Project team members:

• Prof. Tatjana Prizl Jakovac, PhD
• Prof. Jelena Kuvač Kraljević, PhD
• Ana Došen, assistant
• Marija Jozipović, assistant
• Anamarija Ivanagić, struč. spec. ing. techn. inf.

Associates:

• Mihaela Đurenec, mag. logoped
• Emir Kazaferović, prof. logoped. et prof. soc. paed
• mr. sc. Sanja Habus, prof. logoped

Awareness of the limited access to information among people with language and communication disorders has led to the development of Easy Language, which has been systematically researched in Europe over the past decade. This form of standard language is modified and adapted in both concept and structure to make it more readable and easier to comprehend, thereby ensuring the inclusion of its intended audience. Easy Language enhances accessibility in both language modalities – spoken and written – across various professional and private situations and contexts. The purpose of the project is to establish a scientifically grounded foundation for Easy Croatian through targeted research on language processing in different populations with developmental and acquired language and communication disorders. This will be achieved through the development of a digital platform that provides users with objective lexical-level adaptations based on language processing data from these populations. The project includes activities that are methodologically based on quantitative and qualitative analyses aimed at demonstrating the importance of language processing characteristics in adolescents and adults with dyslexia, developmental language disorder, aphasia, etc., as a prerequisite for designing and understanding adaptations within Easy Croatian. The scientific contribution of the project is also applicable in practice, supporting the creation of an inclusive environment and the implementation of accessibility principles for users who have difficulties understanding messages and are therefore at risk of social exclusion.