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、心理学和公共卫生合作学院的领导核心 创新中心将培训下一代LD研究人员，通过以下方式承担跨学科、有影响力的工作 学习进行尖端神经科学，并参与更广泛的儿童教育系统。要做到这一点 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 培训和提供翻译科学培训计划-所有这些都旨在为早期调查人员做好准备 弥补学习困难(LDiff)研究和最佳实践之间差距所需的技能 教育系统。我们的框架使用双向中心和辐条模型，将嵌入式研究联系起来 与受训者与实践者/学习人员一起工作的社区站点网络的项目(中心) 教育系统中的专家，并就社区向研究性研究提供反馈 需求和沟通挑战。该中心将培训早期职业科学家，以进行尖端 神经科学，探索连接环境、化学和社会的生物和认知途径 暴露在艾利夫身上。模型的轮辐由平移部分组成，早期的研究人员在其中 接受如何与社区成员接触和倾听的培训，并将社区需求和 为负责做出改变的从业者、教育工作者和政策制定者提供相关研究 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 一整套研究、沟通和领导技能，横跨神经科学、流行病学、系统 思考学、传播学和实施学。核心将制定一项行政和培训 为整个LD创新中心提供基础设施，提供最先进的生物/神经科学研究 方法培训计划，并实施翻译科学培训计划与教学和 体验式组件。 影响：我们的领导核心通过在以下方面培训未来的领导者来扩展LD研究范式 神经科学和分析技术(中枢)，链接到以社区为基础的翻译实践 在弱势教育社区的经验(轮辐)。我们超越了社区 参与性研究，为未来的学习障碍领导者提供以实践为基础的交流、听力和 参与技能，使他们能够成为独立的调查人员、教职员工和 经济困难家庭儿童的代言人 有学习困难的人，从而有助于缩小研究和实践之间的差距。

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.