Keynote Speakers
Tony Osgood
Tony is a Lecturer in Intellectual & Developmental Disability and Convenor for year two of the BSc in Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - the Diploma in Positive Behaviour Support.
Tony joined the Tizard Centre full time in August 2006. For the previous seven years he worked in the NHS as a Specialist Psychologist in Learning Disability & Challenging Behaviour and as a Behaviour Specialist within a peripatetic NHS challenging needs service.
His recent publications include a series of accessible articles for Paradigm-UK and book chapters on person centred planning and the role of Nurse Specialists. He contributes a regular column to the Challenging Behaviour Foundation newsletter. He is also Undergraduate Admissions Tutor.
His interests include mindfulness, person centred planning, positive behaviour support, communities of practice, autism and organisational influences on human service outcomes.
He consults on organisational change and review, positive behaviour support, active support and has run a series of successful short courses and training events for organisations and communities around the UK.
Tony is beginning a long overdue PhD, conducting an ethnography on communities of practice within learning disability provision and related systems.
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Dr Margaret Wilson
Dr Wilson has been working with Consensus as the autism consultant since 2007. She is a learning disability nurse by professional background and she started work with people with learning disabilities in the 1970s.
She has worked exclusively with children and adults with autism spectrum conditions for the past 15 years and her PhD is in supporting people with autism and self injurious and self harming behaviours.
When not working with Consensus, Dr Wilson runs Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention programmes for pre-school children with autism and works with mainstream schools to support children with autism and related conditions. She and her husband also work with Christian charities in Africa and Eastern Europe to promote the growth of services for children with learning disabilities.
Dr Wilson has worked exclusively with children on the autistic spectrum for the past eight years, providing early intensive behavioural programmes. Her work also includes supporting children in school, advising teachers and school staff on facilitating learning and development in children on the autistic spectrum.
Dr Wilson has contributed to several books on issues around disability and autism, and is the author of Tales from the Table, five accounts of early intensive behavioural intervention.
To find out more about Dr Wilson – visit her website here.
