Translation into Easy Language

Starting as a practical concept, Easy Language has increasingly been scientifically elaborated since the 2010s (see the article by Bredel/Maaß in this volume). In the early stage, empowerment movements pointed to the urgent demands for texts in Easy Language to enable participation for the target groups with communication impairments. In Germany, a legal situation developed based on the UN-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) that supports – at least to a certain extent – the demands for text variants, especially for texts in the domains of legal-administrative and other regulatory communication in Easy Language (see the article by Lang in this volume). In addition, the number of available texts in Easy Language is currently further increasing in other areas of society including the media sector (see the article by Heerdegen-Wessel in this volume), the medical sector (see the article by Schindler in this volume) or the cultural sector (especially the museum, see Al Masri-Gutternig/Reitstätter 2017 and the article by Schum in this volume).