PPD/SP-Conference: Invitational Conference on Learning Disabilities and the Teaching of Science and Mathematics

美国科学促进会（AAAS）将召开一次会议，为K-12有学习障碍的学生（LD）的科学和数学教学的研究和未来活动制定议程。会议将邀请三组专家参加：一组是曾成功教过有学习障碍的大学预科和专上学生科学和数学的教师；神经学家;还有认知科学家。神经科学家将在学习和意识认知的背景下解释人类大脑的物理工作，大脑如何绕过功能失调的通路，以及帮助我们理解大脑的新技术。认知科学家将解释人们一般是如何学习的，以及LD患者如何以不同的方式学习。教师们将讨论衡量各种学习限制的测试，以及他们在向有这些限制的K-12学生教授科学和数学时使用的成功策略。将指导与会者制定未来的议程。会议的主要目标是：1)确定阻碍K-12有学习障碍的学生充分参与科学、数学、工程和技术（SMET）教育机会的障碍；2)为研究和未来活动制定议程，以消除障碍；3)将会议参与者的集体专业知识传播给NSF和AAAS感兴趣的工作人员、彼此之间以及LD教育界的其他领导人。次要目标包括：1)通过培养跨学科方法来解决潜在问题，为确保有学习障碍的学生平等获得科学和数学学习的机会做出贡献；2)成立一个核心专家小组，以解决残疾学生未来较长一段时间的教育需要。

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will convene a conference to set an agenda for research and future activities for teaching science and mathematics to K-12 students with learning disabilities (LD). Conference participants will be invited from three groups of experts: teachers who have successfully taught science and mathematics to precollege and post-secondary students with LD; neuroscientists; and cognitive scientists. Neuroscientists will explain the physical workings of the human brain in the context of learning and conscious knowing, how the brain bypasses dysfunctional pathways, and new technologies that help us understand the brain. Cognitive scientists will explain how people generally learn and how people with LD learn differently. Teachers will discuss the tests that measure various learning limitations and the successful strategies they use in teaching science and mathematics to K-12 students with those limitations. Participants will be directed to develop the agenda for the future. The primary goals of the conference are: 1) identification of barriers that prevent K-12 students with learning disabilities from fully participating in science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) educational opportunities; 2) the development of an agenda for research and future activities to remove the barriers; 3) the dissemination of the collective expertise of conference participants to interested staff at NSF and AAAS, to each other, and to other leaders in the LD education community. Secondary goals include: 1) a contribution to efforts to assure equal access to science and mathematics learning for students with learning disabilities by fostering a cross-disciplinary approach to the underlying problems; 2) creation of a core group of experts to address the educational needs of students with LD over a long period of time in the future.