Featured Speakers  John Abbondanza Dr.
Abbondanza is in private practice at Vision Care Specialists in Southboro with
a specialization in vision related learning problems and vision therapy. He graduated from the New England
College of Optometry, where he was appointed Adjunct Clinical Professor of
Optometry in 1991. He is board
certified in vision therapy and vision development by the College of optometry
in Vision Development and is a past President of the Massachusetts Society of
Optometrists. He lectures
extensively to optometrists, educators, occupational therapists, and other
groups on how Behavioral Optometry helps people in their daily lives.
 Dr. McChesney is
Executive Director of the Richards Institute of Education Through Music. With degrees in music,
music education, and post-doctoral studies in developmental neurobiology, his
teaching background is broadly based, including work with toddlers, elementary,
junior high, and high school children, physically handicapped, mentally
handicapped, hearing impaired populations, and the aged. He is an active speaker, clinician and adjudicator in choral
music education and developmental neuropyschology through music in
learning. He continues active classroom consulting and publishing related to children’s development and well-being through musical interaction and study in the United States and abroad. His recent interests
include the neurobiological implications of music study for all children,
especially those who are behaviorally at risk and who present with varying
degrees of attentional problems and functional illiteracy. His hobby continues
to be conducting honor choirs and camps internationally and at home.
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