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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 →

Exploring the service models available for promoting well-being and positive outcomes for people falling below the threshold for social care support. With the continuation of the recession and the cuts within social care in particular, the threshold at which people … Continue reading →

The SHIEC group (Sustainable Hub of Innovation Employment for People with Complex Needs) met on Monday 21 November 2016 to look at what had been learnt and how the lessons learnt could be moved forward.  Viv Cooper, CEO of the … Continue reading →

Dr Michelle McCarthy, Reader in Learning Disabilities, Tizard Centre, has made a podcast as part of the Spotlight series focusing on disabled people experiencing domestic abuse and the services available to them.  Michelle spoke to Natalie Blagrove about her research … Continue reading →

The Gulbenkian cinema (University of Kent, Canterbury) will be showing the film “My feral heart” on Saturday 10 December at 1500 hrs.  This will be preceded by a short introduction from Square Pegs; a not for profit drama group based in … Continue reading →