These slides suggest possible questions to ask parliamentary candidates in the May 2015 General Election. This set use Photosymbols images and highly accessible written English.

1. Version
3
using
Photosymbols
and
simplified
language
Questions
to
ask
Candidates

2. It is getting harder and harder for
people with learning disabilities to
speak up for themselves.
How will you help if I vote for you?

3. People with learning disabilities
sometimes don’t get choices.
Sometimes people choose for them
How will you help if I vote for you?

4. Some people with learning
disabilities have children.
They need help.
How will you help if I vote for you?

5. People with learning disabilities might get
abused.
This often happens in places far from
home.
These places should be closed.
How will you help if I vote for you?

6. Disabled people might be attacked or
called names.
It is getting worse.
It needs to stop hate crime.
How will you help if I vote for you?

7. People carry out hate crime against
disabled people.
The criminals are not being punished.
They do not always go to prison.
How will you help if I vote for you?

8. Social care is very important for
disabled people.
It needs money to work well.
A lot of the money for their care has
been taken away.
How will you help if I vote for you?

9. Disabled people have had cuts to the
money that helps them.
They have had more cuts than anyone
else.
How will you help if I vote for you?

10. Some people who have jobs don’t pay
tax.
This is called tax fraud.
We think people should pay taxes.
How will you help if I vote for you?

11. Some people claim benefits who don’t
need them.
This is called benefit fraud.
People on the TV talk a lot about
benefit fraud.
This makes disabled people sound
like scroungers.
This gives disabled people a bad
name.
How will you help if I vote for you?

12. Some disabled people
are looked after by their family.
The government have cut money that
helps families.
How will you help if I vote for you?

13. People with disabilities need money
to help them live at home.
If this money is cut people won’t be
able to live in their own house.
How will you help if I vote for you?

14. People Independence Payments
doesn’t give disabled people
enough money.
How will you help if I vote for you?

15. People with disabilities might want
their own home.
How will you help if I vote for you?

16. People who use wheelchairs need
special things in their home.
They might need a ramp and extra
help.
How will you help if I vote for you?

17. People with disabilities want help to
get jobs.
How will you help if I vote for you?

18. People with disabilities want help
to get jobs.
How will you help if I vote for you?

19. Social care costs a lot of money.
It is making disabled people poorer.
Then they can’t get help.
How can you help if I vote for you?

20. Some people with learning disabilities
live a long way from their family.
That is wrong.
How will you help if I vote for you?

21. People with learning disabilities need help
when they get ill.
Doctors and nurses sometimes don’t
always realise people are ill.
How will you help if I vote for you?

22. Sometimes people with learning
disabilities don’t get the right medicine or
help.
This is not fair.
How will you help if I vote for you?

23. People with learning disabilities need
help to be healthy.
How will you help if I vote for you?

24. These
slides
have
been
adapted
in
an
attempt
to
support
people
with
Learning
Disabilities
to
understand
more
about
the
issues
which
have
been
raised
by
the
Learning
Disability
Alliance.
Total
Communication
is
committed
to
supporting
people
to
understand
and
also
to
speak
out
.
Easy
read
or
accessible
information
is
one
way
of
helping
to
achieve
this.
We
have
made
an
attempt
to
simplify
the
language
and
the
concepts
but
have
no
wish
to
be
precious,
if
the
images
or
wording
don’t
work
for
people
please
feel
free
to
alter
them.
There
are
2
versions
available
using
Photosymbols
one
with
simpler
language
and
concepts.
And
one
where
we
have
retained
most
of
the
language
and
concepts
from
the
original
work
by
the
LDA.
This
version
has
been
made
using
Boardmaker
symbols,
some
symbols
have
been
adapted
or
created
in
an
attempt
to
convey
some
of
the
concepts.
We
would
like
to
acknowledge
the
following
people
for
their
help
in
producing
the
materials:
Speech
and
Language
Therapy
Students
-­‐
Emma
Dixon,
Serena
Butler,
Sophie
Gordon
&
Vanessa
McGill.
Communication
Development
workers
-­‐
Amir
Uddin
and
Mark
Booth.
Peter
Le
Grys
from
Photosymbols
for
access
to
the
library
of
images.
All
of
whom
gave
up
their
own
time
to
help.
Boardmaker
symbols:
Picture
Communication
Symbols
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by
Mayer-­‐Johnson
LLC.
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Reserved
Worldwide.
Used
with
permission.
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facts
and
figures
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to:
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Alison
Matthews
&
Shahnaz
Ashraf
,
Total
Communication
Organisation