DLD call for student's research presentations

The Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children announced its annual opportunity for students studying issues related to learning disabilities to present posters featuring their research. It’s a great opportunity for people who are early in their careers to communicate about their research efforts with an audience of others who share their interests.

The poster session is usually held in conjunction with DLD’s reception at the CEC Convention. This year’s CEC will be held in Baltimore (MD, US) from 12-15 March 2025; the DLD reception has usually been held on Thursday of “CEC week,” but I’m not privy to the planning for this year, so I encourage folks to check the DLD Web site, TeachingLD.org, for updated information.

I didn’t find an announcement about the student poster opportunity on TeachingLD.org. I’m just going to show a clipping of the electronic call I received and link to a third-party location for it. (If one has questions contact Miriam Ortiz at exdir@TeachingLD.org.)

Screen grab of DLD’s mailer calling for submission of poster proposals. I have linked the image to the URL at the word “HERE” in the text of the image.

When she was student representative to the DLD board circa 2005, Catherine Aurentz Griffith, whom readers may recognize from her appearance in a Friday Photos post, created first of the student poster sessions. So the session in 2025 will be the 20th anniversary of them. I estimate that between 100-150 scholars have presented posters over those 20 years—perhaps some of them are reading this very account (please leave a comment, if you’re one of them)!

Here’s a photo of Cathy (she’s now at Clemson University) and our pal, Kevin Oh (he’s now at University of San Francisco) at a different DLD reception in 2006.

Kevin Oh and Cathy Griffith at the DLD fall conference in San Francisco, 2006. Ill-focused photo by John Wills Lloyd, 2006, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

And here’s a photo of one of the DLD receptions. This one was in the spring of 2006 in Salt Lake City. In the photo one can see some of the people attending the reception and a few student posters.

DLD reception of 2006 in Salt Lake City. Note the student posters in the background. Can you name any people whom you see in the photo? I hope they’re not irritated with me for publishing the image. Photo by John Wills Lloyd, 2006, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

In addition to presenting one’s work, the poster session provides a great opportunity to meet and talk with lots of people.

I do not know whether presenters are required to be members of DLD, but I encourage folks to join regardless of whether it’s necessary for submitting a proposal for a poster. TeachingLD has a page about the benefits of membership and how to become a member.