Wikipedia:Simple talk/Archive 24 Blak Tornado
Many readers of Simple English are people whose mother language is not English. In the government organisation for which I worked for many years, devising, writing and delivering educational programs for everything from infants to the aged, and with a particular focus on recent immigrants, we aimed at a reading age of 12years. But in fact, it was necessary to deviate from this, because the needs of infant-school children, intellectually disabled young adults, and elderly migrants were very different. But at least we had some idea who we were dealing with. In this present situation, I can see the benefit in being flexible. Some articles are much more likely to be read by kids and others by more mature readers.