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MoDI Lab @modilab-surrey.bsky.social · 3d

🚶First up, what is Dyspraxia/DCD? 🚶

Check out this infographic designed by our lab earlier this year to learn more! What fact surprised you the most?

See below or read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/10hQM...

#Dyspraxia/DCD #Research #DyspraxiaAwarenessWeek

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · Oct 9

It's Dyspraxia Awareness Week!

Please share this information video we commissioned from dyspraxic animator Charlotte O'Neill, explaining a bit about dyspraxia (aka developmental coordination disorder). The video is suitable for school-aged kids, so share widely.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pamE...

Dyspraxia!

YouTube video by The DCD Project

www.youtube.com

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Jul 11

Nearly one in 20 UK children have DCD, also known as dyspraxia, but most wait years for a diagnosis.

Dyspraxia: why children with developmental coordination disorder in the UK are still being failed

Nearly one in 20 UK children have DCD, also known as dyspraxia, but most wait years for a diagnosis.

tcnv.link

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Jul 13

DCD-UK was excellent as always! Such a great community of researchers, practitioners, and those with lived experience!

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Jul 8

Highlight reel from @ispgr.bsky.social 👇🏻
Had such a great time sharing our research and catching up with these awesome people!

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 Post-Doctoral Researcher Required 🚨
12-month position using EEG to explore the cortical control of balance recovery in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder. Advert below! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Post-doctoral Research Associate - (8366) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 Post-Doctoral Researcher Required 🚨
12-month position using EEG to explore the cortical control of balance recovery in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder. Advert below! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Post-doctoral Research Associate - (8366) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk

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Marie Martel @mariefmartel.bsky.social · Jun 5

🧠 Understanding #Dyspraxia: Insights for Employers & Educators
📍 Brunel University London
🗓 8 July | 3:30–6:30 PM
🎟️ Free event – register: shorturl.at/0RqJT

Join us for research insights, personal stories & the premiere of Dys is Me 🎬

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MoDI Lab @modilab-surrey.bsky.social · Jun 5

Do you have #DCD and want to share your insights?
Do you work with people with DCD and want to be more #inclusive?
Are you an #educator?

Join us 👇👇👇

Marie Martel @mariefmartel.bsky.social · Jun 5

🧠 Understanding #Dyspraxia: Insights for Employers & Educators
📍 Brunel University London
🗓 8 July | 3:30–6:30 PM
🎟️ Free event – register: shorturl.at/0RqJT

Join us for research insights, personal stories & the premiere of Dys is Me 🎬

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Jun 1

Is PowerPoint still the go-to for making conference posters, or is there something better these days? Been a while…

Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · May 15

Can prosthetic hand control and acceptance be influenced by personality?

The tendency to engage in conscious control (Reinvestment) is seemingly associated with worse outcomes for prosthetic hand users.

Great new study from our amazing PhD student!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Effects of movement-specific reinvestment on upper-limb prosthesis control and user experience

Prosthetic hand devices are frequently abandoned as they are difficult to use and impose high mental workload upon users. However, researchers are yet to establish whether personality factors might...

www.tandfonline.com

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Nov 28

Why is recovering from a loss of balance sometimes harder when we overthink it?

In our new EEG study (now out in Jneuro!), we show that consciously controlling balance dampens the cortical response to a sudden loss of balance (and balance gets worse)!
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

A “Conscious” Loss of Balance: Directing Attention to Movement Can Impair the Cortical Response to Postural Perturbations

“Trying too hard” can interfere with skilled movement, such as sports and music playing. Postural control can similarly suffer when conscious attention is directed toward it (“conscious movement proce...

www.jneurosci.org

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Jan 25

I’ll send him an email! Looking forward to the paper. Any chance your talk is being recorded? Also…heard Exeter away day is returning 2025 🙌🏻…

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Jan 25

Have my first PPI group discussion next week! Do you go into these with any formal structure? I have an agenda of items I want feedback on, but mostly going to vibe it. Also wondering how to more formally report the PPI process in the papers that follow?

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Dec 19

Prof Wolfson get tasked back to X

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Dec 19

I will gate keep anything at this point to keep it interesting

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Dec 19

Maybe just a time thing. But right now obviously getting far less here..

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Dec 19

Blue sky: the intentions feel good but in truth it seems to suck compared to twitter. Am I wrong?

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Hilary H. Wang @hilaryhwang.bsky.social · Nov 29

Interesting implications for fall risk in the elderly -- can imagine after an index fall that people exert CMP when walking and worsen their gait

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thank you! 🙏🏻

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Toby Ellmers @tobyellmers.bsky.social · Nov 28

First 'proper' post here (and a lazy quote repost at that :D). New paper published in J Neuroscience. Here we explore the neural mechanisms underpinning the paradoxical decreases in stability that occur when people try to consciously control balance. www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Nov 28

Paradoxically – it seems that trying too hard to maximise “current” stability reduces the cortex’s ability to effectively respond to future losses of balance. @tobyellmers.bsky.social @elmarkal.bsky.social

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Johnny Parr @johnnyparr.bsky.social · Nov 28

Why is recovering from a loss of balance sometimes harder when we overthink it?

In our new EEG study (now out in Jneuro!), we show that consciously controlling balance dampens the cortical response to a sudden loss of balance (and balance gets worse)!
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

A “Conscious” Loss of Balance: Directing Attention to Movement Can Impair the Cortical Response to Postural Perturbations

“Trying too hard” can interfere with skilled movement, such as sports and music playing. Postural control can similarly suffer when conscious attention is directed toward it (“conscious movement proce...

www.jneurosci.org

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