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

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.

07.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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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

02.06.2025 08:14 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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

30.05.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

24.04.2025 11:21 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

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:

04.04.2025 10:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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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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.

04.04.2025 10:22 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

What Are the Research Priorities for the Dyslexia Community in the United Kingdom and How Do They Align With Previous Research Funding? Targeting research towards areas that matter to dyslexic people and their families is essential for improving dyslexic people's lives. However, we do not know what the dyslexia community's research p...

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

03.04.2025 10:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Workshop group interacting

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

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.

27.03.2025 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

01.01.2025 11:17 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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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