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Hsu, Yung-chen – GED Testing Service, 2008
Health literacy is important for all adults. Because lower health literacy is associated with lower educational attainment, many adult basic and literacy education programs increasingly provide health education to low-literate adults to improve their health literacy. Using data from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), this study…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Dropouts, Literacy Education, Health Education
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Margellos-Anast, Helen; Hedding, Teri; Perlman, Toby; Miller, Linda; Rodgers, Raymond; Kivland, Lisa; DeGutis, Dorothea; Giloth, Barbara; Whitman, Steven – American Annals of the Deaf, 2005
There is limited information on how communication barriers impact on the health of deaf individuals. The present article describes the development of a standardized interview tool to collect health-related information from deaf adults via face-to-face interviews in American Sign Language (ASL). Questions were selected largely from existing…
Descriptors: Surveys, Deafness, Adults, Interviews