ASSISTID Welcome Event

A Welcome Event was held for the first cohort of ASSISTID Fellows at the Daughters of Charity campus at St Joseph’s Centre, Clonsilla. Sr Zoe Killeen, Director of RESPECT welcomed the Fellows and wished them well as they embarked on their research.

Report from the AAATE conference in Budapest

The Association for the Advancement of Assistive technology in Europe held its bi-annual conference in Budapest on 8th-11th September in Budapest. The conference was attended by more than 350 academics, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists.

New partners join DOCTRID Research Institute

The DOCTRID Research Institute is delighted to welcome 2 new partners, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) and Designability at Bath Institute of Medical Engineering. We were joined by President Denis Cummins of DkIT and Dr Nigel Harris from Designability at the DOCTRID IV Conference in Belfast on 27th April 2015 where both partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the DOCTRID Research Institute. 

Update from DOCTRID IV International Conference

Society is moving towards a social model of intellectual disability, where the ability of people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to contribute to society is being recognised, and the barriers which prevent their full participation in community, education and employment are being identified and removed. 

Rolling Call for ASSISTID proposals until June 30th 2015

Deadline 30th June 2015.

Hegarty Fellow Stacy Clifford Simplican defines a new model of social inclusion

Published in 'Research in Developmental Disabilities'

DOCTRID to host symposium at European conference

DOCTRID are leading the way in research into technologies for disability and autism

DOCTRID IV Conference is coming!

We will address key challenges and future direction of research, policy and care in intellectual disability and autism. Discussions and workshops will be led by international experts in the field from academia, healthcare and service providers. Families, carers and people with intellectual disabilities will also attend to give their voice to the discussion.

Please click here to register.