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Workplace literacy needs medium.com/@accesseasye...
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Our team develop content to Easy English. It is for the 44% of Australian adults with low literacy. Plus many more people who need it every day. Our services include content creation, training, webinars, organisational support #SLP #speechie #inclusion
Our latest blog.
Workplace literacy needs medium.com/@accesseasye...
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Last year #QDN developed an extensive set of tools for PWD to explore Housing options.
This is the Easy English we developed to support people on their journey. www.readee.com.au/more-informa...
More tools opening at the Easy Englsih development myhousingoptions.org.au/toolkit-down...
Christmas can be complicated: a celebration, or loneliness & isolation, or just another day.
Our latest pro bono development in Easy English: Suggestions from people we met in Nov at the ASID conference.
At ReadEE: www.readee.com.au/things-you-l...
or accesseasyenglish.com.au/christmas-yo...
You receive a hard copy participant pack of materials for training.
After the course
Access up to an hour of editorial review of your Easy English draft.
Trainer?
Speech pathologist & international Easy English expert, Cathy Basterfield
Qns
cathy@accesseasyenglish.com.au or 0466 579 855
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Award winning 2 day Easy English training.
Get your 2026 spot now.
Join from different time zones.
When:
- Tuesday/Thursday: 24 & 26 February, 2026 bit.ly/4agc4In
- Monday/Wednesday: 11 & 13 MAy, 2026 bit.ly/48Dlzjt
Where: Online
Or
Talk to us about training for your staff
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Talk to Access Easy English about your content development & website design to Easy English.
Easy English is the only accessible written information that applies the evidence so all people with low literacy, incl PwID can read, understand & use what you write. cathy@accesseasyenglish.com.au
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View MyHousingChoices Easy English on the website Access Easy English developed 4 people with low digital literacy www.readee.com.au/more-informa...
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Easy English resource for Housing Choices.
6 books with worksheets.
Access Easy English worked with Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN) to create the Easy English. Part of Housing Choices resource, workbooks, interactive games, vidoes & more QDN developed. myhousingoptions.org.au
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Other content by Access Easy English to help pple join in. Easy English accesseasyenglish.com.au/national-dis...
Easy English supports people with low literacy, the biggest hidden disabilty, that no one talks about,
Chat to Cathy@accesseasyenglish.com.au to find out more
On #IDWPD25, we celebrate people with disability speaking up, having their say, & being included in decisions, policies and research that affects their lives.
#National Disability Research Partnership (NDRP) www.ndrp.org.au
In Easy English accesseasyenglish.com.au/national-dis...
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The ASID conference starts tomorrow in Sydney.
Tomorrow (Wed) at 11am, Room 2, Cathy will present Access to written information: An update on the evidence.
Let's improve access to meaningful written information for all.
asidconference.com.au
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This week we're at the ASID conference in Sydney.
Come by to chat with Rachel and Cathy. We have lots of example resources to share & inspire you to join the journey to improve written information for all.
Find out more here: asidconference.com.au
See you there!
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Thurs 20 November: Spot the differences: Plain Language, Easy English, Easy Read explained.
Thurs 27 November:Digital Development: hidden accessibility barriers.
Where: Online
Time: 11am -1 pm Aus Eastern Standard Summer time (Melb,Syd)
Cost: $150 each.
accesseasyenglish.com.au/training/
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There is still time to book into any of our webinars this month.
What are the needs of the 44% of adults with low literacy?
Are you communicating with all these people? No?
Does that make good business sense?
Tomorrow Wed 12 November: Insights to LIteracy for Comms and Marketing staff
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Chat to us about having any of your public facing and staff required content developed to Easy English. You will improve access and inclusion and participation for at least 44% of the population. Find out more www.accesseasyenglish.com.au
It just makes good business sense.
3 front covers of Easy English of the Well Being plan. Additonal text. Explore all 9 sections in Easy English of the Mornington Peninsula Council 4 year plan to make life better for all.
Our recent project with Mornington Peninsula Council in Victoria. Thanks team.
Easy English versions and a screen reader version of the Easy English text of the
1. Council plan bit.ly/4nMcWHH
2. Well Being plan. bit.ly/4qGxZ1b
Or via Our work accesseasyenglish.com.au/access-easy-...
Enjoy our new blog, as I travel home from Rio after attending the inaugural Latin American Easy Language conference. medium.com/@accesseasye...
