I was the first person with a visual impairment as bad as mine to graduate from my university's film production course. I want others to be able to have some of the experiences I was lucky enough to have.
I've recently had the idea of hopefully doing a summer school in partnership with my university, getting children with disabilities into the uni, say for 2 weeks and getting them to make a film, obviously with support.
I'd then maybe look at doing something similar for adults.
If this was offered to you, as something for your child to do one summer, would you take the chance?
Filmmaking teaches some great skills, organization, teamwork, communication etc so even if the participants never went on to make films, at least they'd get some new skills or develop existing ones.
What do you think? I think to start with, it'd be working with children with physical disabilities, or high functioning autism, purely because I know that a lot of the staff at University don't have relevant training, and neither would any student/graduate volunteers.
I think it could become something fantastic.