The WSA’s professional advisors and other experts provide webinars regularly on topics related to Williams syndrome. Often held in a question and answer format, background information is provided along with answers to questions which are solicited prior to the webinar. 

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Learn more about the Empowering Family Futures: Families Like Ours workshops

KNoWS Webinar: Foundational Skills for Adulthood

Presented by Kayla Gearring and Erin Cunningham

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 8:00 PM ET

What skills will your child need as an adult, and how can you start building them today? Join Kayla Gearring and Erin Cunningham for a warm, hands-on session about building the everyday skills that lead to a full adult life. Kayla brings 13 years in the classroom and two decades with the WSA community. Erin is mom to Kurtis, 34, who now lives in his own home and has a lively circle of friends, including his trivia teammates at the local pub.

Using a simple Live, Purpose, and Play framework, Kayla and Erin will help you dream big about your child's future home, work, and fun while growing a network of people who support your child at every stage.

Families of children of every age are welcome.

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KNoWS Webinar: Back to School Top 10!

Dr. Robin Pegg, who leads our Knowledge Network, is one of the world’s foremost experts promoting strategies that help children with Williams syndrome thrive in the classroom. 

A new school year is here, and Dr. Pegg will help your family head into it with confidence.

Back to School (Elementary): The Top 10 Things to Keep In Mind  (9/15/2026)

Back to School (Middle & Senior High): The Top 10 Things to Keep In Mind (9/16/2026)

Education Resources from Dr. Robin Pegg

Xtramath - XtraMath is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides a supplemental math program for students in grades K-8. Our math fact fluency program helps students develop fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts and build the computational memory that enables greater success in higher-level mathematics.

UFLI - University of Florida Literacy Institute - UFLI Foundations, an explicit and systematic program that teaches students the foundational skills necessary for proficient reading. It follows a carefully developed scope and sequence designed to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and learn to apply each skill with automaticity and confidence. The program is designed to be used for core instruction in the primary grades or for intervention with struggling students in any grade.

Everyday Speech - Everyday Speech is a social skills curriculum with video modeling, games, and worksheets that help students build the skills they need to thrive. Materials come in no-prep sessions with step-by-step guidance for educators.

Bookshare - Bookshare® empowers people who cannot read traditional books to pursue education, employment, and social participation by making reading and learning materials accessible. Bookshare is the world’s largest collection of accessible ebooks.