Category: Tizard Centre

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

We are delighted to announce that Tony Osgood and Jill Bradshaw have  both won Kent Union Teaching Awards voted by the students themselves; the ultimate accolade … Read more

Our Year 2 Autism students attended their final workshop this week presenting their portfolio work and describing how they had been working to improve the quality … Read more

Prof Glynis Murphy gave an invited keynote address  on ‘Sex and Sexuality: Are We Nearly There Yet?’  to the British Psychological Society’s annual Faculty of … Read more

Prof Glynis Murphy, Dr Rowena Rossiter and Aida Malovic provided the second 2-day training event for facilitators of a CBT- based group treatment, ‘Keep Safe’, … Read more

Kent & Medway NHS are holding a Learning Disability Practice Forum on Thursday 28th May 2015 1400 – 1600hrs.  The speaker for the event is … Read more

‘File on Four’, Radio 4, May 5th at 2000 hrs will focus on people with learning disabilities and their access to justice following alleged assaults. … Read more

Prof Glynis Murphy and Viv Cooper, CEO of the Challenging Behaviour Foundation, both attended a recent meeting in Manchester along with other members of the … Read more