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  Agenda

  Date: October 14, 2023
  Time: 10:00-4:00 PM EDT
  Location: ASU Barrett and O’Connor Washington Center, 1800 I Street NW Washington, DC 20006

• 9:30-10:00 – Sign-In

• 10:00-10:20 – Welcome, Agenda, Accessibility Information

• 10:20-10:35 - Introducing the Plain Truth Project

• 10:35-10:50 – Self-advocacy and the Media

• 10:50-11:30 – Current Research and Future Questions

• 11:30-11:55 - Storytelling and Journalism

• 12:00-1:00 - Self-Advocacy Panel

• 1:00-1:45 – In-Person: Lunch break on your own; Online: Break-out activities

• 1:45-3:00 – In-Person Break-Out Activities

• 3:00-4:00 – Putting Together Best Practices

Resources

LANGUAGE

National Center for Disability and Journalism Style Guide

ART

MAKE STUDIO

STORYTELLING

Telling It Our Way

WORDSLAW

MORE ABOUT US

Rebecca Monteleone

Beena Raghavendran

Amy Silverman

Panelists and Speakers

Hari Kannan

• Podcast: Industry of Simple Life

• Hari is also featured on Best Buddies Maryland’s TikTok

Sophie Stern

• Personal Website

Phillis Schmidbauer

Darius Cunningham

Adrian Forsythe

MORE ON DISABILITY AND JOURNALISM

National Center on Disability and Journalism

Global investigative Journalism Network Guide to Investigating Disability Issues

MORE ON PLAIN LANGUAGE AND EASY READ

See www.plaintruthproject.org/plain-language-guides-database for a more comprehensive guide of resources, but these are some of our favorites:

One Idea Per Line: A Guide to Making Easy Read Resources (ASAN)

Information for all: European standards for making information easy to read and understand (Inclusion Europe)

Am I making myself clear? Mencap’s guidelines for accessible writing

Plain Language Action and Information Network