Category: Tizard Centre

Yesterday’s article in The Guardian looks at the problem of domestic abuse suffered by  women with learning disabilities and links into the recent research carried out … Read more

Taking Mats is a communication symbols tool.  It is based on extensive research and designed by Speech and Language Therapists. It uses unique, specially designed picture … Read more

England’s key health and care bodies have today published a report setting out the next steps of a system-wide plan to answer the calls from … Read more

Michelle McCarthy, Reader in Learning Disabilities at the Tizard Centre has just completed an independent research project commissioned and funded by the NIHR, School for … Read more

We were sad to learn of the death of Professor Barbara Tizard on January 4th 2015. She was the wife of Jack Tizard, after whom … Read more

Dr Michelle McCarthy, Reader in Learning Disabilities, will be presenting her findings following on  from her 2 year research project on domestic violence,  funded by … Read more

We are delighted to announce that Allan Finn, one of the project advisors on Living in Fear (a big lottery funded project carried out by … Read more

Recent national media and politician’s rhetoric labelling benefit recipients as scroungers has started to erode some of the important gains made by the disability movement … Read more

Seminar by Professor Peter McGill, Co-Director of the Tizard centre. Play Seminar  

Dr Janet Carr, Honorary Senior Researcher at Tizard, is currently finalising the most recent findings of her 50 year old research study with people with … Read more