12 million people in Spain have reading difficulties.
The publisher Reading For All arrives in Spain with a book collection dedicated to people with reading difficulties and writing.
Reading and writing sounds like a no-brainer to us, something we take for granted. The truth is that more than 12 million people in Spain have reading and writing problems in your daily life.
Some data on access to literature in Spain:
According to data from 2017, almost 12% of the population in Spain does not read regularly due to vision problems, reading difficulties, or other health problems.
The culture still remains in many cases Out of range of the most vulnerable groups: people with intellectual disabilities, people with limited academic training, older people, people in situations of risk of exclusion, etc.
Difficulty reading is not only a matter of leisure, but also affects these people in their daily activities.
Bringing literature closer to people with reading difficulties means knowing the needs of each problem and establishing different levels of adaptation.
How to bring literature to people with reading difficulties?
The Reading For All publishing house is specialized in plain language books.
It is not a new initiative, it is already implemented in countries such as Holland, Germany and the United Kingdom. Reading for All raises a collection with various levels intended for anyone with a reading weakness, regardless of their age, interests or knowledge of Spanish.
This variety responds to the need for break the stigma that people with reading difficulties are all cut from the same pattern.
Each one will need more or less illustrations, a glossary of words.
They do not want to forget about people with dyslexia or learning difficulties that are found in a limbo between too simple books and too complicated books for your level.
The objective of this initiative:
In the words of the publisher's director, Ralf Beekveldt.
"Difficulties in reading can also cause problems finding a suitable job, and fulfilling social and civic obligations. Have difficulties to understand the correspondence of the municipality, the tax authorities, electricity bills and so on. People enjoy the reading, sometimes for the first time in their lives, and as a result they begin to read increasingly".
Now he comes to Spain waiting bring reading closer to all those people who believed that it was not something for them.