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5 Functional Literacy
Found 2 free book(s)Michigan K-12 Standards for Social Studies
www.michigan.govsophisticated level of literacy than ever before — one that transcends basic technical and functional knowledge and skills. For many, literacy means different things from a wide variety of perspectives. One constant, however, is that the notion of literacy is often associated with the mastery of the technical skills of oral and
Improving Health Literacy for Older Adults
www.cdc.gov1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS)11 and the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)10 indicated that significantly large numbers of U.S. adults have low literacy skills. In general, older adults have more limited literacy skills than do adults in other age groups. Findings from the 2003 NAAL indicated that 71%