Get Involved Person with a Disability Easy Read


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Make it Fair: Transport Equity for All Research Project


Questions

Ask Dr Lisa Stafford

Phone Lisa 07 338 21217

Email Lisa lisa.stafford@griffith.edu.au




outline of a person holding a document with the letters easy read

Handout Easy Read

Woman standing with symbol next to them saying 12 years plus

To be part of this research you must:
  • Be 12 years and older
  • Be a person with a disability.

four people in a groups difffernt ages and gender, two standing and two in wheelchair one electric one manual

When we say people with disabilities we mean:
  • Disabled people
  • D/deaf people
  • Neurodivergent people
  • People with chronic illness
  • People with mental illness
  • People with complex health conditions.

Map of Australia

  • Live in Australia
  • Want to make transport fairer and better.

Woman with blond hair siting with words under neath Griffith university inclusive futures reimagining disability

Dr Lisa Stafford is the researcher.
Lisa works at Inclusive Futures at Griffith university.

Four types of transport bus, train, tram, ferry with the letter i for information in the middle

Lisa wants to learn from you about transport.

She will use this to help people who plan transport.

Equity diagram a person standing with one level underneath, person next to them smaller but with two levels underneath brigin to the same height as the first, and third person smaller but with three levels underneath to bringing them to same height as the other two

When we say Equity we mean Fair.

People with different disabilities can:

  • Access and use transport
  • Move around where they live.

person with disability at the centre with three arrows, one to education class rooms, another friendship, and another image of playing sport

People with different disabilities have the same choices to use transport to do things like everyone else:

  • Go to school or work
  • Go to see friends or family
  • Go to an event, movie, sports, or appointments
  • Do shopping.

Four types of transport bus, train, tram, ferry

When we say Transport we mean Public transport:

  • Buses
  • Train
  • Light Rail or Tram
  • Ferry.

person with disability in the centre three arrows above - i image of shoping, one image of bus stop, one image of walking for exercise

Active transport – Moving about like:

  • Home to shops
  • Home to a bus stop or station
  • Going for a walk for exercise.

five types of active transport, cycline, walking, pushing a person in a wheelchair or prama, riding a scooter, or wheeling or rolling in a wheelchair

Moving about can be:
  • Walking
  • Wheeling or rolling
  • Pushing
  • Riding your bike or trike or hand cycle or scooter.




How to take part

You can choose:

documet with the words storyboard and two areas for pictures and bellow that text

Easy Read Storyboard

Asks 6 questions about using Transport.

3 ways you can answer the questions:

  1. Choose a box that matches an image from a list.
  2. Type your answer.
  3. Upload a photo to show what helps or doesn’t help.

Researcher with Blonde hair sitting and in the top corner person with disability , symbolizing a one on one chat

Or

30 min online 1 on 1 Chat with Lisa.

person with a disability with their tablet sitig at a table and above a thought bubble with ideas light bulb and bus

Both activities will ask you questions like:

  • What helps you use public transport
  • What is bad about public transport
  • Your ideas to make transport fair and better.


How to Get Involved

researcher with blonde hair sitting with three arrows net to them one image of email, tablet or phone

Ask Dr Lisa Stafford.

Phone Lisa 07 338 21217

Email Lisa lisa.stafford@griffith.edu.au

three people looking over document with a green tick

Griffith University human research ethics committee checked this research so it is fair and helpful.

Approval Number is 2025/514
logo of australian government Australian research council

The project is funded by the Australia Research Council Future Fellowship - FT240100262


Logo with the easy read toolbox word above, a picture of a toolbox in the middle and the word easy read made easy underneath

Images

We used images from:

  • Canva and Pexels





outlien of a person holding a document with the words easy read

Make it Fair: Transport Equity for All Research Project


Questions

Ask Dr Lisa Stafford

Phone Lisa 07 338 21217

Email Lisa lisa.stafford@griffith.edu.au




outline of a person holding a document with the letters easy read

Handout Easy Read

Woman standing with symbol next to them saying 12 years plus

To be part of this research you must:
  • Be 12 years and older
  • Be a person with a disability.

four people in a groups difffernt ages and gender, two standing and two in wheelchair one electric one manual

When we say people with disabilities we mean:
  • Disabled people
  • D/deaf people
  • Neurodivergent people
  • People with chronic illness
  • People with mental illness
  • People with complex health conditions.

Map of Australia

  • Live in Australia
  • Want to make transport fairer and better.

Woman with blond hair siting with words under neath Griffith university inclusive futures reimagining disability

Dr Lisa Stafford is the researcher.
Lisa works at Inclusive Futures at Griffith university.

Four types of transport bus, train, tram, ferry with the letter i for information in the middle

Lisa wants to learn from you about transport.

She will use this to help people who plan transport.

Equity diagram a person standing with one level underneath, person next to them smaller but with two levels underneath brigin to the same height as the first, and third person smaller but with three levels underneath to bringing them to same height as the other two

When we say Equity we mean Fair.

People with different disabilities can:

  • Access and use transport
  • Move around where they live.

person with disability at the centre with three arrows, one to education class rooms, another friendship, and another image of playing sport

People with different disabilities have the same choices to use transport to do things like everyone else:

  • Go to school or work
  • Go to see friends or family
  • Go to an event, movie, sports, or appointments
  • Do shopping.

Four types of transport bus, train, tram, ferry

When we say Transport we mean Public transport:

  • Buses
  • Train
  • Light Rail or Tram
  • Ferry.

person with disability in the centre three arrows above - i image of shoping, one image of bus stop, one image of walking for exercise

Active transport – Moving about like:

  • Home to shops
  • Home to a bus stop or station
  • Going for a walk for exercise.

five types of active transport, cycline, walking, pushing a person in a wheelchair or prama, riding a scooter, or wheeling or rolling in a wheelchair

Moving about can be:
  • Walking
  • Wheeling or rolling
  • Pushing
  • Riding your bike or trike or hand cycle or scooter.




How to take part

You can choose:

documet with the words storyboard and two areas for pictures and bellow that text

Easy Read Storyboard

Asks 6 questions about using Transport.

3 ways you can answer the questions:

  1. Choose a box that matches an image from a list.
  2. Type your answer.
  3. Upload a photo to show what helps or doesn’t help.

Researcher with Blonde hair sitting and in the top corner person with disability , symbolizing a one on one chat

Or

30 min online 1 on 1 Chat with Lisa.

person with a disability with their tablet sitig at a table and above a thought bubble with ideas light bulb and bus

Both activities will ask you questions like:

  • What helps you use public transport
  • What is bad about public transport
  • Your ideas to make transport fair and better.


How to Get Involved

researcher with blonde hair sitting with three arrows net to them one image of email, tablet or phone

Ask Dr Lisa Stafford.

Phone Lisa 07 338 21217

Email Lisa lisa.stafford@griffith.edu.au

three people looking over document with a green tick

Griffith University human research ethics committee checked this research so it is fair and helpful.

Approval Number is 2025/514
logo of australian government Australian research council

The project is funded by the Australia Research Council Future Fellowship - FT240100262


Logo with the easy read toolbox word above, a picture of a toolbox in the middle and the word easy read made easy underneath

Images

We used images from:

  • Canva and Pexels




Page last updated: 29 Oct 2025, 01:29 PM