Friday 23 April 2010

Easy Read Manifestos

This months Mencap newsletter has a link to an article
The Easy Read versions of the Conservative,Labour and Liberal Democrat manifestos can be downloaded from the article and you can Listen to people with a learning disability talk about why voting is important.
See more on voting from my blog

Thursday 22 April 2010

Learning about the election


Symbol World has a symbol supported election resource suitable for students with a learning disability. It was prepared for the 2005 election but apart from the results page it is still relevant. It has short sections on Political Parties,Voting,The Election and Parliament.

For further resources see my other blog entries on Politics

Monday 19 April 2010

How shall I vote?

The first thing of course is to register to vote by Tuesday 20th April. This is also the date to arrange a postal vote(if you have already registered), Tuesday 27th is the cut off date for Proxy votes.
Visit
About my Vote for further details.

To find out about the prospective parliamentary candidates the following websites give useful background information:


For understanding of the issues and how to vote Promote the Vote is a site designed for adults with a learning disability.




Maggie Harnew on her Skillsworkshop blog has also highlighted



Also see my other blog entries on politics and voting