This year’s Seattle Club Conference is being hosted by Glasgow Caledonian University in association with the University of Glasgow and Napier University Edinburgh. An impressive … Read more
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The development, implementation and evaluation of a specialist treatment programme for criminal firesetters
In 2011 Professor Theresa Gannon secured a grant to undertake a three year project on the development, implementation and evaluation of a specialist treatment programme … Read more
Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour Conference – Malta
Prof Glynis Murphy attended the Conference on Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour as a key note speaker, presenting on the NICE guidelines to 160 delegates … Read more
University of Kent Study Plus Courses
Study Plus at the University offers a diverse range of courses in lots of different areas, these are totally separate from your degree. Courses are … Read more
A World without Down’s Syndrome?
Following on from Sally Phillips’ film about Down’s syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening, there have been a number of posts on the Tizard … Read more
IASSIDD Round UP
The 15th World Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) in Melbourne, Australia was attended by a … Read more
What does good look like?
Together with Bev Murphy from United Response, Prof Julie Beadle-Brown(Tizard Centre) has developed a new resource for inspectors, quality monitors, commissioners and anyone else who … Read more
Talking Mats Training
Talking Mats communication symbols tool is based on extensive research and designed by Speech and Language Therapists. It uses unique, specially designed picture communication symbols … Read more
Rescon Technologies Scholarship
We are delighted to announce that Jayne Hussey, RA/QA Officer at Toshiba Medical Systems has been awarded their scholarship for this year. Rescon Technologies is … Read more
IASSIDD Melbourne 2016
Members of the Tizard Centre are currently attending the IASSIDD Conference 14 – 19 August 2016 in Melbourne. Prof Glynis Murphy delivered a key note speech … Read more