Leitura Fácil e o prazer da leitura literária em pessoas com deficiência intelectual

Abstract

Despite the multiple benefits that reading for pleasure offers at an intellectual, personal and social level, and that access to information and culture is a democratic right for all, people with intellectual disabilities, as well as other people with difficulties of reading comprehension, often face enormous barriers to accessing both. Easy-to-read is a methodology for adapting and producing texts that, through format, language and content guidelines, seeks to make any type of text accessible to these groups. However, despite its implementation in practice, there are hardly any studies that scientifically demonstrate its efficacy. This research aims to find evidence that easy-to-read improves the reading comprehension of people with intellectual disabilities, and that in this way they can experience the pleasure of reading, which would allow them to achieve its benefits, develop reading habits and become competent readers.