Smoke Signals
June 1992
Page 4
Health and Education.
NANITCH SAHALLIE
Indian Youth Residential Treatment Center
Keizer, Oregon
Employee News:
New staff:
Charlotte Pitt Counselor Technician
Mary Thomas Counselor Technician
Susan Klein moved from part-time to
full time Counselor Technician.
Susan AuCoin Visits Treatment
'Center:
Oregon Congressman Les AuCoin's
wife, Susan, and daughter Stacy toured
Nanitch Sahallie on April 28, 1991
Mrs. AuCoin was very interested
in the Tribe's dedication in helping
Native Americans afflicted with the
disease of chemical dependency and
stated that she will pass on what she
learned to Congressman Les AuCoin.
summer school
This summer, beginning July 21, 1992,'
the Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde Education Department will hold
a three day summer school program for
all enrolled members from kindergarten
through fifth grade. The program hours
will be from 9:00 a.m. to 12 Noon, at the
Tribal Community Center. A gradua
tion ceremony for participants and a
potluck will be held Friday, July 24th
beginning at 10 a.m.
On Wednesday, July 29th, the gradu
ates will be taken on a field trip to the
new Oregon Coast Aquarium in New
port. Several classes are planned for the
summer school, including craft classes
on mask and shield making. Flyers with
more information on the program will
be forthcoming. If you have further
questions, contact the Education
Department at 879-5211.
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Nanitch Receives Donations:
Nanitch Sahallie received a donation
of 30 bedspreads, 50 flat sheets and 10
pillows from Best Western, Sunnyside
Inn of Clackamas, Oregon! The
donation was promoted by Ms. Althea
Fouse in appreciation. Ms. Fouse
permits us to say that family
member's changed life style, health
and family life since treatment at
Nanitch made them both very grate
ful. There are more linen items than
Nanitch Sahallie can use at this time
and we have Sunnyside Inn's permis
sion to pass these on to the Grand
Ronde assistance programs.
See you next month!
The Staff at Nanitch Sahallie
GRADUATES
The Tribal Education Program
would like to recognize those
tribal members who are gradu
ating from high school and
middle school (8th grade) this
year. Please submit the follow
ing so we may recognize your
achievement.
-Name
-Any honors you have received
-Activities you have participated
in such as (sports, newsletter,
drama club, etc.)
-A picture of yourself
-The school from which you are
graduating
Please mail them to:
Attn: Shawn Hostler
Education Program
9615 Grand Ronde Rd
Grand Ronde, OR 97347
STUDY FINDS MOST
A large study of Connecticut schoolchil
dren has found that dyslexia, a reading
problem in children, is not an unalter
able disability, as psychologists, educa
tors and parents had assumed.
Instead, the study found, most of the
children who were considered dyslexic
in the first grade no longer were dyslexic
a few years later.
Dyslexia experts said they expected the
findings to make a fundamental change,
in the way dyslexia is viewed by re
searchers and the way it is diagnosed.
They said the study showed that a
diagnosis of dyslexia in kindergarten was
not necessarily a prognosis of doom.
"It's a good sign for those families, a
good sign for those kids," said David
Gray, a psychologist and dyslexia expert
at the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development "Even for
kids who remain in the dyslexia group, it
gives hope that they may get out of it."
Dyslexia is defined by the World
Federation of Neurology as a "difficulty
in learning to read despite conventional
instruction, adequate intelligence and
sociocultural opportunity."
Researchers have found that children
with dyslexia have trouble breaking
Congratulations
Tribal member Jeff Davidson is
graduating from Yamhill-Carlton
Union High School this year. He plans
to attend college and study Wildlife
Management.
While in high school, Jeff received
the 1990-91 Blazer Scholastic Improve
ment Segment award in Biology. He
also received two varsity letters in
football and an Honorable Mention
A special thank you to everyone
provided food and services for our family at Arnold's funeral.
We appreciate your kindness and sympathy.
Sincerely,
Marge Holmes and
the Holmes family
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OUTGROW DYSLEXIA
words into their constituent sounds and
that they benefit from tutoring that
focuses on this skill
The problem affects an estimated 10
percent of American children and has
long been assumed to have a biological
basis.
But the investigators who made the
latest study were surprised to find that
many children, particularly those on the
boundaries of the dyslexia group, moved
in and out of it The nine-year study,
which followed 414 children who began
kindergarten in 1983, showed that most
children who were dyslexic in the first
grade were not in later grades.
Dr. Sally E. Shaywitz, a pediatrician at
the Yale University School of Medicine
who directed the study said the results
showed that dyslexia is like high blood
pressure or obesity: The cutoff points
between normal and abnormal are
arbitrary, the severity of the disorder
varies continuously and children move in
and out of the abnormal group.
By Gina Kolata, from the Oregonian.
to Jeff Davidson
with a G.P A of 3.167.
Jeff likes to go hunting, fishing, and
downhill ski.
He is interested in the field of
Wildlife Management because he has
always enjoyed nature and he would
like to pick a field that would allow
him to help the tribe once he has
finished college.
who sent cards, flowers and