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Essex County Council has a new website that gives the support and knowledge so that anyone in Essex can communicate with people with learning disabilities. Working with Easy-Read-Online Limited, Inclusive Communication Essex - or Essex ICE has created a website which is in itself accessible to people with learning disabilities and contains:

• Resources - like photographs, templates and images, and in the secure area Photosymbols, Change Picture Bank and Valuing People Clipart.
• Learning - downloadable sheets about taking photos or video; downloading video or photos to your computer and inserting pictures into documents and templates. There are also over 100 video clips of people demonstrating common signs to help people with learning difficulties understand your communication.
• Training - information about training events.
• A secure area which allows people in Essex to access images from popular picture banks.
  

Like all their Easy-Read-Online websites - this site is accessible to people who have no reading by presenting all the information, and help with navigation as a video as well as text. People who have difficulty in reading can still use the website - by listening and watching the videos.

There is a secure area that is only available to people who live and work in Essex and is accessed by logging on or registering on the site. Much of the site is free access though and is a good example of presenting information for this audience.

www.essexice.com