Students, staff and colleagues from PSSRU completed their certified talking mats training under the leadership of accredited trainer, Jill Bradshaw, Tizard Centre. Taking Mats is … Read more
Category: Tizard Centre
Intellectual Disability Forum 26th May 2015
Diversity and disabilities: improving health outcomes for young people and adults with intellectual disabilities from black and minority ethnic communtities. The Intellectual Disability Forum will … Read more
Autism Awareness Day University of Kent
The University of Kent are holding an autism awareness day on Wednesday 1st April 2015, as part of World Autism Awareness Week. Activities will include an … Read more
Consultancy with schools from Rogaland, Norway
Tizard Centre hosted a visit from 12 senior staff from special education departments within schools from the Rogaland Region of Norway. There were staff from … Read more
Jim Mansell Memorial Lecture & Dinner
The 2015 Jim Mansell Memorial Lecture was held on Friday 20th March with Viv Cooper, OBE, Chief Executive Officer of the Challenging Behaviour Foundation giving the … Read more
Disability Hate Crime Conference
The Jigsaw Project (mcch), set up in response to the Living in Fear Research Project (a collaboration between mcch, Tizard Centre and Kent Police) is … Read more
Jim Mansell Memorial Lecture – free access to papers
With the Jim Mansell Memorial Lecture being held this Friday 20th March at 1800 hrs, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Emerald Publishing are allowing free … Read more
Shaping the future
Dr Rowena Rossiter, Aida Malovic and Prof Glynis Murphy have recently presented workshops on the Keep Safe Research Project at NSPCC’s Conference on young people … Read more
NICE: Learning Disabilities and Behaviour that Challenges
The NICE Guideline Development Group for ‘Learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges’ met for the final time last week. The guidelines are the first that … Read more
Autism and the criminal justice system
Prof Murphy was an invited speaker at the NOTA South East Region annual conference on Autism and the Criminal Justice System, on Tuesday 10th February … Read more