The CU Learning Disabilities (LD) Leadership Core: Scaffolding a Growing Center of Environmental LD Research and The Next generation of LD Scholars

哥伦比亚精神病学、心理学和公共卫生协作LD的领导核心 创新中心将通过以下方式培训下一代LD研究人员，以开展跨学科，有影响力的工作 学习进行尖端的神经科学，并与更广泛的儿童教育系统参与。这么做 我们将建立一个综合的领导力培训基础设施，提供最先进的神经科学研究 培训，并提供转化科学培训计划-所有这些都旨在为早期研究人员做好准备， 弥合学习困难研究与最佳做法之间的差距所需的技能 教育制度我们的框架使用双向的中心和辐条模型，将嵌入式研究 项目（中心），有一个社区网站网络，学员在其中与从业人员/学习者合作 专家在教育系统，并提供反馈的研究，就社区 需求和沟通挑战。该中心将培训早期职业科学家， 神经科学探索生物和认知途径连接环境化学和社会 暴露于LDiff。模型的辐条包括平移部分，早期的研究者 接受培训，了解如何与社区成员接触和倾听他们的意见，并将社区的需求和 相关的研究，以从业者，教育工作者和决策者谁是负责作出改变， 教育环境。因此，领导核心将为下一代LD研究科学家做好准备， 一套完整的研究，沟通和领导技能，跨越神经科学，流行病学，系统 思想、传播与实施科学。核心将制定一个行政和培训 整个LD创新中心的基础设施，提供最先进的生物/神经科学研究 方法培训计划，并实施转化科学培训计划， 经验成分。 影响：我们的领导核心通过培训未来的领导者， 神经科学和分析技术（枢纽），链接到一个翻译社区为基础的实习 在弱势教育群体中的经验（辐条）。我们超越社区 参与式研究，为未来的LD领导者提供基于实践的沟通，倾听， 参与技能，使他们能够成为独立的调查人员，教师， 经济困难家庭儿童的代言人， 这有助于缩小研究与实践之间的差距。

The Leadership Core of the Columbia Psychiatry, Psychology, and Public Health Collaborative LD Innovation Hub will train the next generation of LD researchers to take on transdisciplinary, impactful work by learning to conduct cutting-edge neuroscience and engage with the wider child educational system. To do this we will build an integrated leadership training infrastructure, providing state-of-the-art neuroscience research training, and delivering a translational science training program—all aimed to prepare early investigators with skills needed to bridge the gap between learning difficulties (LDiff) research and best practices in the educational system. Our framework uses a bidirectional hub and spoke model, linking the embedded research project (the hub) with a network of community sites in which trainees work with practitioners/learning specialists in the educational system and provide feedback to the research study with respect to community needs and communication challenges. The hub will train early career scientists to conduct cutting-edge neuroscience to explore the biological and cognitive pathways linking environmental chemical and social exposures to LDiff. The spokes of the model comprise the translational component, in which early investigators receive training in how to engage with and listen to community members, and translate community needs and relevant research to practitioners, educators, and policy-makers who are responsible for making change in educational settings. The Leadership Core will thus prepare the next generation of LD research scientists with a full set of research, communication, and leadership skills, spanning neuroscience, epidemiology, systems thinking, and dissemination & implementation science. The core will develop an administrative and training infrastructure for the overall LD Innovation Hub, deliver a state-of-the-art biological/neuroscience research methods training program, and implement a translational science training program with didactic and experiential components. IMPACT: Our Leadership Core expands the LD research paradigm by training future leaders in neuroscience and analytic techniques (the hub), linked to a translational community-based practicum experience in disadvantaged educational communities (the spokes). We go beyond community participatory research to prepare future LD leaders with practice-based communication, listening, and engagement skills, enabling them to become independent investigators, faculty members, and spokespersons for children from economically disadvantaged families who suffer disproportionately with learning difficulties, thereby helping to close the gap between research and practice.