Monthly Archives: March 2015

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 autism awareness library exhibition and rainbow spectrum quiz, where you can see how far you … Continue reading →

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 six different schools across the region all providing for young people aged 16-20 with intellectual … Continue reading →

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 talk “People with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges”.  The talk proved particularly popular with around … Continue reading →

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 holding a one day Conference on April 17th 2015, 0930am to 1pm in Maidstone, Kent. … Continue reading →

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 access to supporting papers. Vivien Cooper, OBE, Chief Executive of the Challenging Behaviour Foundation will be … Continue reading →

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 and sexually harmful behaviour.  The conference “Shaping the Future” proved very popular, no doubt because … Continue reading →

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 NICE have completed for people with learning disabilities.  The final touches are currently being made … Continue reading →