Exciting new project under @silparacchini.bsky.social will look into possible links between people with SpLDs and mental wellbeing struggles. www.linkedin.com/posts/silvia...

Check out our first monthly webinar of the year with the wonderful Lynn Lovell! Learn all about #dyslexia, #Dyscalculia, and #mathsdifficulties with lots of practical suggestions for supporting at home or at school. dyscalculianetwork.com/event/unders...

📢 Calling UK mental health professionals working with neurodivergent young adults 📢 Please take part in our research on depression in neurodivergent young adults! It involves 1 individual interview and 2 focus groups (all online, £25/hour). Sign-up link: shorturl.at/r3HlO Reposts appreciated 🙏

Reflections on the new consensus definition of Dyslexia from @sldnetwork.bsky.social members led by @kmorsanyi.bsky.social In nutshell: Despite merits in recognising the spectrum of manifestations, it is not straightforward to translate it into practice onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our Uni of St Andrews Med School colleague Andrew O'Malley used AI to turn his research papers into a podcast, to see how it would turn out. It could be a useful approach for reluctant or time-limited readers, and for dyslexic people. Listen via link. tinyurl.com/yt4pjc83

Researchers of this #OpenAccess study review findings from the Cleveland Family Speech and Reading Study, a 25-year longitudinal study of speech sound disorders. https://on.asha.org/3LepoSS

Anyone know anyone who'd be willing? Always good to have contacts for future requirements, too.

@ukbiobank.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social @childrenofthe90s.bsky.social

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.” That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X) 🧪

Here's a snapshot of what SLDN/members have done and delivered since launch. Click for an overview of the events, papers, connections and contributions. We're also keen to hear how we could add value to the activities, projects or ideas of others in the coming year or so.

New paper out which captures the lived experience of Specific Learning Difficulties. UK focussed but likely to have commonalities across countries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #dyslexia #dyscalculia #dysgraphia @sldnetwork.bsky.social

Must be someone in our network in scope for this? Will ask around more widely, too.

TES has published an overview of conclusions from SLDN's cross-sectoral 'Research into practice' event, in the Scotland section. It links to @silparacchini.bsky.social's longer report on our webpage. tinyurl.com/5m7kffd9

Deserved 'horn toot' to SLDN's co-chair Prof Silvia Paracchini @silparacchini.bsky.social on her forthcoming inaugural lecture, which is open to the public:

Good feedback and interesting next steps from Claire Williams of Alexandra Park Research School, a speaker at our recent 'Translating research into practice' event:

SLDN has a couple of experts involved in the @patoss-dyslexia.bsky.social virtual conference tomorrow. Catch @silparacchini.bsky.social & @petetalksstuff.bsky.social online tomorrow.

Congrats to @cmanning.bsky.social & colleagues on their new paper that follows on from their talk at SLDN's launch in 2022. What are the research priorities for the dyslexia community in the UK and how do they align with previous research funding? Dyslexia, 31:e70004. doi.org/10.1002/dys.70004

HUGELY useful and insightful day 5 Mar with colleagues from all corners of the SLD and ed-tech sectors working on how to engage, connect, share and optimise what we're all working on. Let's keep these interactions going, build cohesion, and help shape policy.

A workshop on hacks that make it easier to access numbers in work. #neurodiversity #dyscalculia

For any SLDN bluesky newbies, this might spare you the manual operation we just did to locate and replicate X follows/followers to bsky. Found this post 24h too late!