The European Association of Persons with Intellectual Disability and their Families

Present structures deny access to information to a large number of people with limited skills in reading, writing or understanding. The reasons why people have problems with literacy and comprehension vary and those who may be affected include people with learning disability and other disabilities, people who received a limited formal education, people with social problems and immigrants whose mother tongue is not the official language of their adopted country. In most European countries little has been done and organisations and people such as editors, writers, teachers and translators seldom have guidelines on how to produce texts and summaries which are easy to read and understand.