I started working with Scottish Disability Equality Forum about three years ago. The biggest challenge for me was understanding who our membership was and how best to communicate to them all. The process in place when I started wasn’t wrong at all but I felt it could be simplified, especially with the membership increasing weekly. Our membership is open to all disabled people, therefore the communication needs varied a lot and this resulted in spending days ensuring each member received exactly the format of information they requested, for example: Yellow paper Large fonts in varying sizes Audio tape CD Print
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Top ten tips for communication – how to get better at speaking with people who have a learning disability
Top ten tips for communication – how to get better at speaking with people who have a learning disability Who we are My name is Ivan Cohen and I am a member of People First (Scotland). I am Chairperson of my local collective advocacy group and I also represent People First at the Inclusive Communication Hub Working Group. People First (Scotland) is the independent self-advocacy organisation for people with learning disabilities. People First is run by and for us, the members – this makes us a Disabled Person’s User-Led Organisation. We have more than one thousand members and about one
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