Barbara Tizard obituary

Psychologist with a special interest in early child developmentBarbara Tizard, who has died aged 88, was an eminent developmental psychologist. Her exhaustive research was driven by important theoretical questions, but also by her strong determination to make life as good as possible for children.One set of studies, published as Early Childhood Education (1975), Adoption: A Second Chance (1977) and Involving Parents in Nursery and Infant Schools (1983), looked at the long-term effects of growin