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Understanding Parent Blame The Learning Disability and Autism Research Group invites you to a hybrid seminar with Professor Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello

Please come to our next seminar, online or in person. All welcome. 10th December 12-1pm 'Understanding Parent Blame' with Prof Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello. @learningmet.bsky.social @charhar.bsky.social @itsadele.bsky.social @suecaton.bsky.social

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Please share! The @digitallifeline.bsky.social project is looking for family carers, supporters, and professionals to take part in a research workshop about their experiences of supporting people with learning disabilities who received free digital devices during the COVID-19 pandemic. #AcademicSky

Are you a #FamilyCarer or professional of an adult with a #LearningDisability in England? Did they receive a free device during the COVID-19 pandemic? Join our online research workshop to share your experiences:

#AcademicSky #AutRes #LearningDisabilities #DigitalInclusion

Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, online. @krysiawally.bsky.social, Bernice Hardie and @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social will share research and action for inclusion in faith communities and beyond. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky

I'm excited to be chairing an online symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability on 8th Oct 12-2, as part of Manchester Metropolitan's Learning Disabilities and Autism Research Group seminar series. Speakers and topics in the next post... Details and sign-up link at tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d 🧵

Good luck to all our 2025 Staff Award nominees! Keep an eye on our feeds as we’ll be revealing the winners later today! 🤩🙌

Digital Lifeline - Downs Syndrome Association Researchers would like to hear from people with learning disabilities as part of an assessment of the government's Digital Lifeline Fund.

Thank you so much to the #DownsSyndromeAssociation for sharing our call for research participants.

Did you support someone with a learning disability with a free digital device they received during the pandemic?

Contact us to join one of our online workshops and share your experience:

Great idea - thank you!

Do you know any organisations who supported people with learning disabilities with digital devices during the pandemic? We are looking to find some more for our research. Any help much appreciated

Did someone you work with receive a free tablet during the #COVID-19 pandemic? We want to hear about their experiences through our @digitallifeline.bsky.social accessible online survey. They could win £100 for taking part!

#SelfAdvocacy #LearningDisabilities #AutRes #AcademicSky #DigitalInclusion

Resources - Learning Disability and Autism Research Group People with learning disabilities, erasure and social murder This resource explains more about Professor Sara Ryan’s book, ‘Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Soc...

Professor Sara Ryan's new book 'Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder' is out today. There's a Plain English summary on our website: learningmet.mmu.ac.uk/resources/

There’s still time for people with #LearningDisabilities to take part in our survey!

Contact us for more information.

#DigitalInclusion #SelfAdvocacy #Accessibility #Inclusion #AcademicSky

On Friday, we had a great first meeting with a new oversight group - people with learning disabilities, autistic people & family carers. They will be giving feedback on our team's research. We've been calling them the Critical Friends group, but watch this space - they're working on a better name!

Three Years on From “Stay at Home”: Perspectives of People With Intellectual Disabilities About the Ongoing Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic Background People with intellectual disabilities were disproportionately negatively affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there has been limited research about the perceived longer-term impact....

"The Government just don't even have a clue about what the pandemic has done to people like me, with an [intellectual] disability."

Findings from research on ongoing impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic for people with learning disabilities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Francesca Ribenfors from @learningmet.bsky.social talking about #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth led by @suecaton.bsky.social

#TCC2025

Please share!

Did your organisation support people with #LearningDisabilities to get set up with free tablets through the #DigitalLifelineFund in 2021? We want to hear from you!

#LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #AutRes #Survey #SocialResearch #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLifeline

The conversation cards can give some ideas for talking to doctors, nurses, and pharmacists about mental health medications.

Read the conversation cards: medmentalhealth.net#page-9

#MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek

People with #LearningDisabilities are more likely to take mental health medications. The @medmentalhealth.bsky.social team have made lots of tools to help people with learning disabilities talk about their #MentalHealth medications.

🧰: medmentalhealth.net#information-...

#LearningDisabilityWeek

I had an amazing visit to Warrington Speak Up this morning to see the premiere of their film 'Do you see me?' as part of Learning Disability Awareness Week. There was over 80 people there from Warrington organisations - amazing job! Hoping they’ll make the wonderful & uplifting film shareable soon

A Multi-Informant Approach to Exploring Connections, Disruptions, and the Multidimensional Elements of Transition to Adulthood for People with Intellectual Disabilities | Scandinavian Journal of Disab...

'[...] transition is more than just a process or an event; it’s an intricate body of parts that connect and affect each other'

Dr @francescaribenfors.bsky.social considers the impacts of transition on young people, mothers, and professionals.

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#LearningDisabilityWeek

It's #LearningDisabilityWeek! We'll be sharing more about our research, and some of the resources we've created to support people with learning disabilities.

Our final seminar speaker in our Activism series is Shaun Picken. Shaun is an advocate & activist at My Life My Choice @mylifemychoice1.bsky.social . Shaun wasn’t into politics when he got involved but that soon changed! He joined Power Up - research & advocacy on issues including benefit cuts. 🧵

How can we make web design and content more accessible for everyone?

#GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #GAAD

Read more: ukhomeoffice.github.io/accessibilit...

Today, Dr @suecaton.bsky.social will be speaking with the STOMP steering group at the South Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disabilities & Autism Provider Collaborative to share information and resources from the Medications and My Mental Health project.

#AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch

Join us on Wednesday!

Shaun Picken’s Activism and Advocacy Journey at My Life My Choice (@mylifemychoice1.bsky.social )

When: Wednesday, 14th May 2025 @ 12-1pm
Where: Online

Find out more and get the link below:

#AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #AcademicSky

Absolutely brilliant talk by @dawnc05.bsky.social today at @learningmet.bsky.social. Not easy to listen to the awful experiences she shares, but so in awe of the Dawn’s commitment to challenge and protest.

It’s tomorrow! Join us:

We are very excited to have our very own Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social discuss Stolen Lives at our next seminar this Wednesday (9th April @ 12-1pm)

Join us in-person or online:

What a fantastic project to have been part of. Please check out the coproduced resources for ppl with LD and share widely @jbeebee.bsky.social @gwenmoulster.bsky.social @davidh7.bsky.social @daveweigel.bsky.social