Everything you need to create Easy Read.
Language
Learn to use accessible language for your Easy Read audience. Our certified practising speech pathologists are specialists in literacy disabilities, and language development. By attending our training, you'll learn about common literacy difficulties for adults, and how to choose the right words to reach more readers.
Images
Get confident selecting accessible and inclusive images for your Easy Read audience. Research shows more people will understand and remember your message when images are incorporated. This interactive part of our training gives you the skills to choose accessible images for people with low literacy and disability.
Design
Discover how accessible and inclusive design can support your audience to better engage with your written communications. Our experienced trainers demonstrate how to develop an accessible layout in line with the Easy Read style. We also explore a number of helpful online tools for designing Easy Read documents.
Production and distribution
In this training, we teach participants how to produce Easy Read in-house. Once your Easy Read information is ready, it is important to publish your document in accessible places to ensure it reaches your intended audience with low English literacy. Our trainers will highlight a number of ways to successfully share your Easy Read with your target audience.
Trust experience
Our experienced trainers have been co-designing Easy Read with people with intellectual disability for many years, developing
industry best-practice Easy Read across sectors including banking, energy, essential services, healthcare, non-profit and government services. Choose Embrace Access to create truly accessible written information.
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Who benefits?
In Australia, 44% of people have low English literacy (ABS, 2013).
Easy Read can promote the inclusion of:
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people with cognitive-communication differences
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people with mental health support needs
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culturally & linguistically diverse people
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seniors and people with Dementia
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people with intellectual disability
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people with learning disability
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many neurodivergent people
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many D/deaf people
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visual learners.
Accessible information is a human right.
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Christina Parasyn
Tautua Human Development Program
"I absolutely loved the training. It made sense. It was clear and provided such tailored useful tips to our work. The team at Tautua found it so useful and can see its relevance in every aspect of their work."
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Victoria Tanner
Glen Eira City Council
"I thoroughly enjoyed your course Ruby, the information was relevant and applicable, I'll be recommending to my colleagues. Learnt a lot along the way and value you sharing the resources. Thank you."
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Disability Advocacy New South Wales
"After the training I feel confident to create these documents using knowledge I learnt. I am aware of publicly available resources, and the do's and dont's of Easy Read documents. The most practical and helpful external training I have been to in this industry."
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Max Wasley
Pacific Labour Mobility Support Program
Embrace Access provided us excellent training on creating Easy Read content. The framework and lessons go much deeper than what you can read online and have already been directly impactful on our work already.
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Joe-Anne Kek-Pamenter
Griffith University
"I really appreciated your clear and approachable presentation style – it made the session easy to follow, and the format felt user-friendly and accessible. I found the content genuinely interesting and walked away feeling like I learned a lot in just three hours."
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Honour Marino
ABC Radio
I attended Ruby's presentation about Easy Read and Plain English. Her presentation was engaging and contained heaps of practical hints and tips to transform my business communications. Would definitely recommend.