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Simple as This
is a guide in easy-to-understand language
on how to use Easy Language.

Simple as This guide is free to download.

Easy Language
is a resource that facilitates
access to information.

Why?

People should get information
in a way that is easy to understand.

Easy Language combats:
– misinformation
– inequality

Easy Language promotes:
– autonomy
– citizenship.

Easy Language is a right
guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities.

How?

In Simple as This guide
you will learn how to:
– write Easy
– design Easy
– validate with your focus audience.

You can find other ways
to refer to Easy Language:
– Plain language
– Simple language
– Easy to read
– Easy-to-understand communication.

All of them are useful
to make information
more accessible.

Who?

Patricia Almeida organized
Simple as This, How to use Easy Language
with the collaboration of:
– Lara Pozzobon
– Jessica Figueiredo
– Juliana Righini
– Patricia Roedel
– Alex Duarte
– Laís Costa
– Cecilia Quental
– Sheina Tabak.

Simple as This guide
was first published in Portuguese
by the National School of Public Health
of Fiocruz in Brazil.

Members of the Easy Language International Network (ELIN)
helped with the translation and adaptation to English:

Sandra Marques and Celia Sousa from Portugal
Cathy Basterfield from Australia
Ulla Bohman from Sweden
reviewed and suggested
adjustments to the guide.

Patricia Almeida is also part of ELIN.

Where?

Simple as This – How to use Easy Language
will be presented at the Zero Project International Conference
on innovation for disability inclusion
from 21 to 23 February at UN Headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

Simple as This guide is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution License
Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International.

That means you are free to:
– share
– adapt.

You must:
– give credit
– provide a link to the license
– indicate if changes were made .

You may not:
sell the material.

For more information on the license
access https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en

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You can download Simple as This in English for free here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iOIBGDsblL2EEdB57flLDGJPQc96HvI9/view

Simple as This – How to Use Easy Language – Live presentation at the World Down Syndrome Congress 2024, in Brisbane, Australia.

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Simple as This – How to Use Easy Language – PDF presentation at the World Down Syndrome Congress 2024, in Brisbane, Australia.

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