Category Archives: Tizard

Help us to pilot a new questionnaire designed to measure the quality of life of people with learning disabilities or autism who use adult social care services. This project is a pilot of a new questionnaire that is part of … Continue reading →

The next SPELL Framework Training is being held on the 3/4/5 July 2017 at the University of Kent, Canterbury campus.  Prof Julie Beadle-Brown will be delivering the training aimed at understanding and supporting children and adults on the autism spectrum … Continue reading →

Gabor Petri, PhD student with the Tizard Centre, has just completed an interview for an independent Hungarian blog carried out with Dr Michelle McCarthy, covering her work on domestic violence and women with learning disabilities. The blog has proved a … Continue reading →

One of our post grad students and autistic self advocate, George Watts is trying to contact other autistic adults in Kent to ask if they would be interested in contributing their photos to a film about happiness, to raise awareness of the … Continue reading →

In this research project we wanted to hear directly from women with learning disabilities themselves about the domestic violence they had experienced. (We also explored the views, attitudes and responses of the Police and health and social care professionals and … Continue reading →

Monday 20 February 2017 – Prof Angela Hassiotis will be giving the Tizard lecture “Service level delivery of positive behaviour support: what does the evidence suggest?” PBS is an established and widely used treatment for challenging behaviour with additional gains in quality … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre rounded up the year with their Centre Meeting today with plenty to discuss going forward but with also much to celebrate regarding staff achievements over the past year.  The following represents some of the high points of … Continue reading →

Prof Glynis Murphy presented the early results of the OFFSCA-ID research to Kent & Medway Partnership Trusts (November 2016). The project involved following up men with learning disabilities who had been in prison. The research found the men were very unsupported when they … Continue reading →

A quick reminder to you all that ‘My feral heart” is showing this Saturday (10 Dec) at 15:00 hrs in the Gulbenkian cinema. A sudden bereavement throws Luke, a fiercely independent young man with Down’s syndrome, into a daunting new … Continue reading →

Melina Malli (PhD student) and Prof Rachel Forrester-Jones have recently published an article looking at the attitudes of adolescents towards their peers with Tourette’s syndrome (Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities). The article is available on the Tourettes action blog … Continue reading →