Easy Read & Learning Disability Training
CHANGE’s experienced team delivers engaging and rewarding training on accessible information, easy read creation and learning disability awareness, online or in-person.
At CHANGE we are guided by the principle of ‘nothing about us without us’, and all our training is co-delivered with a person with lived experience of learning disability.
Our training sessions help all organisations and staff to communicate better with people with learning disabilities and improve the service they provide to them.
Essential Training Sessions
CHANGE offers a number of essential training sessions, 2-3 hours in length, covering Easy Read information and the broader context of the lived experience of people with learning disabilities. Understanding this is an important and undervalued part of making information truly accessible.
Our ready-to-deliver sessions, co-delivered by a person with a learning disability, include:
What is Easy Read?
An introduction to the accessible information standard, what Easy Read is, how it’s used and why it matters.
Learning Disability Awareness: Disability and Empowerment
A newly-updated course covering topics such as statistics, employment, co-working and lived experience.
OutSpoken! How to be Inclusive: LGBTQI+, Autism and Learning Disability.
A session designed for health and social care professionals covering topics such as diagnostic overshadowing, pronouns, terms and definitions and sharing stories.
Tailored Training Sessions
CHANGE also provides training that is custom-tailored to your organisation’s needs, drawing on our 25 years of experience in producing effective Easy Read information for hundreds of organisations across all sectors, and our deep knowledge and understanding of the lived experience of people with learning disabilities.
CHANGE’s Learning Resources
Because we want to make good information accessible in Easy Read format to as many people as possible, we offer many resources for free, including our detailed guide on How to Make Information Accessible. We encourage you to use and share this to help ensure people with learning disabilities receive the same information as their peers, empowering them to make informed decisions about their lives.
Subscribers to our Image Bank can access additional resources, including our Easy Read template and video tutorials on creating effective Easy Read communications.
Find Out More…
To book a place on any of our Essential Training Sessions, enquire about Tailored Training Sessions customised to your particular requirements, or to discuss how we can help make your information more accessible, please call, email [email protected] or complete the form below.