Past Projects
’Following the Road Ahead’ reviewed the available websites featuring guidance for people with learning disabilities and their families around transition. The project went on to assess the feasibility of using ‘easy-build’ websites and digital cameras with young people to create accessible online advice through a series of pilot workshops with North Somerset People First. The resulting website can be found at www.teenagelife.org
Project @pple was a major collaborative research programme led by the Rix Centre with participation from Mencap, Macromedia, Xtensis and Universities of Central London (UCL) and East Anglia (UEA) in which we researched accessibility and participation in e learning and the web for people with learning disabilities. The Project entailed development and trial of an online ‘Virtual Learning Environment’ with a school and college in the West Midlands. A report was produced to highlight the benefits and obstacles that people with learning disabilities experience in use of new media and representation was made to the World Wide Web Consortium Accessibility Initiative about the special issues faced by this user group. The Project was funded by the ESRC and DTI through the ‘PACCIT’ programme.
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Trans-active a two year project that ran from 2002 - 2004, that pioneered the use of ‘easy-build’ e folios with learners with learning disabilities on transition themes. Trans-active is available as a learning pack from Mencap and over 100 different schools and transition projects have subscribed to this innovative package for tackling transition issues with young people. The Trans-active website features uniquely accessible content for users with learning disabilities, developed by the Rix Centre in its early years.
Find out more about Trans-active at www.trans-active.org.uk
The Rix Centre has worked in the international arena with Inclusion International, umbrella groups for intellectual disability with whom we affiliate. Our early projects explored use of multimedia for accessible information sharing and went on to apply user-generated content as a dynamic means of involving people with learning disabilities from various language communities in collaborative self-advocacy work.
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