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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you so much for coming, Penny! We are so glad you enjoyed the symposium.

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Emma Gleave @egleave1.bsky.social · 8d

Professionals with experience of providing psychological therapy to adults with learning disabilities needed for research to develop a therapeutic working alliance measure for this population. Click here: forms.gle/L8TYrjxBBGhC...

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Developing a working alliance measure for adults with intellectual disabilities: Focus group

Primary researcher: Emma Gleave, Trainee Clinical Psychologist, University of Sheffield Research supervisors: Dr Gregg Rawlings, Prof Nigel Beail, and Dr Nik Vlissides

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · 5d

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

Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · 5d

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

Lilac flyer for the Digital Lifeline research project which reads:

Do you support an adult (18+) with a learning disability who got a free tablet in the COVID-19 pandemic? We want to invite you to our online supporters’ workshop to talk about your experiences. You’ll receive a £75 shopping voucher for taking part. Email us for more information: digitallifeline@mmu.ac.uk

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · 13d

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

A flyer for an online symposium with white text and speakers' photos on a brick wall background. Text reads: Wed 8th October 12-2pm. Religions, Faith Communities and Disability. Online symposium with speakers Dr Krysia Waldock, Bernice Hardie and Fiona MacMillan. Chaired by Dr Naomi Jacobs. Link to event via Eventbrite.

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Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · 28d

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:

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.

www.downs-syndrome.org.uk

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Sep 4

Prof Chris Hatton has blogged about the recently-released LeDeR Annual Report 2023, including some worrying inconsistencies and trends there. "It looks like less attention and less scrutiny is being paid of the deaths of people with learning disabilities." chrishatton.blogspot.com/2025/09/lede...

LeDeR Report 2025 - a first look

This is a blog post based on my first reaction to the much delayed latest version of the LeDeR report. As you’ll see, I didn’t get as far t...

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Aug 8

"The book highlights the enduringly impoverished lives and premature deaths people labelled with learning disabilities experience globally and suggests that such structural violence amounts to social murder." @sarasiobhan.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Critical-Hea...

Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder

This empirically grounded book presents a critical, interdisciplinary perspective on social and cultural issues related to the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities. Through an exp...

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Aug 8

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/

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...

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

Do you know someone with a learning disability who got a tablet in 2021 through the Digital Lifeline Fund?

They could win up to £100 for telling us about their experiences (with multiple chances to win!) and your organisation will get a thank-you payment for connecting us with them.

E-mail us: digitallifeline@mmu.ac.uk for more

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jul 9

"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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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....

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jul 8

'Our investigation of the experiences of public witnesses shows that, from their standpoint, FtP hearings are experienced as inherently unfair.'

Follow the link to read more about findings emerging from the Witness to Harm project:

@francescaribenfors.bsky.social @sarasiobhan.bsky.social

Iatrogenic injustice: an institutional ethnography of Fitness to Practise hearings

The public has an important role to play in the regulation of health and social care, including raising concerns about harms caused by health and soci…

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jul 4

In this short video, Professor Sara Ryan, research group lead, and Professor Chris Hatton share more about the Learning Disability and Autism research group at @scswmcrmet.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social.

#AcademicSky #AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #ResearchGroup #ManMet

BAP - 6704 Chancellor's Dinner Research Film V10

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 30

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!

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 27

For more information about the @medmentalhealth.bsky.social project, along with useful resources for talking about mental health medications, you can visit the project website: medmentalhealth.net

#MyMedicationMyMentalHealth #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch

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Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 18

You can also read #comics about the stories of people with #LearningDisabilities, #carers, #families, and #prescribers:

📖: medmentalhealth.net#page-a

#LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #MentalHealth

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Medications and My Mental Health Glossary says what important words about mental health and medication mean. For example, it says what a counsellor does.

Read the glossary: medmentalhealth.net#page-1

#MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 18

The easy-read question and answer booklets give more
information to help people talk about your mental health
and medications. They answer questions like 'what is mental
health?'

Read the booklets here: medmentalhealth.net#page-2

#MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

Medications and My Mental Health

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 17

'[...] 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.

📖 sjdr.se/articles/10....

#LearningDisabilityWeek

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...

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 16

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.

Six people celebrating around a sign for Learning Disability Week 2025.

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · May 16

The information toolkit has helpful tools to use and share with others who help with mental health medications like GPs, nurses or pharmacists:

Go to the toolkit: medmentalhealth.net#information-...

#LearningDisabilityResearch #MedMentalHealth

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · May 16

People with #LearningDisabilities are more likely to take medications for their mental health. The project sought to create a toolkit of resources to help people with learning disabilities be more involved in decisions about their mental health medications.

#MedMentalHealth #AcademicSky

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · May 16

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

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