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Hi everyone,
John Brindle here, I’m Learning Design Manager at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk.
I have varied interests in Neurodiversity, particularly from a learning design and pedagogical viewpoint. I am keen to ensure that all the resources developed by the team and I are fully accessible, logical, and easy to understand.
I am also researching how third space professionals make sense of inclusive practice for my PhD at Lancaster University!
My questions is a top tips kind of thing – what one thing would you do to curriculum design to ensure it supported neurodiverse students? For me it would be to attach purpose to each task we are asking student to undertake!
John
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Hi John,
I would like to see slides/documents provided beforehand, plus recordings of each lecture/session, so that students can access them again at a later date if they wish. This should be done as standard and the onus should not be put on the student to ask for this/provide their own recording equipment (which is often supplied by DSA and would put those who have not disclosed or are not aware they are neurodivergent, or the general student population, who could also benefit from these things, on a more even playing field).
Karen Clark (Learning Development Advisor – Arts University Plymouth)
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Call for Interest – Autism and LIS Literature Review
Hello,
Autistic researchers affiliated with the Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network (NLISN) in the UK and the Disability and Wellness Research Collaborative (DWRC) at Oklahoma State University would like to invite interested individuals to join a collaborative research team for a two-year, research project, entitled:
Perceptions and discourses of autism in Library and Information Science literature: a critical interpretive synthesis
Research question
To critically interpret and develop theory on how autism is discursively constructed within LIS literature.
Objectives
To critically interpret representations of autism and autistic individuals within the literature.
To critically interpret assumptions and norms about autism and autistic individuals within the literature.
To critically interpret autistic agency within the literature.
To critically interpret alignment of the literature to medical and social models of disability.
For full details please see the Call for Interest, Protocol, and if you are interested please complete the Call for Interest Form.
Many thanks,
Maria
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Hello all!
My name is Will I work for an assistive technology company called CareScribe. We build dictation software and note-taking software to help people access the world and level the playing field across things like the workplace and education (where people are often able to access our tools through things like the DSA or ATW).
I am neurodiverse myself and part of my role at work is to try and create resources that are genuinely useful for people like neurodiverse students so I’m hoping by being a member here I can join the discussion and get a better understanding of how to do that effectively! We recently created a nice guide to neurodiversity in the workplace which is great but now I am keen to make sure our next resource focuses on how to help students.
Will
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Call for participants: Research project on neurodivergent academics’ disclosure
Hi all, please see the call for participants and all details below.
‘Disclosure Dances’ in higher education: how Neurodivergent academics navigate disclosure in university.
Can you help?
I am looking for research participants for a small study into disclosure in HE.
Very briefly, the study seeks to understand academic staff perspectives regarding disclosure within the HE sector. Participants must have been working as an academic at a university in England for at least 12 months and be diagnosed or self-diagnosed with one or more of the following: Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, or Developmental Coordination Disorder. The study has been granted ethical approval by The Middlesex Psychology Department’s Ethics Committee.
Taking part would mean being interviewed by me via Teams at a mutually convenient time. The interviews will take place between June and August and should not take longer than 30-45 minutes.
If you would like to take part in the interview, please contact me using this email: Neurodiverse_Academics@protonmail.com.
I have attached the Participant Information Sheet, but feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
Thank you so much for your time.
Aleksandra Podsiadlik
Dr Aleksandra Podsiadlik
BA, MA, PG Cert in Teaching Adult Dyslexic /SpLD Students in HE /FE
Advance HE Fellow
Specialist Study Skills Tutor
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