The Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services (SCHS) is organising a workshop on “easy read” documents, from October 14 to November 11 2020.
The workshop will be headed by Martin Dobson, Director, and Founder of Easy Read Online Limited from the United Kingdom. He has been working with people with learning disabilities for 25 years to understand complex information and simplify learning resources.
Dobson has confirmed that easy read is a writing method using pictures and simple language to help people with intellectual disabilities read important documents, information, and instructions, and simplify complex information.
The bodies and authorities which need simplified reading documents are governmental institutions, service departments for beneficiaries with intellectual disabilities, the committees supervising public events, emergency, first aid and crisis management committees, electoral committees, and libraries, educational and cultural institutions.
Dobson has pointed out that the workshop targets workers in publishing houses, painters, designers, art colleges’ students, writers, text editors, librarians, special education specialists, and those working with intellectual disabilities.
Dobson has indicated that training will be hypothetically dependent on asynchronous education, with five virtual discussion sessions, at the rate of one session per week. There will be practical applications and tasks for the trainee to perform.
