THREAD: We pleased to share our SPICE lab's 2020 'year-in-review' thread. We are proud at what we've accomplished during this unprecedented & challenging year.

Below, we have included links to recent papers & reports.

Please RT. Thank you!

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First, we were pleased to create a report describing the impact of #covid19bc on BC's #children w/ #medicalcomplexity & their #families.

This report is downloadable at: https://spice.nursing.ubc.ca/outreach/ 

We thank the families who shared their time!

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We were pleased that many tweeps & the media helped to amplify our report describing the impact of #covid19bc on BC's #children with #medicalcomplexity & their #families.

Please see this Abbotsford News article: https://www.abbynews.com/news/pandemic-restricting-access-to-services-for-children-with-complex-medical-issues-ubc-study/

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Pandemic restricting access to services for children with complex medical issues: UBC study -...

Parents of children with complex medical reduced their access to hospitals and schools

https://www.abbynews.com/news/pandemic-restricting-access-to-services-for-children-with-complex-medical-issues-ubc-study/
Second, we were pleased to create our "Inclusive Education Snapshot" report, describing the province-level prevalence over time in BC's K-12 students w/ learning exceptionalities & disabilities.

Link to the report: https://spice.nursing.ubc.ca/outreach/ 

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Third, working w/ the @mccrearycentre's British Columbia Adolescent Health survey, we published a paper describing the sociodemographic profiles of high school students across multiple special needs & disabilities

https://nasenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1471-3802.12488

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Fourth, working alongside some of BC's education leaders, we published a 'research priority setting' paper describing their perspectives on what they feel should be priorities in special education research.

Link: https://journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index.php/ijepl/article/view/987

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Our RPS paper showed that education leaders prioritised research on: high school completion, grade-to-grade transitions & time to initial SPED designation.

These 3 topics were focus of our related 2019 public report: https://spice.nursing.ubc.ca/outreach/ 

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Fifth, we conducted an online survey, asking BC's parents & guardians about impact of #COVID19bc on #InclusiveEducation for their K-12 children w/ disabilities (incl learning exceptionalities, complex learners, neurodiverse & special needs.)

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Sixth, we were delighted to be awarded a Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) from @SSHRC_CRSH, which is facilitating our research exploring the impact of #COVID19bc on #inclusiveeducation in BC.

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Throughout 2020, we were grateful to expand our partnerships w/ many great colleagues & organisations, including @BCEdAccess, @InclusionBC & @justintime02. We thank you all!

Thanks also to our PhD student trainees Danjie Zou & Christine Ou.

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We also thank so many friends & tweeps who faithfully share our work on social media. We appreciate your support!

For further information about SPICE, please visit: https://spice.nursing.ubc.ca/  or email [email protected]

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In closing, we wish you all a safe and healthy holiday season. We look forward to working with, sharing with, and learning from you all in 2021.

Onward!
💫⭐️🌟

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(cc @UBCNursing, @ubcappscience, @GERONursing, @JEVLloyd)
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