My New Media Life
On October 1st, 2008 at the British Museum. The Rix centre held a conference for managers and directors of social care and others who work with people with learning disabilities.
The Conference showcased how multimedia can be used to help people with learning disabilities. Multimedia allows the learning disability community to realise the aspiration of a personalised service by:
- Making truly person-centred plans
- Accessing information that is easy to understand
- Realising independence with new media support
- Shaping effective support for health, employment and social inclusion.
The conference included presentations by people with learning disabilities and their supporters from across the UK, who shared the innovative ways in which multimedia is improving peoples’ lives and making social care more effective. View the powerpoints
Road Map
The Rix Centre and SCIE have produced the first ‘Road Map’ for the use of multimedia with people with learning disabilities. The guide was presented at the conference.
Exhibition Area
Exhibitors included Mencap, SCIE, HFT and many more...
Futures Room
The Futures Room showcased multimedia applications produced to create practical tools for people with learning disabilities to engage with multimedia content on the web. These are exciting new ways of accessing the web.
