Roadmap For New Media And Social Care

Roadmap for new media and social care for people with a learning disability

Andy Minnion

My New Media Life - 1st October 2008

Roadmap

• Starting point - where are we now ?

• Origins - where did we come from ?

• Travelers - who’s on board ?

• Route - how to get there - and obstacles ?

• Destination - where are we headed ?

Roadmap for new media & social care

Starting point - new media now

• Ubiquity • Accessibility • Participation • Literacy


• Affordable

• Easy to use

• Integral to our daily

lives

• Global distribution

Ubiquity - multimedia everywhere!

Universal communication technologies…?


• Organising thoughts• Memory• Communication• Socialisation• Independence

Our daily lives…


• Organising thoughts - personal organiser…

• Memory - reminders, directory, diary, timetable… • Communication - phone, text, multimedia messaging..

• Socialisation – social network, photo sharing, mobile..

• Independence – mobile, support network, eCV…

Our daily lives…


Assistive technology for all…


Organising thoughtspersonal organisers

Communication multimedia profile,

messaging

Memoryreminder, timetable,

directory

Socialisation social network,

album

Independence my e CV,

Mobile GPS

• Computers, Internet, Cameras etc.

• Standards, guidelines, legislation & campaigns

• Marketing priorities

…ease of use or lots of function?

• ‘Demographics’

Accessible for all ?


Digital inclusion… crossing the digital divide

• TV interview - role play

• Presenting to camera,

rehearsal & performance

• Experienced consumers

• My preferred

communication

Multimedia literacy


A level playing field

• Digital cameras - multimedia

recorders

• User-generated content

• Social networking, personal

profiles, online publishing -

YouTube, MySpace, Flickr,

Facebook…

• Mobile phones - camera in your

pocket

Multimedia participation


‘My media’ – from consumers to producers

Multimedia advocates

People with learning disabilities, social carers, supporters,

teachers, nurses, families and friends

• self advocates

• peer advocates

• citizen advocates

• professional advocates

• political advocates


Ownership, good support and reflective practice

‘New media professionals’

social carers, supporters, teachers, nurses, families and friends


Consent, security, truth, and bias?

Skills, roles and responsibilities:

• Journalists

• Editors

• Directors

• Commissioners

• Audiences and outlets

Origins• Domestic photography - sharing our lives and memories

• Youth & community media - advocacy and identity

• Drama therapy - roles and performance, physical theatre

• Speech & Language Therapy - assisted communication

• Self -advocacy movement - speaking up as ‘People First’

• Oral Histories - telling life-stories, social histories of learning disability


Different approaches, agendas and benefits


My communication aid

My life story

My Person Centred Plan

Record of achievement

My Curriculum Vitae My social

network

My personal organiser

Health Action Plan

Driver ?

Is the ‘person at the centre’ also at the controls?


Assisted living and telecare

Mental Capacity Act

Evidence - based social care

Distance learning

Personalisation of services

Self-directed services

Disability Discrimination Act

Valuing People

Drivers

Tools to translate values into action

Direction

• Access, ownership and control of my new media

• Cross agency & cross sector use of the inclusive ‘language’ of multimedia

• Integration with professional practices

• Social & health care

• Education

• Employment

• Housing etc.

• … plus friends and families


New media, new tools, new support frameworks

Route….• Defining best practice

• Standards, guidelines, ethical frameworks

• Training for multimedia advocacy in communication, advocacy, support, representation…and technical process!

• Baseline skills and equipment

• Organisational change


Destination….

Social inclusion for

people with learning

disabilities

‘Better living through technology’


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