Category Archives: Tizard

Watch the introduction to Mencap’s  series of short films about supporting people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. The video shows some of the best clips from the films, which accompany the Raising our sights how-to guides – a series of … Continue reading →

The House of Lords Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 has published its call for evidence. Chairman of the Committee, Lord Hardie, said: “The Mental Capacity Act has been in force since 2007, and the time is right to … Continue reading →

Therapeutic Approaches for Children and Young People with Intellectual Disability.  Dr Nick Gore, Tizard Centre, will be giving a talk at the Conference taking place on 2nd July 2013 in Durham.  This focused event concentrates on therapeutic working with children … Continue reading →

The CQC are carrying out a consultation paper looking at changes to be made to the way the CQC inspect, regulate and monitor care services.  To this end they have requested feedback to the plans they are developing.  Their mission … Continue reading →

Postgraduates and postdocs are invited to attend a new workshop aimed to cut down on procrastination and to promote concentration.  Whatever you are writing, whether it’s a thesis chapter, grant application, lit review, journal article, research proposal, essay, code, book … Continue reading →

The Autism Show, is taking place in London 14th-15th June and in Manchester 28th -29th June 2013.  The Autism Show is aimed at the growing community of parents, carers, professionals and individuals on the autism spectrum who all too often … Continue reading →

An opportunity for a student to work with a post-doctoral research fellow and closely with the IoP supervisors and team from the BASIS UK Autism at-risk-sibling study, led by Prof Mark Johnson (Birkbeck College).  See: http://www.basisnetwork.org/ Psychiatric and sensory processing difficulties commonly … Continue reading →

Lizzie King,  currently studying for an MSc in Analysis and Intervention in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities at the Tizard Centre, will be offering a beginners class in sign language at a cost of £5 per person.  Lizzie is hoping to … Continue reading →

The Tizard Domestic Violence Project team, involved in developing and running domestic volence awareness work for adults with learning disabilities in partnership with Greenwich Safeguarding Adults Team, Advocacy in Greenwich Services, HER Centre and Oxleas NHS are participating in the … Continue reading →

Jamie Hughes and Becky Hardiman,  PhD students at the Tizard Centre, attended the 39th Annual Association for Behaviour Analysis International (ABAI) Conference in Minneapolis, USA in May 2013. Jamie, alongside Dr Gwen Dwiggins (Summit Autism Services) presented a workshop “24 … Continue reading →