Aphasia-Friendly

A set of design practices for making written, spoken, and audiovisual content more accessible to people with aphasia. Established principles (Rose, Worrall, Hickson, Hoffmann) include short sentences with one idea per line, familiar everyday vocabulary, large sans-serif fonts (16-20 pt), high contrast, generous white space, supporting photographs or line drawings paired with text, bullet lists rather than dense paragraphs, and slower speaking pace with pauses in spoken material. In digital media, aphasia-friendly design additionally involves segmenting long content into chunks that can be revisited, offering multimodal summaries, and giving the user control over pace and disclosure. Aphasia-friendly design overlaps with but is distinct from plain language and Easy Read.