I have come across three main barriers to producing easy information; 1) Lack of understanding of the tangible difference it can make to...

I was running an Easy Read training day earlier this month to a group of people from the Council. I had introduced myself as a person who started out as a support worker, moving swiftly into Self-Advocacy for over a decade, and more recently onto Advocacy and business management. We were halfway around the room, doing “introductions”, and someone piped up; “So, what qualifies you to teach us this?” I was a bit surprised at the direct and ever-so-slightly confrontational comm

Sometimes I am faced with a very substantial "Easy Read"project; perhaps a 50-page strategy for a Local Authority in very small print. It...