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  • Co Owners of CAMHS Change report

    Transforming CAMHS from the ground up

    A report, issued this week, ‘Co-owners of Change: CAMHS Transformation Clinical Champions’, provides insights to an important consultation with clinicians, highlighting the desire for clinical engagement.

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  • Dr Max Davie, Paediatrician, holding a sign about ACAMH

    Q&A with Dr Max Davie, Consultant Paediatrician

    Interview with Dr Max Davie, Consultant Paediatrician, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust & ACAMH Board Member.

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  • Welsh branch puts on dyslexia day with academic heavyweights

    Conference review Dyslexia: From assessment to intervention This September saw ACAMH’s Wales branch host a one day conference on dyslexia in Cardiff. Over sixty delegates made the trip to the city’s All Nations’ Centre to listen to talks from leading researchers and practitioners. The day was opened with a warm welcome from Dr Owen Barry, […]

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  • Practicing what we preach

    Today is World Mental Health Day, with this year’s theme being mental health in the workplace. I believe the most valuable asset any organisation has are its staff, and their wellbeing should be paramount to every CEO.

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  • Mental health in schools

    “Sometimes you feel like a volcano erupting,” one eight-year-old boy told us, “but if you come to Place2Be, you can cool down.”

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    The pariah of dyslexia

    Sometimes, academia calls for a thick skin, particularly if you’re notorious for denouncing an entire area of research.

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  • Professor Maggie Snowling

    Dyslexia and developmental language disorder: same or different?

    Maggie Snowling looks at how we understand the definition, development and relationship between dyslexia and developmental language disorder (DLD).

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  • The Parent Blame Game

    Seventy years ago Leo Kanner published his seminal paper describing autism. In that paper he also coined the term “refrigerator mother” apportioning some of the cause for the distinctive profile of autistic behaviour to cold, harsh parenting practices.

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  • Professor Maggie Snowling

    ‘Dyslexia and Language Impairment’ Professor Maggie Snowling

    Professor Maggie Snowling on ‘Dyslexia and Language Impairment’. Recorded on 29 September 2017, and was organised by the Welsh ACAMH Branch as part of the conference, ‘Dyslexia from assessment to intervention’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

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    Jonathan Green and Jon Spiers discuss early intervention in autism

    Prof. Green has recently published a randomised trial of parent-mediated intervention for infants at high risk for autism.

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