Category Archives: Tizard

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 in teaching. Students nominate and then vote on those who they feel have excelled in … Continue reading →

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 of life of the people with autism they are currently working with.  

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 Intellectual Disabilities conference in Oxford. The keynote formed part of a whole day on sexuality … Continue reading →

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’, for young people with learning disabilities who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour.  The project … Continue reading →

Kent & Medway NHS are holding a Learning Disability Practice Forum on Thursday 28th May 2015 1400 – 1600hrs.  The speaker for the event is Prof Peter McGill, Tizard Centre, “Preventing challenging behaviour of adults with complex needs in supported … Continue reading →

‘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.  The programme will be looking at the roles of lawyers, families and experts and includes … Continue reading →

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 NICE Guideline Development Group for people with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges.  The purpose … Continue reading →

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 a communication symbols tool.  It is based on extensive research and designed by Speech and Language … Continue reading →

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 be hosting this event at the Royal Society of Medicine on the 26th May 2015. … Continue reading →

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 →