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RAP Week 8 April 24 th 2012

Presented by: IDS@UL & The Department of Clinical Therapies. RAP Week 8 April 24 th 2012. Introducing RAP. Research Active Programme is a research training opportunity for people with intellectual disability. RAP is designed to:

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RAP Week 8 April 24 th 2012

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  1. Presented by: IDS@UL & The Department of Clinical Therapies RAP Week 8April 24th2012

  2. Introducing RAP Research Active Programme is a research training opportunity for people with intellectual disability. RAP is designed to: • Promote the awareness of individual and group rights in research under the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities • Enable people with disabilities to become co-researchers and to eventually do independent research • Establish a core group of co-researchers to work alongside members of Intellectual Disability Studies @UL • Create an opportunity for people with intellectual disabilities to participate in the context of 3rd level education

  3. Plan for the Day

  4. 8 Week Plan

  5. Week 1 What is Research? Research means: • Finding things you want to know about (like family trees) • Finding out about a topic that is close to your heart like work or laws about people with disabilities • Finding a job • Asking about boyfriends, girlfriends and relationships • Using a laptop to look for things; Using Google. • Having a meeting • Asking someone to help when you are stuck on something (like how to get money from the bank) • Checking the newspaper • Getting information together for a tv programme

  6. Research Example… 1. What do we want to know: What did you learn in RAP? 2. Agree to be in study 3. Talk to people 4. Find an answer 5. Tell people what we learned

  7. Week 2 Making Research Work for you

  8. Week 3Your Rights in Research

  9. How does an idea get approved?

  10. RAP Example

  11. Weeks 4& 5Being a Co-researcher: Talking to People Part 1: Warm up Part 2: Talk Part 3: Wrap up

  12. Sample Interview Questions

  13. Week 6Getting Ready to Talk About What We Learned 1. Invitations2. Certificate3. Draft slides4. Draft budget

  14. Week 7Getting Ready: Practicing our Talk • Making choices together • Made slides about what we liked about having each person in the group • Practiced our talk for today • Did interviews about what we liked and didn’t like about RAP

  15. Week 8 Celebrate by…Telling people about your work

  16. What I learned so far… • How to use more pictures on consent forms • Better ways to ask questions • How much time it takes to take an idea and make it into a plan • How hard it is to fit lots of ideas into a short time • How important coffee break is! Nancy Salmon

  17. RAP What we learned in RAP Using computers in research Assent / Dissent Student names were inserted here

  18. What we learned….. How Universities have to go about getting a project off the ground Learned about Ethics Rights and responsibilities in a project Learned how to interview properly Learned how to put together a questionnaire How to work in a big group of strangers Picked up ideas for research Brian , Joe and Martina

  19. What we learned in RAP… How to interview people How to do research as a group To tell people what research is How to do parts of research by yourself How to find a research question Feedback what we have talked about Good communication talking one at a time speaking loud enough for all to hear listening to others Students Names were inserted here

  20. What we learned in RAP Finding research questions Looking at research with older people Did work on computers Ethics Agree and disagree Interviews –asking questions Students Names here

  21. Student 1 Student 2 Student 3

  22. RAP: What we learned up until now Student 3 Student 2: Using pictures to ask questions Student1: Doing interviews Student 4

  23. Award Certificates

  24. Student Name Photo of student placed here • Heis really friendly • He always makes sure everyone is included • He’s a good talker and a good listener • He is kind and nice man • He likes to be involved • He’s always smiling

  25. What we did today

  26. Looking Ahead Summer 2012 • AOTI presentation April 2012 • Write paper about what trainees thought of RAP • Write a paper about the weekly session plans • Apply for funding to support RAP for next 2 years Autumn 2012 • Run RAP again at UL with 3 peer mentors Spring 2013 • Run RAP at community location Autumn 2013 • Embed RAP in a Certificate in Clinical Therapies

  27. Questions? www.idsatul@posterous.com

  28. Celebration Thanks for coming and safe home!

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