ERIC Number: ED300757
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-Jun
Pages: 80
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Combating Illiteracy among the Elderly: A Cost-Effective Strategy. Final Project Report.
National Council on the Aging, Inc., Washington, DC.
This final report of the Literacy Education for the Elderly Project (LEEP) provides a description and the results of the project designed to target literacy education to the older adult. The strategy of the two-year program, established in 27 sites nationwide, was to: (1) link the local level aging services network with the volunteer adult literacy network; (2) recruit and train older adults as volunteer literacy tutors and peer supports; (3) deliver literacy education to older adults in sites such as senior centers, nutrition sites, senior housing, and churches; and (4) provide administrators, literacy tutors and trainers with materials on how to organize a literacy program to address the special learning needs of the elderly. Appendixes include a list of project advisory committee members, a list of demonstration sites, case studies of sites, a follow-up survey, and reproductions of articles from various periodicals describing the program. (RS)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
Sponsor: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (ED), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: National Council on the Aging, Inc., Washington, DC.
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