Telling people about learning disability – Easy Read

What this Easy Read document is about

This document is about:

• what the public think about learning disability
• how we can tell people about learning disability so they understand it better.

FrameWorks UK and Mencap worked on it together.

What we did

We wanted to find out how the public think about learning disability.

We talked to lots of different people.

We looked at how their ideas are the same as, or different from, what experts know.

We wanted to know:

• What people get right
• What people get wrong or get confused about

This document tells you what we found.

It also gives some first ideas about how to tell people about learning disability.

This Easy Read document goes with a longer report – “How people think about learning disability: Opportunities and challenges for how to communicate about learning disability” (2026).