Inclusive New Media Design » Severe intellectual disabilities http://www.inclusivenewmedia.org/blog including people with intellectual disabilities in the WWW Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:38:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Severe intellectual disabilities http://www.inclusivenewmedia.org/blog/390/id-accessible-websites/people-with-intellectual-disabilities/severe-learning-disabilities/ http://www.inclusivenewmedia.org/blog/390/id-accessible-websites/people-with-intellectual-disabilities/severe-learning-disabilities/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:56:49 +0000 Helen Kennedy http://www.inclusivenewmedia.org/blog/?p=390 Some people have SEVERE intellectual disabilities. Even as adults they will need a lot of help and support with daily living. They will often have limited or eccentric communication and will have no literacy or numeric skills.

The video below shows people with severe intellectual disabilities using the web. Before that, there is a link to a PDF summarising key barriers to web access for this group, techniques you can use to overcome these barriers, examples of good sites for this audience, and some useful links. The same PDF is used for people with severe and profound learning disabilities.

Severe Intellectual Disabilities Checklist (PDF 84kB)

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