Accessible written information resources for adults with intellectual disability: Good practice summary. Research to Action Guide.

People with disability have the right to be able to access information so that they can make choices about things that are important to them. In Australia, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has made this principle more important than ever as people need information to exercise choice and control in their lives. Making information accessible for people with intellectual disability (ID) can be hard because: • all people have different communication needs and preferences which need to be taken into account when preparing and presenting information; and • many people with ID have difficulty reading. This guide is about how to create Accessible Written Information or AWI. The most common way to present AWI is through what is known as ‘easy English’ in Australia. This is also called ‘easy-to-read’ or ‘Easy Read’ in the UK and Europe. People have written guidelines for preparing AWI in Australia and internationally. This guide contains common features of AWI, taken from these guidelines. It includes important things to think about when supporting people using AWI, as well as examples of what good practice looks like when producing AWI. If you want to know more about the research behind these guidelines, you can go to the Rapid Review which forms part of this Research to Action guide.