Category Archives: Tizard

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 where she presented her PhD poster ‘Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities who display harmful sexual behaviours: … Continue reading →

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 aspects of their research such as commenting on information sheets, questionnaires, conference abstracts, accessible reports … Continue reading →

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 for this.  To this end we would be grateful if you would complete a short … Continue reading →

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, improving skilled support, assessing needs, post-diagnostic support, experiences of hate crime and discrimination.  This is … Continue reading →

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 held on Sunday 28th June from 10.00-18.00 hrs in the Aphra Theatre, Grimond Building, University … Continue reading →

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 their families. Dr Carr, a pioneering psychologist, undertook a longitudinal study which began with 54 … Continue reading →

“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 online:  https://kar.kent.ac.uk/48663/ People with severe and profound intellectual disabilities often spend a substantial time isolated and … Continue reading →

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 schools. Behaviour that challenges is cited as one of the main reasons why they are … Continue reading →

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 regional association in Larisa, Greece’s 4th biggest city.  The Association held a very successful conference … Continue reading →

A positive behavioural support framework has been launched today which can be downloaded for free.   The PBS coalition, a subgroup of the Challenging Behaviour National Strategy Group, has developed a competence framework with the help of funding from Skills … Continue reading →