.

Welcome to the Rix Centre Website

Innovation for learning disability

You can skip to the section you want using the links below

Tower Hamlets Champions become Media Pros

Three service users from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets were selected to work with the Rix Centre as ’Multimedia Champions’ on a project that aims to improve healthcare across the borough for people with learning disabilities.

The three Champions helped the Rix Centre run a series of workshops across the borough for the Tower Hamlets 6 Lives project. During the course of the project the Champs learnt interview techniques and were trained in multimedia advocacy and video production techniques to capture the experiences and points of view of people with learning disabilities. They went on to contribute to the editing process and video post-production which resulted in the creation of a 6 lives Project DVD

The workshops used the Multimedia Advocacy approach to capture the experiences that participants, many with profound disabilities and complex needs, have had using healthcare services in the borough.

With their own experiences of having learning difficulties and living in the borough, the three Champions, Juber, Sadi and Eftihar, were able to bring a unique perspective and richness to the interviewing, filming and editing process. ’We’ve loved coming here’ said Sadi ’we’ve learnt so many new things’. Now that they’ve cut their teeth on media techniques the Champions are determined to take their new skills further. ’I’ll definitely be adding this work to my CV’ said Juber, ’I really enjoyed interviewing people and I want to do more work like this.’ The Champions presented the project’s findings and final DVD to the Tower Hamlets 6 Lives’ Panel in November 2009.