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Putting the tools in their hands
- Author:
- KELLY Seán
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 23(1), Autumn 2009, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
This article outlines Clickstart, an innovative project run jointly by the Rix Centre and Ellingham Employment Services. It is described as a multi-media advocacy giving people with learning difficulties the opportunity to create their own accessible websites. Clickstart describes what it provides as ‘technical support on multimedia advocacy classes’. The project supports people from 10 boroughs, and also runs courses, and across the 10 boroughs they have people from 40 different groups who have set up over 100 accessible wiki-sites in the last 6 months. This article describes the processes involved in setting up the project, the user testing, training other groups, the creation of media for upload, and ends with a description of the methods used to promote the work.
A capital idea
- Author:
- MACKENZIE Alick
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(9), November 2010, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article describes the work of enabledlondon, which has grown from an online leisure resource into a consultancy aimed at creating jobs and making a full life more accessible to people with learning disabilities and other excluded groups. As the number and nature of the projects taken on by enabledlondon has developed this has led to the opportunity to engage more people with different skills in paid freelance work. The initiative has a small group of people with learning disabilities who they call on to discuss how a project is shaping up, share thoughts with, and learn from, in order to shape the finished product. Other consultants test the product at the end. The article describes a few of the projects: Enabled Maps produces maps which are set out as photo story; Word Bank provides animations and explanations of difficult words; and the recruitment of a new member of staff has encouraged the setting up of a photography service.
Using e-learning to develop service-wide competence in positive behavioural support
- Authors:
- ALLEN David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 13(2), August 2008, pp.3-9.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Improving the competence of frontline services to support people who challenge has long been recognised as a key service objective. This article describes how web-based e-learning technology is being used to achieve widespread dissemination of knowledge and skill about positive behavioural support. The drivers for this development are described, together with an account of the historical development of the programme. The advantages of using this medium are outlined, and the benefits of a whole-organisation approach to learning are identified.
Telling stories
- Author:
- O’TOOLE Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 12(1), December 2011, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article describes how computer software can enable people with learning disabilities who do not communicate in traditional ways tell their own stories. The “Multi-me” beta software is currently being piloted around the UK. The trials aim to engage a diverse range of participants including children and young people with special educational needs, adults and older people with autistic spectrum disorders and learning disabilities, as well as those who are hearing impaired. Multi-me is a new online software tool that can help anyone to communicate and plan their lives. The software is built around the idea of people telling and sharing their own stories and getting involved in each other’s’ project planning online. Multi-me is especially useful for people who find other ways of communication less easy and need some support to help them live happily and achieve outcomes. It provides the perfect framework to enable user engagement and multi-agency collaboration across social care, health, education and home based settings.
A story to tell
- Author:
- HUGHES Zoe
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(6), July 2010, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article describes a storytelling project that impacts on both people and services. The project encourages relationships and helps to keep memories alive for older people with learning disabilities. Funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences, and Marie Curie Actions, the project aims to make people’s stories available in an online archive as well as in text, audio and visual formats. The author envisages that the digital archive will evolve into a larger repository of stories, and include stories from family members. This will allow the archive to provide a first-hand look at what life is like for everyone involved in supporting older people with learning disabilities.
Meeting the social and emotional aspirations of vulnerable young people
- Author:
- LEMOS Gerard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 19(4), May 2006, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Services for vulnerable people have focused on housing and supporting people into training and employment. But a research project showed that social and emotional aspirations are also, if not more, important to them. The author describes SupportActionNet, a website which evolved from a project to help practitioners meet these needs.