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Peer reviewedBashford, Louise; And Others – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1995
In the context of producing academic research that is more accessible to people with intellectual disabilities, this article proposes publishing academic papers with a "parallel text" which would both provide a simplified version but also facilitate access to the main document. Background research on the idea of parallel texts and technical…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Difficulty Level, Mental Retardation, Readability
