This is about the help that you (would) need most days to:
- see signs, symbols and dates and written or printed text,
- and to understand the information contained within them
The rules talk about text of a standard size without specifying what this means. Think about DWP letters when you explain about this.
The rules talk about text in your native language, which means the language that you were born to.
DWP guidance says that this activity does not include remembering what you have read. Even so, there must be a moment where you have absorbed the information contained in a text in order to count as having read it to an acceptable standard.
The Questions:
Aids: To read, and understand what you are reading, what physical things do you use, that you would not need if you did not have your condition?
Prompting – Basic Written Information: Would you usually need someone to prompt you, remind you, encourage you or explain things to you to read and understand signs, symbols and dates? If so, explain more.
Prompting – Complex Written Information: To read more than one sentence of text, would you usually need someone to prompt you, remind you, encourage you or explain things to you? If so, explain more.
Can’t do it: Is it true that even with aids and/or prompting, you:
- still can’t read and understand what you are reading in a reasonable time?
- still can’t do it to an acceptable standard?
- can’t do it at all?
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Example – Ellie
Prompting:
I struggle to focus on things for long, and so I always need someone to prompt me and encourage me to read things like DWP letters.
My mum always goes through these things with me to explain things and to make sure that I have understood what I am reading.
Can’t Do It:
Even with my mum helping me, it takes a long time to do this. She will read through something in just a minute, but it takes five minutes or so, before I am confident that I have understood what we are going through.