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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Limited Literacy"”.
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"No one reads in our house": Exploring the challenges faced by parents with limited literacy skills when helping their children with school-based reading activities at home
… investigate the challenges faced by parents with limited literacy skills when helping their children with home-school reading activities; I also explore how schools currently support these parents. Adopting a sociocultural approach, I apply two rounds of data analysis. First, through a thematic …
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Learning Strategies and Coping Mechanisms of Older Adults with Low-Level Literacy Skills
Limited literacy remains a prevailing issue among older adult populations. This qualitative study sought to answer the following research questions: How do older adults with limited literacy skills navigate and learn to navigate their daily lives in an advanced literate community such as the United …
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The Low Literate Consumer in the Pharmacy
… This paper suggests that consumers with limited literacy skills are routinely overlooked within the healthcare arena and may be in need of consumer protection policies. Low literacy is generally perceived to be a stigma, and consumers may actively work to hide this fact. Moreover, given …
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A Pilot Study Comparing Total Physical Response Storytelling™ With the Grammar-Translation Teaching Strategy to Determine Their Effectiveness in Vocabulary Acquisition Among English as a Second Language Adult Learners
… The subjects were adult Hispanic learners with limited literacy. An experimental design approach was used to gather information on the effect of TPRS™ and Grammar-Translation approaches on student vocabulary retention. A total of 25 participants signed the consent to be a research subject. All …
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Adherence to Antihypertensive Medications among African Americans Adults
… score and number of comorbidities), health literacy level, and medication adherence to hypertension (HTN) medications. <em>Aim 2:</em> Describe the relationships between sociodemographic factors, clinical factors, health literacy level, and medication adherence. <em>Aim 3:</em><strong> …
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Towards a phoneme-based predictive communication aid for nonspeaking individuals
The high incidence of literacy deficits amongst people with severe speech<br/>impairments (SSI) has been well documented. Without literacy skills, people with<br/>SSI are unable to use orthographic-based communication systems effectively to<br/>compose novel words and messages in spontaneous …
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Literacy practices of Mexican and Ghanaian immigrant women with limited ESL literacy
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