Bridging the Gap between Research, Policies and Practice

Online Event October 16, 2021

Please note: This is a PAST event and information here is for your reference only.

On October 16 we had yet another Autumn Seminars. This year we saw each other online and compressed the programme to one day.

The theme for this year was:

Learnings from Covid – Challenges and Opportunities for the future

A fitting theme and one we hope will help us all spread some light on research and practice in these challenging times.

Programme

Saturday, October 16
Time (CET)	Event	Remarks
9:00 – 9:10	Opening ceremony and Presentation of the EDA Board EDA President Rosie Bissett
Session 1 Chair: Giannis Karagiannakis (Coordinator of the Academical Advisory Committee)
9:10 – 9:50	Keynote 1 Professor Lisa B Thorell, Karolinska Institutet Experiences of homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic for children with special educational needs
9:50 – 10:10	Discussion on Keynote 1
10:10 – 10:30	Comfort break
Session 2 (Paper sessions) Chair: Pernilla Söderberg (EDA Vice Chairperson, Chair of EDA Event and communication committee)
10:30	Paper 1 (15 min) Presenter: Valentina Berlusconi (Italy) COVID-19 lockdown and Specific Learning Disabilities: effects on school performance and emotion Valentina Berlusconi a), Linda Greta Dui b), Laura Borzaga a), Vera Galli c), Rossella Lipari a), Marta Vergani c), Massimo Agosti d),e), Francesca Lunardini b), Simona Ferrante b), Cristiano Termine a), d) Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, NearLab, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences,University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy. Department of Maternal and Child Health, Del Ponte Hospital, Varese, Italy. Paediatric Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. Download abstract
10:50	Paper 2 (15 min) Presenter: Keith Murphy (Ireland) How COVID19 and dyslexia can invoke a form of academic imprisonment through voice suppression and online teaching Lecturer in Technological University Dublin, Ireland. PhD research funded under a John and Pat Hume Scholarship, Maynooth University, Ireland Download abstract
11:10	Paper 3 (15 min) Presenter: Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus (Israel) How much screen-based literacy and reading exposure is beneficial? Neurobiological perspective Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, PhD Director, Educational Neuroimaging Center Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Technion, Israel http://neuroimaging-center.technion.ac.il/ Scientific Director, Reading and Literacy Discovery Center Associate Professor, Division of General and Community Pediatrics Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA https://rldc.cchmc.org Download abstract
11:30	Paper 4 (15 min) Presenter: Vrailexia Project (Spain) On-going research: Virtual reality environment for addressing reading difficulties and emotional distress in dyslexic university students Sara Pinzi, Dep. Química Física y Termodinámica Aplicada Ed Leonardo da Vinci, Campus de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain Pilar Aparicio-Martinez, Dep. de Enfermería, Facultad de Medicina y Enfermería, Avda. Menéndez Pidal s/n, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain. Download abstract
11:50	Panel discussions on the four papers Presenters and Academic Advisory Committee
12:15 – 13:15	Lunch and meeting areas
Session 3 Chair: Vincent Lochmann (EDA Vice Chairperson, Chair of EDA Lobby committee)
13:15 – 13:30	EDA Members’ perspective on COVID-19 Dr Florentine Paudel (EDA)
13:30 – 14:00	Keynote 2 Professor John Rack (EDA Academic advisory) Dyslexia in the pandemic, parent, stakeholders and personal perspectives – Overview Pandemic learnings
14:00 – 14:45	Discussion and perspective sharing from member organisations Professor John Rack and David McLoughlin from AAC Important questions to share-During and post COVID-19
14:45 – 15:00	Comfort break
Session 4 Chair: Rosie Bissett (EDA Chairperson)
15:00 – 15:40	Keynote 3 Professor Nadine Gaab, Harvard University Dyslexia professional perspective on Covid 19 “Early Literacy Milestone and Dyslexia Screening: The Role of Early Identification and Its Implication for Intervention pre-and post COVID-19″
15:40 – 16:00	Discussion on Keynote 3
16:00	Coming up in EDA Rosie Bissett and Pernilla Söderberg (Event and communication)
	Closing remarks Rosie Bissett (EDA Chairperson)

Autumn Seminars 2021

Bridging the Gap between Research, Policies and Practice

Online Event October 16, 2021

Programme

Opening ceremony and Presentation of the EDA Board

EDA President Rosie Bissett

Session 1

Keynote 1

Professor Lisa B Thorell, Karolinska Institutet

Discussion on Keynote 1

Comfort break

Session 2 (Paper sessions)

Paper 1 (15 min)

Presenter: Valentina Berlusconi (Italy)

Paper 2 (15 min)

Presenter: Keith Murphy (Ireland)

Paper 3 (15 min)

Presenter: Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus (Israel)

Paper 4 (15 min)

Presenter: Vrailexia Project (Spain)

Panel discussions on the four papers

Presenters and Academic Advisory Committee

Lunch and meeting areas

Session 3

EDA Members’ perspective on COVID-19

Dr Florentine Paudel (EDA)

Keynote 2

Professor John Rack (EDA Academic advisory)

Discussion and perspective sharing from member organisations

Professor John Rack and David McLoughlin from AAC

Comfort break

Session 4

Keynote 3

Professor Nadine Gaab, Harvard University

Discussion on Keynote 3

Coming up in EDA

Rosie Bissett and Pernilla Söderberg (Event and communication)

Closing remarks

Rosie Bissett (EDA Chairperson)

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