🌎 Worldwide & USA Easy Read and Accessible Information Training

 

For Student Learning Disability Nurses

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✅ What is Easy Read?

• Easy Read uses simple words, short sentences, and pictures or symbols.

• It helps people with learning disabilities, low literacy, or anyone who finds reading hard.

• Easy Read exists worldwide, but training and laws differ by country.

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📘 What does Easy Read training cover?

1. Principles of Accessible Communication

   • Making information clear and easy to understand.

2. Introduction to Neurodiversity

   • People process and understand information differently.

3. Creating Easy Read Materials

   • Plain words, clear structure, supportive images.

4. Legal & Human Rights Requirements

   • UK: Equality Act 2010.

   • USA: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) & Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.

   • Worldwide: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

5. Practical Application

   • Changing hard documents into Easy Read.

   • Developing in-house Easy Read standards.

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👩‍🏫 Who is training for?

• Staff who write or design documents.

• Organizations who want to be inclusive and accessible.

• Professionals working with people with learning disabilities or cognitive difficulties.

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🌐 Key Training Providers (examples)

• USA:

  • The Arc of the United States

  • National Center on Disability and Journalism (for accessible communication)

• UK:

  • Disability Equality Scotland

  • People First

• Worldwide:

  • Inclusion International

  • Access All Areas Productions (UK but works globally)

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📝 Quiz Questions (separate page)

1. What is Easy Read?

2. Name one-way Easy Read helps people understand information.

3. Which law in the USA protects the right to accessible information?

4. Which law in the UK protects this right?

5. Which worldwide convention promotes accessibility?

6. Who can benefit from Easy Read training?

7. Name one Easy Read training provider (USA, UK, or worldwide).