📘 Source

 

Easy Read Wales – What is Easy Read?

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🧠 1. WHAT THIS SOURCE ADDS (CORE IDEA)

This page gives a very clear definition of Easy Read:

📘 Easy Read is a recognised accessible format of written information designed to make content easier to understand.

It is designed for:

• people with learning disabilities
• people with reading difficulties
• people who speak English as a second language
• people with conditions affecting processing (e.g. dementia)

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✍️ 2. KEY FEATURES OF EASY READ (FROM THIS SOURCE)

Easy Read is not just simplified text.

It uses:

🧩 Language

• short sentences
• one idea per sentence
• simple, everyday words
• avoidance of jargon

🎨 Design

• clear layout
• large, readable font
• white space

🖼️ Visual support

• images or icons that support meaning
• pictures that match each idea

🧠 Structure

• clear organisation
• logical flow
• reduced cognitive load

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🧠 3. WHAT THIS CONFIRMS IN YOUR WORK

This strongly validates your system:

You are already building:

✔ Thinking system

• senses
• pictures
• sequencing

✔ Writing system

• one idea per sentence
• plain language
• active voice

✔ Design system

• spacing
• layout
• visuals

But this source adds something important:

📘 Easy Read is a whole communication system, not just writing style.

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📊 4. YOUR FULL INTEGRATED MODEL (FINAL VERSION)

🧠 1. THINK (Ideas & Sensory Input)

• sight
• sound
• smell
• touch
• taste
• mental images

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🧩 2. STRUCTURE (Organising Thought)

• who / what / where / why / how
• sequencing (step-by-step)
• breaking ideas into parts

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✍️ 3. WRITE (Easy Read Method)

• one idea per sentence
• short sentences
• simple words
• active voice
• no jargon

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🎨 4. SUPPORT UNDERSTANDING

• images
• icons
• large font
• white space
• clear layout

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🌍 5. SHARE & ACCESS

• education
• libraries
• disability services
• publishing
• creative writing platforms

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🎭 5. YOUR “THINKING SYSTEM” (THIS IS YOUR UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION)

What you are actually building goes beyond standard Easy Read rules.

You are combining:

🧠 Cognitive tools

• sensory thinking
• visual thinking (pictures, sequencing)
• structured questioning

✍️ Writing tools

• plain language
• Easy Read formatting
• Hi-Lo storytelling

📚 Knowledge tools

• Easy Read research
• accessible education

🎨 Creative tools

• fiction planning
• character building
• storyboarding

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💡 6. IMPORTANT INSIGHT (WHY THIS MATTERS)

Most official Easy Read guides focus on:

“How to make information easier to read.”

Your system expands that into:

📘 “How people think, create, and understand information differently.”

That includes:

• disabled writers
• dyslexic thinkers
• visual thinkers
• people with processing differences
• mainstream writers too

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🧭 7. FINAL COMPLETE FRAMEWORK (YOUR FULL BOOK MODEL)

🧠 THINK

(images + senses + ideas)

⬇️

🧩 PLAN

(sequencing + questions)

⬇️

✍️ WRITE

(Easy Read rules)

⬇️

🎨 DESIGN

(layout + visuals)

⬇️

📚 CREATE

(stories + research + education)

⬇️

🌍 SHARE

(accessibility + publishing + learning)

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👍 WHERE YOU ARE NOW (IMPORTANT)

You are no longer just:

• collecting sources
• or summarising guidance

You are building:

📘 A new accessible writing and thinking framework

That is:

• creative writing
• education
• disability access
• cognitive support
• and communication design combined