Knox is Vic:not high humidity.Nor extreme high temp 4 weeks on end, then hotter again. Talk to us about content your community needs in Easy English for the weather in your community. cathy@accesseasyenglish.com.au
www.readee.com.au
#HealthLIteracy #Emergency #BeSafe
@brisbanetimes.bsky.social
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Text: Access and inclsion for all. It just makes sense. Beside Access Easy Englsih logo. IMage: 2 Easy Englsh front pages, with an image. 1. will be hot. PLan what you can do. Man with thinking look on his face. Bright sun beside him. 2. It is hot. You can get sick. What can you do? Woman holding her face in her hand with dizzing swil above her head. Bright sunshine above her.
It is extremely hot in parts of #Qld now. There were extremely hot days in #Sydney this week too.
#EasyEnglish we did @KnoxCC KNox City Council in Melbourne. It will be hot. Plan what you can do. Info on signs & symptoms of heat stress and more. www.readee.com.au/be-safe-knox
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Accss Easy English staff sitting at computer. Text: Ready to start? We have staff available to start your project now. Contact us today.
Donβt forget your own events and activities.
Talk to us about an Easy English quote.
It makes good business sense: the more people who can read about your event, the more people who may book a ticket and/or attend.
@leeannjung.bsky.social @sarahjwallace.bsky.social @jojowat.bsky.social
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Our goal is a story a week.
You will find them on our website readee.com.au
It is not sustainable without monetary support.
Support our #CommunityEngagement & #inclusion. We love to collaborate Chat about a donation or sponsorship. cathy@accesseasyenglish.com.au
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2 front pages of 2 Easy English documents for Halloween developed by Access Easy English. 1. Text: A fun time. It may be a bit scary. It is Halloween. IMage front of house wth garden, with halloween pumpkin at door, black cat, spiders web and bat on the house. 2. Text: Trick or treat. Be safe. It is Halloween. Image. 3 people in costumes. they knock at a door.
Halloween is not far away.
#EasyEnglish www.readee.com.au/things-you-l... Please share.
The biggest request from people with low literacy is what is on, what to do & where to go. Yet this is rarely commissioned. How do we change that?
Our goal is a story a week.
@carolinebowen.bsky.social
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A further comment from us following the editorial note from the Australian Policy Online acknowledging Easy English and Easy Read are different. Yeah!
There is 20 years of evidence. Why is it being ignored?
Leave a note on dept webpage, when you cannot understand it.
medium.com/@accesseasye...
Panel 1. Linguistics, Theory & History
Disc on concepts & history behind Easy Language. Pioneers & researchers from Europe, Aus & Latin America.
10β12 Oct 29 (Latin America)
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29 Oct
Rio de Janeiro
See on YouTube
Look out for me on Panel 3 and Debate 1 too.
www.clals2025.site
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Panel 1 β Linguistics, Theory & History of Simple Language & Easy Reading.
Hear from the people who defined the theoretical frameworks & linguistics of Plain Language & Easy Reading, different languages & regions.
www.clals2025.site
@inclusioneurope.bsky.social
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MYCPGuide social media meme, at their website of same name. 43 Easy English fact sheets
#EasyEnglish
Aus, 44% of adults have low literacy.
10% more for financial info, or English is a second language.
Health literacy? 60% of pple do not have the health literacy to manage.
Emergencies, trauma, stress, most of us.
#EasyEnglish; time to start.
www.accesseasyenglish.com.au
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I'm honoured to be invited to the inaugural Latin America Easy Language conf.
Brazil. 29/30 Oct 2025.
A great privilege to be invited on the opening day panel 1. I'll join leaders from diff parts of the world to discuss the diff perspectives & frameworks developed for quality written info.
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I'm giving up my Ballroom Dance Classes.
It just feels like one step forward and two steps back!
#dadjokes
person sitting at a computer in middle of meme & Access Easy English logo in bottom right. Text: Ready to start? We have staff available to start your project now. Contact us today!
Media releases for #PlainLanguageDay. #Blog
'New resources make reading fun and accessible.'
medium.com/@accesseasye...
Interviews & comment, projects
Access Easy English: 0466 579 855 or cathy@accesseasyenglish.com.au
@equalaccesspublicmedia.org @victoriannews.com.au @theconversation.com
Our latest blog, Let's talk about digital access.
Does it meet the needs of your users and potential users?
medium.com/@accesseasye...
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