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Did you know?
Fact!
44% of Australian adults(15-65 years old) do not have the literacy skills to read a range of day to day reading tasks. This equates to 7.3 million adult Australians in 2013.
Read more: ABS Data 2013 #4228 , OECD PIAAC Data 2013, 2016
Translating documents into Easy English
In 2021, Cathy was invited on to the Speak Up: Speech Pathology Australia Podcast.
She discusses the significant differences between Easy English and Easy Read, and the importance of this to the work of speech pathologists. Host Anneke Flinn. Also available at: Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Discussion about people with low literacy
The Drum ABC – February 18 2020.
With Julia Baird, Sam Conner and Christine Ryan.
Zero Conference 2023
At the UN, February 2023.
A summary of Cathy’s presentation.
5 – 8 August, 2024, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Easy English program to be uploaded.
We are doing a Round Table on Accessible Information – Where do we need quality accessible information? Monday 6.30 pm in Chicago 8. Level 4.
and
a paper Easy Read using a universal design paradigm. Can more people with intellectual disability be included? Monday 12 noon in Ontario. Level 2.
If you are attending, stop by our exhibit number 6 and say hello.
Read our recent blogpost
Insights from Valuable 500. Why you need Easy English for your business
Our services
We create Easy English content from your original document.
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Learn to write your own Easy English documents.
Federal government preferred provider status for Easy English training.
Available face-to-face and online.
Personalised Easy English training. Choose your own dates.
Federal government preferred provider status for Easy English training.
Available face-to-face and online.
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Regular series of short webinars about Easy English.
Available face-to-face and online.
Key Word Sign workshops and tutorials. Available on request.
Available face-to-face and online.
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