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Since 1993, NHPIN's purpose has been to provide specific trainings to teachers that is both pertinent and affordable. It is understood that, while parents with means are able to provide their children with supplementary skill instruction when school does not meet their children's needs, nearly every child depends on a public school system program to meet their educational requirements. Furthermore, it has been our experience that teachers who receive training and work develop their teaching skills.
In 1993 a group of teachers and clinicians in the Seacoast recognized the need for a greater emphasis on phonemic awareness in the teaching of reading. They founded NHPIN (New Hampshire Phonology and Imagery Network) to help teachers include phonemic awareness skills in their reading instruction. NHPIN was incorporated in 1994. The organization is a New Hampshire not-for-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status.
Since 1994 NHPIN has sponsored or conducted 12 five- and six-day-long trainings in the LiPS program as well as several related to comprehension skills.
In 1999 NHPIN provided an intensive program in basic written language skill acquisition to students as a part of a summer program to train teachers and clinicians to use the LiPS program.
Starting in 2006, Precision Teaching has been included in LiPS training to provide a 'fluency' component not included in the LiPS program. Participants have learned how to conduct practice of basic skills that have been learned so that students perform the skills at a rate which ensures that they are retained and are available when the basic skill is a necessary part of a more complex skill which is being learned.
In 1995 and 2002, NHPIN sponsored workshops by Joseph K. Torgesen, Ph.D. who has conducted research for thirty years with children who have learning problems. For the past twenty years he has been part of the effort supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to learn more about the nature of reading disablities and the ways to prevent and remediate reading problems in children. These programs were provided in conjuction with the Exeter School District and the New Hampshire Branch of the International Dyslexia Association.
In 2004 and 2005, NHPIN co-sponsored, with the Exeter School District, informational workshops conducted by Meir BenHur, Ph.D. who explained Instrumental Enrichment cognitive skills program, its curriculum, and its efficacy in developing and/or strengthening the cognitive skills necessary for academic learning and achievement.
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