SUPPORT ADULT LITERACY SERVICES! |
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CHILDREN |
– Children who have reading problems and live in a family where literacy is limited and undervalued will have more difficulties in achieving at school and later in life.
- Children of unemployed parents who have not completed high school are 5 times more likely to drop out of school.
- Children of adults who participate in literacy programs automatically improve their grades and test scores, raise their reading levels and are less likely to drop out of school.
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TEACH THE PARENT, REACH THE CHILD! |
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BUSINESS |
– For American businesses to remain competitive and productive, employees must be able to read, write, compute, communicate and solve problems. |
- 90% of Fortune’s 1000 executives said that low literacy is hurting their productivity and profitably.
- 60% of front-line workers in goods-producing businesses have difficulty applying information from a text to a required task.
- 20% of adults lack the skills to be fully productive
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EDUCATING EMPLOYEES INCREASES PRODUCTIVITY! |
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HEALTH |
– People with limited skills have difficulty in reading and acting on medical information, which may result in more severe health problems, medication errors and a higher risk of hospitalization. |
- Persons with low literacy report poorer general health.
- Most patient materials are written at grade levels higher than their reading abilities.
- In one study of hospital patients:
- 60% could not read a standard consent form.
- 42% could not understand directions for taking medicine on an empty stomach.
- 30% could not read and understand basic health materials.
- 26% could not understand appointment information.
- In another study, 81% of adults over age 65 had inadequate health literacy.
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