Co-occurrence of #ADHD, #dyslexia, and/or #dyscalculia sometimes feels like salt on the wound. The underlying reasons that happen are not well understood, but it might be genes that influence common traits across multiple #LearningDisabilities.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241293999

With all the talk about social care in #ukpolitics at the moment there's an assumption that it only affects the elderly.

There's a huge number of people in social care who are not elderly and I seriously hope they are being considered by the government and it's review.

This includes people with severe and profound learning disabilities, as well as people with severe mental health issues needing care.

Our family experiences of moving from hospital care to care in the case of mental illness has been extremely mixed.

The common factor in all of this seems to be that Social Care is seen as a profit centre by a huge number of businesses - and I'm unconvinced that many of them have the interests of the clients at heart.

The Fort Lowestoft in the UK is a gaming-based charity that supports people with learning disabilities. They run a gaming hub and social space for their community and are a really great charity. The Fort is raising money to purchase their space from their landlord and could use some help! Boosts are greatly appreciated to help them reach this goal. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lowestoft-mencap-save-the-centre-fight-for-the-fort?lang=en_GB #gaming #charity #GoFundMe #LearningDisabilities #disability #fundraising

I have some pretty out-there ideas around assistive technology and learning disabilities.

For example, I believe all children should be taught phonics. This is the standard in most countries, but not in the US.

I believe that for children who have fine motor skill deficit, keyboards are great, but so are gliding pens, such as gel, or fountain pens.

I believe that for learning language, Esperanto can be an assistive technology, both for a foreign language, and even for someone who is struggling with English.

I think slide rules should make a return, and would ideally have a larger role than graphing calculators (are these still around?)

I think that privacy-respecting, FLOSS, and locally hosted AI can play a huge role in education, providing a host of services from explanations, to quizzing, to helping provide outlines and examples.

Hey #Neurodiverse friends - did you ever wonder if you were a #changeling or #alien (or any other non-human #sapient #being ) that got stuck in a human body?

Please boost for visibility & comment if you'd like to share your story!

#Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #NeurodivergentThinking
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #ADD #ADHD #AuADHD
#OCD #LearningDisabilities
(Please feel free to add more hashtags in the comments, I'm still learning!)

#introduction #intro
Hello!
We are CMIC
Setting up a training brewery for people with learning disabilities and/or autism in Reading, UK, at The Castle Tap
We're going to crowdfund to set up our own space at the Castle Tap.
In the meantime we're brewing with our trainees on other exceptional breweries kit.
So far we've brewed with the awesome Elusive Brewing. The beer we made (called Count Me In) featured at the Great British Beer Festival.
#LearningDisabilities #gbbf #beer #brewery #autism

Great raffle prizes, follow to see more as we get them. Please boost this for reach as we don't have many followers & hardly any in #RDUK but anyway:
*3 days to go til our very first beer launch & fundraiser!*
On Saturday 22nd we launch our first beer, brewed with Elusive Brewing
Please come to Castle Tap, from 7pm, meet everyone involved and help us raise money to kickstart our training brewery for people with learning disabilities and/or autism. #Autism #Beer #Brewing #LearningDisabilities

ChatGPT for students with Dyslexia? Expert Opinion: Examining the use of ChatGPT as an Assistive Technology Tool for Students with Learning Disabilities https://on.dystinct.org/chatgpt-learning-disability-assistive-technology-expert-opinion/ #AI #ChatGPT #LearningDisabilities #dyslexia #education

@actuallyautistic
@autisticadvocacy
@disabilityjustice
Hi folks, I really recommend following @GeorgeJulian a journalist who posts about the treatment of #autistic people and people with #LearningDisabilities in the U.K.

This is a #HumanRights issue. It’s really important we recognise how our #neurokin are being cared for.

Go find out more and boost some of their posts.

For anyone in the #Somerset or #Bath area who likes fresh, #local, #seasonal #vegetables and #flowers, check out Root Connections in Stratton on the Fosse. They're a Community Interest Company: all profits go towards ending #homelessness. They also support recovering #addicts, people with #LearningDisabilities, ex-offenders and others.

They're hosting a #Christmas market this Saturday ... do go along and have a look.

https://www.rootconnections.co.uk/root-connections-impact

#mastodonNewbie . I work in UK services for adults with #learningdisabilities #intellectualdisabilities and interested in #psychologicaltherapies around this. Also #nhsrecruitment #nhsretention is a real issue for us in providing support and reducing waiting times.