{"id":8890,"date":"2009-10-21T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2009-10-21T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:49:00","slug":"event-suzanne-kamata-to-present-educational-workshop-for-families-of-children-with-learning-differences-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/21\/event-suzanne-kamata-to-present-educational-workshop-for-families-of-children-with-learning-differences-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Suzanne Kamata to present Educational Workshop for Families of Children with Learning Differences (Tokyo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author Suzanne Kamata<\/a> (Tokushima-ken, 1988-90)<\/strong> who also serves as the Publicity Assistant for the Society of Children\u2019s Book Writers and Illustrators<\/a>, shared the following:<\/em><\/p>\n

TELL Exceptional Parenting Program: Educational Workshop for Families of Children with Learning Differences\/Diverse Needs by Tokyo English Life Child and Family Services<\/strong><\/p>\n

We welcome you to our Writing workshop:<\/strong> Parenting kids with special needs<\/span> presented by Suzanne Kamata<\/strong><\/a>, writer, poet, and mother.<\/p>\n

Suzanne will give a presentation on Reading and Writing Our Special Children<\/strong>. She will discuss the importance of writing about children with special needs and share examples of literature current and past about parenting children with special needs<\/span>. She will also conduct brief writing exercises, which may be used in journaling, or creative writing<\/span> for pleasure or publication.<\/p>\n

Friday, November 13, 2009<\/span>
\nRegistration<\/strong>: 2:30pm to 2:45pm<\/span>; Workshop<\/strong>: 2:45pm to 4:15pm<\/span>; Information sharing<\/strong>: 4:15pm to 5:00pm<\/span>
\nAdmission<\/strong>: Donations accepted
\nRSVP<\/strong> to tellparentgroup@hotmail.com<\/span>
\nLocation<\/strong>: Minami Aoyama Conference Room next to TELL office
\nAddress<\/strong>: 5-4-22<\/span> Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062 Phone: 03-3498-0231<\/p>\n

Suzanne Kamata<\/strong><\/a> was born and raised in Grand Haven, Michigan<\/span>. After graduating from the University of South Carolina<\/span> with a degree in English, she came to Japan<\/span> in 1988 on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program<\/strong>.\u00a0 During her second year in Japan, she met the man who would become her husband and has lived in Tokushima Prefecture<\/span> ever since. She now lives with her husband and ten-year old twins in Aizumi and teaches part-time at Naruto Educational University.<\/p>\n

Suzanne is also the author of a novel, Losing Kei<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (Leapfrog Press, 2008), editor of several anthologies, among them Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs<\/strong> (Beacon Press<\/span>, 2008) and Call Me Okaasan:\u00a0 Adventures in Multicultural Mothering<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2009), and fiction editor of literarymama.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you would like to have more information on the Exceptional Parenting Program or would like to attend the workshops, please contact Birgit Zorb-Serizawa at tellparentgroup@hotmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author Suzanne Kamata (Tokushima-ken, 1988-90) who also serves as the Publicity Assistant for the Society of Children\u2019s Book Writers and Illustrators, shared the following: TELL Exceptional Parenting Program: Educational Workshop for Families of Children with Learning Differences\/Diverse Needs by Tokyo English Life Child and Family Services We welcome you to our Writing workshop: Parenting kids […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,53,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-networking","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t