The Master's thesis presents easy read for persons with special needs. There are 130 users, male and female, with intellectual disabilities and other associated disorders in the Dobrna Center for Training, Work and Care. Persons with special needs have as much right to be included in society, to be educated, to communicate, and to be informed as every other individual. Due to their developmental and health problems, their integration into society and understanding information are many times impossible. Easy read is information and texts adapted for persons with special needs. The former is a field which is still in development in Slovenia. The Risa Institution and the Črna na Koroškem Center for Training, Work and Care are the most active in this field. The Dobrna Center for Training, Work and Care has a Team for Easy Read who prepares the easy read material for their users. I have used the survey questionnaire method to verify the employees' knowledge of the field of easy read and their use of it. The users participated in the experimental method. They read „the classic“ recipe for spring risotto as well as the version in easy read and then prepared the mentioned dish. The survey questionnaire method and the experimental method provided answers to the questions asked and the hypotheses. The survey questionnaire showed the alarming results which indicate non-application of easy read amongst the employees. On the other hand, the experimental method indicated and confirmed the hypothesis that the users understand the texts in easy read easier.
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