You’re invited to attend the fifth annual Southside Support for Special Needs Families annual Symposium on September 27, 2019 at New Hope Baptist Church North Campus in Fayetteville, GA from 8:30am to 2:30pm! Each year, our organization focuses on a different topic related to parenting and servicing the special needs community. This year’s Southside Symposium focuses on invisible disabilities in the classroom and beyond. We will address the strengths and difficulties associated with learning disabilities like dyslexia and dyscalculia, anxiety disorders, and high functioning autism. We have several exciting guests as well as break out sessions and a vendor expo for you to enjoy. Purchase tickets at www.southsidesymposium.org. To apply for a free ticket due to financial hardship, click here. Learn more about some of our guests below!
David Flink is a social movement leader on the front lines of the emergent learning rights movement. He imagines a world where one day all learners will be recognized and free to succeed. Diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD at a young age, David struggled through much of his pre-college education, feeling hopeless and left out of education. David founded Eye to Eye in 1998 while a student at Brown University. The only national mentoring movement run for and by people with LD/ADHD, Eye to Eye empowers young people with LD/ADHD by giving them a mentor in school who shares that experience. The organization also sends mentors as diplomats across the country to share their LD/ADHD stories and strategies for success and supports them as “Alumn’Eye” as they make the transition from college to the workplace and beyond. David holds a master’s degree in disability studies in education from Columbia University and bachelor’s degrees with honors in education and psychology from Brown University. His first book, Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities, was published by HarperCollins. In it, he sets out to enlarge our understanding of learning and offers new, powerful strategies for teaching, parenting, and supporting the 20 percent of students with learning disabilities.
Dr. Alfonso Martinez, Ph.D., ABPP graduated with his doctorate in clinical psychology from Purdue University in 1997. He completed his internship at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He then completed two years of neuropsychology fellowship at the University of Miami Medical Center, one year with adults in the Neurology Department and the other year with children in the Department of Pediatrics. He practiced neuropsychology for eight years in southwest Florida, and moved to Georgia in 2007. Dr. Martinez is one of just a handful of board-certified (ABPP-CN) neuropsychologists in the state.
Dr. Suvrat Bhargave, MD is a renowned and respected educator, speaker, and board-certified psychiatrist, specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry. With residency training and a specialty fellowship from Duke University, Dr. Bhargave has worked in hospital, community health, and private practice settings. As the author of A Moment of Insight – Universal Lessons Learned from a Psychiatrist’s Couch, he is highly sought after to lecture locally and nationally on a broad range of topics related to personal growth, effective parenting, relationship satisfaction, and mental health conditions.
