Read our Easy Read version of the news below prepared by our SSCR Research Trainee Elsie Ledger! Easy Read version
The training was funded by the SSCR’s annual Research Capacity Building budget which we use to support, enable and empower our colleagues to deliver our mission to improve adult social care in England.
The EasyRead Photosymbols Library helps create accessible information for people with learning disabilities, but is also suitable for others who seek, use or practice social care and beyond. By using easy words, bigger fonts and pictures, we can create understandable information to help people with lived experience engage in research and interpret findings and evidence.
Co-founder Pete travelled to (a very rainy) Sheffield and delivered an excellent full day session covering the basic principles of EasyRead, the influence of AI, how to develop a house style and ethical and ideological considerations, along with allowing for plenty of time for questions, demonstrations and practical exercises to get us thinking about how we communicate individually and as a team. We were so motivated by the session, that we have agreed to oversee a project to work on co-developing our very own SSCR library of symbols and style and usage guides.
Thank you so much to Pete for such an informative and inspiring day, and to attendant colleagues (Liz Croot, Tom Ryan, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Gemma Stephens, Peter Bath, Nathan Hughes, Amy Hirst and Elsie Ledger) for being so open and engaged.