Newsletter October 2010 - Network-meeting in Oslo

Dear members of the Easy-to-Read Network,

For a long time there have been technical problems preventing us from using the homepage of the network. Now the page is working again and I do hope we can start co-operating as a real network. To start with, here is a newsletter telling you a little about what has happened lately.

The main piece of news is of course that the network had a meeting in Oslo 9 August 2010.

A Greek Law adapted into Easy-to-Read

In September 2008, a new law (Law 3699) was issued by the Greek Parliament regarding students with disability and special educational needs. We have attempted to transcribe the first article of the law into easy-to-read. This article deals with issues relevant to the students and their families and covers the following subjects:
· What is special education and what is its scope?
· Who are defined as “students with disability and special educational needs” by the law?
· How to help students and their families to get a diagnosis and to find the proper school placement?
· Which are the public school placements?
· How is the disability movement engaged in the Greek educational system?

Katerina Arabatzi
Greece

The second meeting of E-T-R reading groups in Catalonia gathered 200 people

The Easy-to-Read meeting took place in the Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya the 29th of November 2008. It was organized by the Easy-to-Read Working Group and the Associació Lectura Fàcil (Easy-to-Read Association).

Welcome to the Easy-to-Read Network

The international Easy-to-Read Network is open to everybody who is professionally interested and engaged in easy-to-read/plain language matters.

Read more about the Easy-to-Read Network.

With this website we hope to achieve a channel of information for the network. With this website we can get and give information, discuss ideas, seek advice from colleagues, planning joint projects etc.

On these pages you will also find information about easy-to-read matters in different countries.

My Opinion My Vote

Many people with learning disabilities don’t experience any political participation as electors and don’t exercise their right to vote. The Equal Opportunities Centre for Disabled Persons is participating in an EU funded project that aims to modify this situation.

The overall objective of the project is to educate people with learning disabilities to get aware of their political rights and to form and express their informed opinion on the occasion of local, national and European elections and referenda, as any other European citizen. The project will be made in a partnership between nine organizations in six European countries.