LearnFast Events  

LearnFast hosts annual conferences, provides professional training workshops, presents at numerous learning events both in Australia, New Zealand and overseas and has expert speakers available for your next event.

Past LearnFast Events

April 2011 - Dr Martha Burns, renowned Speech Pathologist, Neuroscientist and Researcher returned to New Zealand discussing Advances in Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties - Brain Science Solutions in Education Today. 

Dr Martha Burns is a renowned expert in the field of neur­os­cience and its applic­a­tion to learn­ing atten­tion dis­orders, includ­ing Dyslexia, Autism, Auditory Processing Disorders, ADHD and other lan­guage disorders. Dr. Martha Burns has been a prac­ti­cing speech lan­guage patho­lo­gist in the Chicago area for 35 years. She serves on the Faculty of Northwestern University, depart­ment of com­mu­nic­a­tion sci­ences and dis­orders, and on the med­ical staff of Evanston-Northwestern Hospital, both in Evanston, Illinois. Dr Martha Burns has received hon­ours from Northwestern University, Evanston Hospital Corporation, the American Speech Language Hearing Foundation and St. Xavier University. She is the author of sev­eral books on brain func­tion, aphasia and cog­ni­tion and has also pub­lished numer­ous art­icles on lan­guage devel­op­ment, lan­guage dis­orders, aud­it­ory pro­cessing dis­orders, and adult neur­o­lo­gical dis­orders in pro­fes­sional journals. She has authored over 100 journal articles on the neuroscience of language and communication and has written three books on language difficulties associated with neurological disorders. Doody’s Rating Service selec­ted her book on the Right Hemisphere as one of the best health sci­ences books of 1997.

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Building Brains for Learning - "It's All in the Connections"

LearnFast New Zealand, provider of Fast ForWord, hosted a seminar in Auckland on Friday 12 March 2010, at which renowned international language and learning expert Dr Martha Burns provided insights into how we can rewire the brain to optimtise cognitive abilities and learning.

Read about Dr Martha Burns.

Contact us for a recording of Dr Burns's presentation.