Easy Language

For people with reading disabilities, general, technical or expert texts written in standard language contain barriers of different kinds that can severely impede reception, comprehension and retention or even make texts entirely inaccessible (see the articles by Rink and Christmann/Groeben in this volume). Christmann/Groeben as well as Lutz (both in this volume) describe which characteristics of texts complicate their comprehensibility and which, respectively, facilitate perception and understanding.