Dyslexic Adult Network Meeting: Dr Neil Alexander-Passe - Dyslexia and Mental Health
Dr Neil Alexander-Passe will be joining this meeting for dyslexic adults at the Unite building, via Zoom from London, to talk about his research into dyslexia and mental health.
About Dyslexic Adult Network Meeting: Dr Neil Alexander-Passe - Dyslexia and Mental Health
Neil experiences dyslexia himself, and has over the last 20 years specialised in the emotional experience of having a learning difference. He has published fifteen books and twelve peer review papers in the field of dyslexia and neurodiversity, looking at correlations with mental health, success, crime, creativity, parenting and marriage.
Neil is the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCO) at a large secondary school in North London. Neil is a Scientific Board Member for the Asia Pacific Journal of Developmental Differences, Dyslexia Association of Singapore; an academic board member at ‘SPELT’, a dyslexia organisation in Tasmania, Australia; and a member of the newly formed ‘Dyslexia Research Centre of Excellence’ part of the Dear Dyslexia Foundation. Neil gained his PhD in 2018 investigating ‘Dyslexia, Traumatic Schooling, and Post-School Success.’ His latest book was published in June 2024 on ‘ADHD and Crime: investigating the school to prison pipeline’. Another ‘ADHD: School, Addiction, and possible pathways to crime. A parent's guide’ will be published soon. He is currently researching and writing a new book ‘Autism and Crime: investigating the school to prison pipeline’.
Free tea, coffee and biscuits.
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