UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER
Jamie Graham has been awarded the prestigious HD Mooney Memorial Prize.
Sponsored annually by Baker Tilly Mooney Moore, the prize is given to the best overall second year student in Financial Accounting on the BSc Accounting programme at the Ulster Business School, Jordanstown.
Joanne Small, Partner at Baker Tilly Mooney Moore, presented Jamie with his award at the prize giving ceremony. She said:
“I would like to congratulate Jamie on his success. Within Baker Tilly Mooney Moore we are committed to the training and development of staff and through sponsoring this award we aim to provide practical support to students.”
Course Director Gregory McGrath said
“This award recognises the commitment and enthusiasm that Jamie has shown throughout the year. We are pleased that Baker Tilly Mooney Moore has once again sponsored this award, partnerships between employers and the University such as this are essential for students as they start making their career choices.”
QUEEN’S
QUEEN’S has unveiled a new treatment for children with autism, which has the potential to significantly improve their learning and academic skills.
Currently, more than 15,000 families in Northern Ireland are affected directly by Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Precision Teaching, a method which teaches children not only how to behave, but how often, how fast, and for how long, is just one of many new studies and intervention methods for Autism Spectrum Disorders to be unveiled at Queen’s as part of its Autism Research and Treatment (QUART) Forum’s Ambitious for All: Autism, Behaviour and Learning event.
Precision Teaching has been shown to be highly effective in helping children and young people with Autism and their typically developing peers achieve their potential in mainstream schools.
Almost 150 researchers from around the world, including keynote speakers from the UK and Greece, will gather at Queen’s to discuss Precision Teaching, Intensive Early Behavioural Interventions and other therapies based on Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), as the most effective evidence-based framework for treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Professor Karola Dillenburger, from the Centre for Behaviour Analysis in Queen’s School of Education, said: “Autism is now diagnosed in 1 in 88 individuals. This means that more than 15,000 families in Northern Ireland are affected directly. 4,000 children with Autism Spectrum Disorders are of school-age and the provision of evidence-based behaviour analytic treatment is vital to ensure that these children are enabled to lead fulfilled lives. At today’s conference we will hear from international experts in a number of potentially invaluable treatments.
“Precision teaching does not only benefit children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, it helps all children to overcome barriers to learning and achieve their full potential and is therefore of interest not only to teachers of children with ASD but to all educators. We will also hear about the innovative work that is carried out across Europe in Autism Spectrum Disorders Centres in Germany, Greece, France and Spain, where evidence-based early Intensive Behaviour Analytic Intervention has lead to vast improvements in the children’s skill base, and allows for many more children to be main streamed.”