{"id":3184,"date":"2025-02-26T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/about-us\/our-work\/accessible-communication\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:36:35","slug":"accessible-communication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/about-us\/our-work\/accessible-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessible Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Accessible Communications Pilot project is about reviewing some of the NDIA\u2019s communications to help make them easier to understand for people with intellectual disability.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Down Syndrome Australia will work with an Expert Review Panel made up of people with intellectual disability. The Panel will provide feedback, advice, and recommendations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Expert Review Panel will run until&nbsp;<strong>13<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>June 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What does the Expert Review Panel do?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Expert Review Panel will share their lived experiences of how they understand information from the NDIA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Panel will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>take part in co-design <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>provide support and leadership to other people with intellectual disability.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Panel members go through the factsheets in structured sessions. They point out what makes sense and what is confusing. They suggest improvements like simpler language, shorter documents and adding glossaries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Impact so far<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The NDIA is using the feedback to improve current and future resources. This project shows how including people with lived experience makes information stronger, clearer and more useful for everyone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project has also been a fantastic opportunity for people with disability to build skills, confidence and connections.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-c64f69b7 alignfull\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"padding-top:2em;padding-right:2em;padding-bottom:2em;padding-left:2em\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:25px\">\n<p>\u201cWorking on the Expert Review Panel for the Accessible Communication Pilot Project has been interesting to learn about the NDIA documents and how we hope to improve them. Working with other team members has helped me understand that we all have different ways of learning and ideas. I hope that our lived experience helps make a difference and that NDIA take on our recommendations so Easy Read documents are actually Easy to Read and not long and complicated. I really like having a Glossary to look at to help me understand words I don\u2019t know.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Ally Gillies, Panel Member&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/10\/Ally-Gillies_Photo_September_2024-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Ally Gillies\" class=\"wp-image-1134 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/10\/Ally-Gillies_Photo_September_2024-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/10\/Ally-Gillies_Photo_September_2024-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>For more information<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>For more information, please contact&nbsp;Cat Standley:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"mailto:cat.standley@downsyndrome.org.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cat.standley@downsyndrome.org.au<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"tel:1300 344 954\">1300 344 954<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Or via the <a href=\"https:\/\/nrschat.nrscall.gov.au\/nrs\/internetrelay\">National Relay Service<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Project The Accessible Communications Pilot project is about reviewing some of the NDIA\u2019s communications to help make them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837,"parent":1224,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1689,26931,27187,24537,10703,8019","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"state":[],"class_list":["post-3184","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3184\/revisions\/3632"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/national\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}