Many of us in the team at School of Clinical Dentistry | Sheffield have been advocating for the importance of including children in oral and #dental research since 2007. This work - led by zmarshman & Helen Rodd - has involved so many over the years including Laura Timms Jenny Harris Fiona Noble

In AUSTRALIA! So excited to present at International Society for Autism Research, INSAR Please do pop by my poster tomorrow and say hi if you are interested in our oral health intervention (to support parents in looking after their childrens teeth), including #austichildren in research and community involvement!

Come see us at International Society for Autism Research, INSAR to discuss our toothPASTE Autism Study. We used TalkingMats and spoken interviews to explore toothbrushing, eating & drinking and going to the dentist with #autistic children. This informed our oral health support package, available September 2024

Fantastic presentation about proactive (not reactive) integrated detection-care pathway for #autistic children (including support) led by Jonathan Green & great to see this brilliant paper Kathy Leadbitter #INSAR2024

Had a fantastic time at #INSAR2024 presenting the toothPASTE Autism Study && a special thanks to the amazing team Peter Day Kathy Leadbitter Karen Vinall-Collier zmarshman Prof Sarah Baker Kara Gray-Burrows for this opportunity to present in Australia!

👀 Look out for this Support package coming Sept 24, says Amrit (Bhatti) Chauhan. Oral health in children with #autism 🪥 🦷 “Developing trust and routine through consistency, collaboration and communication” Great way to sum it up. That’s what’s needed. That’s what works 👏🏻 #dentistry

It's nearly time for our staff study day! If you work for Leeds Teaching Hospitals and have an interest in Autism/ Learning Disability, please get in touch. This is suitable for staff in ANY role 🌟 Please share 🌟

For our next stop we arrived in #melbourne where we were hosted by Mihiri Silva and the wonderful team- discussing all things toothPASTE Autism Study and #qualitativeresearch it was wonderful 🥺 Thank you!

Wishing all our postgrads and staff a happy Eid. I hope you have a lovely time celebrating with friends and family. Paediatric Dentistry at Leeds Leeds Dental School

“It isn’t someone’s diagnosis that defines them or often disables them, it is the barriers within the system.” Shelley Russell, Programme Manager for the West Yorkshire ICB Learning Disability programme, tells us more about her valuable work: bit.ly/3RorYWI #LDWeek24

Otis was on a work trip to Auz with our staff researchers Kara Gray-Burrows and Amrit (Bhatti) Chauhan. Otis had a really good time hearing talks from our team about oral health intervention approaches and behaviour change in Dentistry. He even enjoyed visiting the Sydney Opera House.

Our NEST downloads are back online! 💻 And we've hit 750+ downloads! 🥳 NEST is a free suite of resources (co-designed w neurodivergent young ppl) for mainstream secondary schools to establish & maintain peer support networks for neurodivergent students salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/research/nest-…

So lucky to have Saskia Grassie alongside other experts with lived experience, on our toothPASTE Autism Study team. Thank you for joining! Cant wait for the videos designed for parents of autistic children, covering topics like toothbrushing, eating & drinking & attending the dentist.

Today sees the launch of our report urging national and local action to improve children’s oral health - delighted to have written this with ⁦Peter Day⁩ with ⁦Centre for Young Lives⁩ ⁦Child of the North⁩ ⁦School of Clinical Dentistry | Sheffield⁩ centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/re…