My New Media Life: Exhibitors
Better Living Through Technology:
A website and a training service - will demonstrate the technologies used by people with a wide range of disabilities to access computers. Equipment will include alternative mice, keyboards and switches. Visitors will have the opportunity to try some hands-on use of assistive technologies such as head control and on-screen keyboards.
www.bltt.org
Common Knowledge:
An opportunity for people to join the Common Knowledge social network, to try out CKUK online resources and meet some of the team that have pioneered this work in Glasgow.
www.ckglasgow.org.uk
CDSM and the Swansea Community Lives Consortium:
CDSM will demonstrate its “People & Places” online social network designed for people with learning disabilities. Staff and service users from the Swansea Community Lives Consortium will share their experience of using the software
www.cdsm.co.uk
HFT:
Social care providers HFT will demonstrate their Big Lottery Fund project developing the use of multimedia technology for person-centred planning. The stand will feature literature about HFT and their work involving new media and Assistive Technology. HFT will have a calendar available to view, that features photographs taken by people involved in the project.
www.hft.org.uk
Mencap:
Staff and service users from Mencap showing how they use digital video production with people with learning disabilities to include them in the development and delivery of training for best practice support. Video shooting and editing work in progress on the subject of understanding ‘challenging behaviour’ will be demonstrated by this inclusive production team.
www.mencap.org.uk
The Rix Centre/London Borough of Newham
The Rix Centre’s display stand will feature The Newham Easy Read website, produced with the local authority team and service users as part of ‘The Road Ahead’ research programme with SCIE. Some of the project’s 40 ‘easy-build’ websites will be shown by the people with learning disabilities who created them alongside support staff.
www.newhameasyread.org
www.rixcentre.org
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
SCIE will be explaining its role in UK social care and demonstrating its new e-learning resources for social care students and practitioners.
www.scie.org.uk
United Response:
United Response will show its multimedia person-centred communication tool, “About Me and My Life” which it has created for people with learning disabilities. The resource is to help people with communication impairments or people who prefer to use visual or audio resources to communicate things that are important to them.
www.unitedresponse.org.uk
