Accessibility and autonomy: the construction of the first easy reading club in Uruguay

Abstract

The article presents the planning and design process of the first Easy Reading Club of Uruguay, a joint work of the Interdisciplinary Communication and Accessibility Nucleus (NICA) of the University of the Republic and the Down Association of Uruguay (ADdU). This is a pilot project whose planning process promotes reflections on the conditions necessary for the exercise of rights based on access to information. Its development identifies the conceptual bases that structure the project, which is transversalized by the human rights approach and the concept of accessibility. Below is the device of reading clubs and easy reading as an incipient accessibility tool that is used by people with intellectual disabilities as one of their priority groups. In the development of the article the origins and articulations for the construction of the project are documented, making visible the construction of the pilot from the university extension. The agreed design for the development of the project is presented, identifying the roles and methodologies proposed to explore the sustained use of the Easy Reading.