Category: Tizard Centre

Aida Malovic, PhD student at the University of Kent and a Research Assistant at Tizard, recently attended the South East Doctoral Training Centre 4th Annual Conference … Read more

The Researching All Together Group (RAG) at the Tizard Centre is made up of service users who have been advising Tizard staff and students on … Read more

The Tizard Centre is considering putting on a new Masters level course in Positive Behaviour support and wish to gauge the potential level of interest … Read more

A one day Conference to be held on Thursday 10 September 2015 at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton 0900-1400 hrs.  Presentation topics include person-centred approaches, … Read more

Kent University are holding a one day conference of the lastest research and innovative drama-based practices used successfully to interact with autism. This is being … Read more

We are delighted to announce that Dr Janet Carr, Honorary Senior Lecturer, has been awarded an OBE for services to people with Down’s Syndrome and … Read more

“Quality of life and quality of support for people with severe intellectual disability and complex needs”.  The findings of this research project are now available … Read more

Despite the drive towards the provision of local, specialised support, hundreds of children and young people with intellectual disabilities are still placed in out-of-area residential … Read more

Dr Peter Baker, Dr Peter Langdon and Professor Glynis Murphy from Tizard have returned from a 3 day Autism Conference in May hosted by a … Read more

A positive behavioural support framework has been launched today which can be downloaded for free.   The PBS coalition, a subgroup of the Challenging Behaviour … Read more