The Research Spotlight for August shines on work by @samanthaflynn.bsky.social , @nikitahayden.bsky.social , @nikmanktelow.bsky.social and team. Using digital Talking Mats they gathered the views of children using an online reading intervention. Use the QR code to read more

Last chance to sign up to this event tomorrow – looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Please do join our online event next on 25th June: 'Siblings, Disability and Care: Anthropological and Co-Created Perspectives'. With @pblock8.bsky.social Helen Ries Dima Kassem @nikitahayden.bsky.social @tomjryan99.bsky.social Programme here: tinyurl.com/mr2ejrt7 Sign up here: tinyurl.com/mra86v38

We’ve just published a paper in Tizard Learning Disability Review about engaging children with developmental disabilities in online data collection procedures: www.emerald.com/insight/cont... @nikitahayden.bsky.social @nikmanktelow.bsky.social

Our next Sibling Studies Network colloquium is this Thursday, kicking off at 2pm GMT. We have an exciting lineup of talks from across the humanities and the social sciences (see images for agenda). Tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/sibli...

Our Talking Mats paper, published earlier this year, is currently free to access. Download it here – @talkingmats.bsky.social @sallyboa.bsky.social @sarahhayward.bsky.social @loiscameron.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/...

Congrats to all involved in a book that seems to do something different. Not only as it's so collaborative but because it looks at issues starved of airtime, like supporting autistic people's siblings. And makes a distinction between autism and mental health; #autism isn't a #mentalhealth problem.

Lovely to have received a copy of this terrific book. It was great to contribute a chapter with Clare from @sibs-uk.bsky.social. Thanks to the editors @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social Russell Hurn and Damian Milton

'Sibling relationships are, in most cases, the longest relationship people will have in their lives'. For anyone keen on a whole family approach to care, on groups overlooked in research and how a sibling/family carer experience shapes us (positively and negatively). #LearningDisability #siblings

An important change of focus in research with family members. IMO as suggested family outcomes are mediated by service and social barriers, not the individual characteristics of the family member with ID

New paper🚨 “I Would Not Change [My] Sibling for the World, Maybe the World Can Change for My Sibling”: The Experiences of Adult Siblings of People With Developmental Disabilities. Authors - Liz Moran-Morbey, Chloe Blackwell, Tom Ryan, and myself onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...