{"id":6211,"date":"2023-07-03T09:29:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T08:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2023-07-07T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T08:50:41","slug":"sldn-goes-public-at-rse-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/sldn-goes-public-at-rse-event\/","title":{"rendered":"SLDN goes public at RSE event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/learning-difficulties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Specific Learning Difficulties Network (SLDN)<\/a>, co-founded by reader in Medicine and head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/neurogenetics.st-andrews.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neurogenetics Research Group<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/people\/sp58\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Silvia Paracchini,<\/a> held its first public event at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rse.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)<\/a> on 16 June. &#8220;Specific Learning Difficulties Network: Developments in the science of dyscalculia&#8221; drew a healthy audience despite blazing sun outside and its Friday tea-time scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>Forty members of the public and other stakeholders attended <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.ucl.ac.uk\/iris\/browse\/profile?upi=BLBUT84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Brian Butterworth\u2019s<\/a> talk on dyscalculia, its incidence and its impact, and the related panel discussion with two young ambassadors from <a href=\"https:\/\/dyslexiascotland.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dyslexia Scotland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Education Scotland\u2019s<\/a> Senior Education Officer for Inclusion, Wellbeing and Equality; Frances Foreman. Both were informative and well received.<\/p>\n<p>In tandem with the public meeting, a focus group for teachers explored education resources for identifying dyslexia and yielded feedback on potential tools to aid teachers which will be used in follow-up focus groups.<\/p>\n<p>The RSE has produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/rse.org.uk\/resources\/resource\/video\/specific-learning-difficulties-dyscalculia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> of the evening&#8217;s content for those unable to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The School is delighted by the success of the event and looks forward to watching the Network continue to develop and discover new opportunities for collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Specific Learning Difficulties Network (SLDN), co-founded by reader in Medicine and head of the Neurogenetics Research Group Dr Silvia Paracchini, held its first public event at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) on 16 June. &#8220;Specific Learning Difficulties Network: Developments in the science of dyscalculia&#8221; drew a healthy audience despite blazing sun outside and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1280,10],"tags":[223,397,789,1260],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmed","category-inclusion","category-news","tag-cmed","tag-dr-silvia-paracchini","tag-neurogenetics-group","tag-specific-learning-difficulties-network"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}