The Rix Centre
Making new media work for the learning disabilities community
The Rix Centre is a charitable research & development organisation committed to realising the benefits of new media technology to transform the lives of people who have learning disabilities.
There are 1.5 million people with learning disabilities in the UK who experience considerable social exclusion. Alongside their families and supporters they form a significant and often isolated community, which can benefit considerably from the exploitation of new media technologies. Find Out More.
The Rix Centre hosted the first of the borough portal editors training sessions last week for the ‘Click Start’ Project. The day was very successful with 25 people in attendance from across the ten target boroughs.
The sessions for the day were divided into two parts: the first half was an introduction to the project given by Andy Minnion, Director of The Rix Centre, covering the theoretical principles of the project, the second a workshop about putting those into effect. Read More.
Five more graduate from the Rix Centre’s Multimedia Advocacy Course Five more people with learning disabilities, and their supporters, graduated this week from the Rix Centre’s Multimedia Advocacy Course. So far over 1,000 people have graduated from the Rix Centre’s range of Multimedia Advocacy courses.
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First Line employment service re-launched at Grassroots Community Resource Centre, in the Memorial Park, West Ham.
First Line is an employment service organisation that provides support for people with learning disabilities to find voluntary and paid work. The service clients search the internet for job application and have made their own website using the easy-build web templates created by The Rix Centre you can find the site on Newham Easy Read website.
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The Rix Centre took part in the media zone at the “Learning Disabilities Today” Exhibition, that took place at the Business Design Centre in Islington on Thursday 27th of November.
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Click Start: New project launch
The learning disability community to benefit from accessible web site ‘pilot roll out’ across East London boroughs on ‘Click Start’
The learning disability community will benefit from Rix Centre research and development work on a new accessible web site ‘roll out’ in a project called ClickStart in 2009.
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London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education
London Games Research Group
Monday 27th October
The speakers at the seminar presented a collection of research projects on gaming and learning for disabled users. The focus for the evening was the different accessibility needs for disabled user groups and covered users with a wide range of disabilities. The event was hosted at London Knowledge Lab by the London Games Research Group. The London Knowledge Lab is a collaboration between the research centres of the Institute of Education and Birkbeck. The Lab brings together computer and social scientists from a very broad range of fields.
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The Big Tree Blog Launch
The Big Tree blog site is launched. We will be posting info here about the work that we have been developing and software we have made or found that can useful for working with people with learning difficulties. Nick Weldin will be writing about things that are helpful for people with more profound learning difficulties.
