Who uses symbols?
You don’t have to have a learning difficulty to benefit enormously from symbols. Symbols are used around us all the time in everyday life, from instructions in how to use a new appliance, to signs in foreign airports. Here is a list of just some of the other different groups of people who use symbols: • People learning English as a second language • People with memory difficulties, dementia or other brain damage • People with dyslexia, dyspraxia or spatial/time/organisational difficulties • People who are deaf or hearing impaired • Young children who have not yet started to read.
