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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On Sat 5 Sept, at the RSE's Curious festival, hear how Dyslexia Scotland’s national survey of dyslexic adults logged mental health challenges people with SpLDs face. Hear how they face a higher risk of mental illness. New work. New insights. Come along or join the live stream: lnkd.in/gQDkX54P

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

SLDN Co-Chair Prof Michelle Luciano will be speaking at the The Dyslexia Guild Online conference on 1 July:

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Dyscalculia Network @dyscalculianetwork.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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...

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Dr Giorgia Michelini @giorgiamichelini.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

📢 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 🙏

Research opportunity!

Are you a mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults aged 18-25?

Are you interested in research on depression in neurodivergent young adults?

To find out more and apply, follow this link https://shorturl.at/r3HlO

Individuals working with patients from minority ethnic backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply.

Email e.hayashibara@qmul.ac.uk
if you have any questions.

This study has been approved by the Queen Mary Ethics of Research Committee
Ref: QME25. 0713

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Silvia Paracchini @silparacchini.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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/...

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Toward an Improved Understanding of Dyslexia: Reflections on a New Consensus Definition and Its Implications

Inconsistencies in the definition and diagnosis of dyslexia continue to impede research, assessment, and intervention. This paper, authored by members of the UK Specific Learning Difficulties Network...

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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

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AI Safety in MedEd, Discussed by AI

An experiment in which Google’s NotebookLM turns my own research papers into a podcast-style conversation about the promises and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in medical education.

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

“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) 🧪

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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.

An infographic showing the impacts and activities of the Specific Learning Difficulties Network to date, since launch 2 years ago.

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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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:

poster showing details of Silvia Paracchini's inaugural lecture time, date, venu

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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.

Educational technology demo showing application linking lego brick building and music making

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Pete Jarrett @petetalksstuff.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

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

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Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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!

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