Dear all,

 

Please see information below about a webinar hosted virtually (with public access) at Imperial College.  I hope you find this webinar useful and please do send to your contacts researching similar and relevant fields.

 

Please see details below and find a link to the seminar. In addition Dr Oliver will be taking questions in a live Q&A session via Skype tomorrow 4 December 2012 from 13:00-15:00 UK GMT , the Skype name for the discussion is 'patriciasport' and Dr Oliver is based in the USA. Please tell those joining the discussions to mention the 'Disability History Month' in their Skype request so Dr Oliver can accept you/them for the discussions.

 

Title: Overcoming the difficulties in developing evidence-based approaches for learning disability

Link to webinar: http://panopto.imperial.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=18156e6f-8950-4fc0-9b2d-d10e862c2fb3

 

Dr Oliver will speak of her research undertaken since the beginning of the 21st century, to overcome the difficulties in conducting evidence based research in the field of Learning Disability. She will be citing examples of various research studies and their specific ethical and methodological solutions developed to overcome the difficulties. Examples include a paper for the Lancet 2008 about Aggressive Challenging Behaviour (ACB) for People with Learning Disability.

This event is part of Disability History Month 2012. To find out more about other events at Imperial, visit the Equalities Unit events page.

 

Best wishes,

Leyla

 

 

Leyla Okhai

Imperial College London

Equalities Unit

Rm 312, Level 3, Sherfield Bldg

South Kensington Campus

London SW7 2AZ

 

Tel:  020 7594 2887

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Web: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/equality