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Emailing Discussion Forums

There are many e-mail discussion forums relevant for dyslexia. Some are for professionals in special needs areas. Non-professionals may join them and observe, but are not expected to participate. Archives of some lists are available to everyone. Others are for members only.

Senco-Forum

Senco-forum is a mailing for anyone who wants to support Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs), those in Local Authorities and others involved in the education of pupils with special educational needs.
Senco-forum is the most relevant group for dyslexia:
http://lists.education.gov.uk/mailman/listsinfo/senco-forum

There are also other special needs groups: http://lists.education.gov.uk/mailman/listinfo

Other forums of interest include EAL-bilingual, MFL-SEN, EBD-Forum, High-ability, SENIT (ICT for SEN), Speech Recognition, and Dyslexia Wales.

JISCmail

JISCmail is the National Academic Mailing List Service.

It has many lists for all areas of higher education including:

Dis-forum. For the discussion of disability support administration issues in higher education.
SpLD forum. Discussion forum for SpLD Professionals and Researchers.
dyslexia forum This started off as a forum for students doing dyslexia research. However, it has become a self-help information discussion group for parents, dyslexics and others.