airports: Harrisburg, PA (MDT), Philadelphia, PA (PHL), and Baltimore (BWI).

Workshop Schedule 

Day 1. The Neuroscience of NeuroNet: Review of key concepts. Tools for Learning: 

• StepUp to Learn software Program PK, 0, 1 and 2

• How to: daily practice, weekly data, workbook pages

• Motivation: routines, puzzle badges, skip days

• Key movement exercises: how and why

• Modifications: the "challenge zone" how to make it easier or harder

Day 2. Research: Embedded learning, from pieces to patterns; Self-evaluation and motivation; Dyslexia. Tools for Learning: 

• 3 sequential tools for auditory processing and reading decoding

• Rhyme family decoding: 1-to-1 learning

• Letter family decoding: embedded decoding

• LRRL: listen, repeat, read, listen

• Syllable spelling

• Calendar work: formulation of language; representational drawing

Day 3. Research: Balancing reading decoding and reading comprehension. Tools for Learning:

• Walk and talk reading 

• Calendar Work: language of time and causality

• NeuroNet extras: Independent play shelf; I think I can; Who will be next?; Breathe and blow

Additional information: Lunch will be available for purchase from a lunch menu at the venue.

This workshop will include a 1-year license for access to all of the StepUp to Learn Classroom Enrichment software programs and assessments:

Early Learning Program: For children ages 3 ½ and up, addressing speech delay, balance, coordination, and whole-body movement patterns.

NeuroNet PreK: For children ages 4 and up, focusing on "watch and listen, then think and do" learning sequences, sustained attention, auditory memory, visualization, math readiness, alphabet knowledge, and handwriting readiness.

NeuroNet Program 0: For children ages 5 and up, targeting basic academic skills like reading decoding, math computation, subitizing, rhyming, and handwriting fluency.

NeuroNet Program 1: For children ages 6 and up, offering essential practice to develop fluency in math, reading, word retrieval, and handwriting through pattern completion and muscle memory.

NeuroNet Program 2: For children ages 7 and up who have completed NeuroNet Program 1. Program 2 builds on math, reading, vocabulary, and handwriting skills from earlier program levels. 

NeuroNet Certification Requirements

To become a Certified NeuroNet Provider, you must be a credentialed therapist or academic support professional, including audiologists, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, optometrists, and individuals with an M.Ed. Therapist's assistants can offer NeuroNet under the supervision of a certified NeuroNet Provider.

Learning objectives

Following this workshop, you will be able to:

• Develop neural networks linking balance, movement, hearing, and vision using the NeuroNet Software Programs.

• Customize NeuroNet exercises to meet the individual needs of the children you work with.

• Explain the neuroscience research supporting improvements in attention, memory, and learning.

• Apply for NeuroNet Certification.

• Earn AOTA-approved continuing education credits (CEUs) through NeuroNet Learning, an AOTA-Approved Provider.

Don't miss this opportunity to join us and make a significant impact on the lives of those you serve. Register today!

About the Presenter

Nancy W. Rowe, creator of the NeuroNet Programs, addresses learning differences through vestibular and auditory therapy procedures that develop temporal processing. She has an undergraduate degree in Speech Education from New York University and a graduate degree in Speech and Hearing Science from Washington University in St. Louis. Ms. Rowe is a member of the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA). She maintains a private practice in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Your Purchase Includes

• Five NeuroNet Software Programs: Early Learning, PreK, Program 0, Program 1, and Program 2
• Parent Intake Forms
• Evaluation Forms

Continuing Education

NeuroNet Learning is an AOTA Approved Provider (Provider #7805) of professional development. This workshop is offered at 2 CEUs, Intermediate, Foundational Knowledge, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA or indicate AOTA approval of a certification or other professional recognition.