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Becky Hardiman, PhD student at the Tizard Centre is looking for children and parents to help with her research project ” exploring the relationship between cortisol and challenging behaviour in boys with Fragile X syndrome”. For more details regarding participants … Continue reading →

The Tizard Centre hosted a very successful event as part of the University of Kent’s 50th Anniversary celebration weekend.  We were delighted to have Dr Janet Carr, OBE, as our Guest Speaker.  Dr Carr gave a very informative lecture based … Continue reading →

The United Response development team have developed a new communication tool to add to their best practice suite of resources.  This brand new resource has been written by Dr Jill Bradshaw, lecturer in Learning Disability at Tizard.  The communication tool … Continue reading →

The full report on the study of Raising Awareness and Combating Stigma: A Global Review is now available online.  This presents  findings from a review into attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities around the globe, and efforts to improve them in line … Continue reading →

Rebecca Monteleone has been studying for her Masters in Intellectual & Developmental Disability at the Tizard Centre over the last year having won the prestigious Fulbright scholarship, funded by sources in the UK and USA.  This is awarded to American … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that Vivien Cooper, OBE, has been awarded an Honorary University of Kent degree and will receive this in today’s ceremony being held at Canterbury Cathedral. Viv, CEO of the Challenging Behaviour Foundation, a small charity … Continue reading →

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 →