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Let's talk: learning the language in everyday settings
- Authors:
- McCONKEY Roy, PRICE Penny
- Publisher:
- Souvenir Press
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 256p.illus.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at parents worried by their child's slow language development. Presents practical and realistic approaches to the problem, including looking at how language skills develop and how to encourage and teach children to communicate.
The web: access and inclusion for disabled people: a formal investigation conducted by the Disability Rights Commission
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 48p.
This report demonstrates that most websites are inaccessible to many disabled people and fail to satisfy even the most basic standards for accessibility recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium. It is also clear that compliance with the technical guidelines and the use of automated tests are only the first steps towards accessibility: there can be no substitute for involving disabled people themselves in design and testing, and for ensuring that disabled users have the best advice and information available about how to use assistive technology, as well as the access features provided by Web browsers and computer operating systems. Disabled people must frequently overcome additional obstacles before they can enjoy the full range of information, services, entertainment and social interaction offered by the Web: blind people need sites to provide, for example, text as an alternative to images for translation into audible or legible words by specially designed screenreading devices; partially sighted people may be especially reliant upon large-format text and effective colour contrast; people who are dyslexic or have cognitive impairments may benefit in particular from the use of simpler English or alternative text formats, such as Easy Read, and from the clear and logical layout of an uncluttered website; people whose first language is British Sign Language may also find Plain English indispensable; and people with manual dexterity impairments may need to navigate with a keyboard rather than with a mouse.
Breaking through the communication barrier
- Author:
- HARBRIDGE Elinor
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(1), July 1998, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses the work of CHANGE, an organisation set up five years ago to support people with both learning difficulties and sensory impairment in achieving access to services.
M.A.P.: more access please; the right track
- Authors:
- ORPWOOD Jenny, DAVIS Clare
- Publisher:
- Change
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 1v.,looseleaf.
- Place of publication:
- London
Information pack written for people with learning difficulties and those who work with them. Includes sections on: general information (including the Disability Discrimination Act, training, advocacy, communication, independent living, travel and transport, benefits, and making meetings accessible); deaf issues (including deaf culture, hearing difficulties, hearing tests, hearing aids, talking to deaf people; sympathetic hearing scheme; loop systems, alarms, communication, sign language interpreters, relay interpreters, using telephones, hearing dogs for deaf people, and subtitles); blind issues (including sight tests, tips when meeting a blind person, communication, reading, writing and listening, environment, white canes, and guide dogs); and information about deaf blind issues.
Yesterday I never stopped writing: community-based skills for adults with learning difficulties or disabilities; good guidance drawn from the projects
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education and Skills
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet contains good practice guidance on developing community-based basic skills provision for adults with learning difficulties or disabilities. The case studies are drawn from 21 projects across England. Across the programme, individual projects worked with a range of adult learners including people with: learning difficulties; profound and complex learning difficulties; mental health difficulties; acquired head injuries; dyslexia; deafness or hard of hearing; physical disabilities; and blindness or visual impairment.Three projects specifically targeted minority ethnic communities and a fourth worked with people who were homeless and/or who were substance abusers, many of whom had mental health difficulties.
Consulting with children whose impairments affect their communication
- Author:
- CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Children in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This factsheet summarises the main systems of communication in current use in the UK for children and young people with communication difficulties and provides a brief explanation of them. These systems come under the overall heading of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, a term which refers to any method of communicating that supplements the ordinary methods of speech and handwriting, where these are impaired. The factsheet covers technical aids, signing systems, symbol systems and tactile systems.
The informability manual: making information more accessible in the light of the Disability Discrimination Act
- Author:
- GREGORY Wendy
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 153p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Manual explaining clearly the problems encountered by disabled people in gaining access to information. Provides guidance on the techniques and media which can be used to make information more accessible. Includes sections on: people with literacy problems; people who are deaf or hard of hearing; blind or partially sighted people; people who are deaf blind; people with learning difficulties; older people; using plain language; making all information accessible; print media; broadcast media; multi-media; telephones and helplines; and signage.