Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j0PEE2n25010; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:14:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:14:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <41F63C14.4FCEB029@mcedservices.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Charles & Pam LaRue <larue@mcedservices.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4625] Health Literacy Materials X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; I; PPC) Status: O Content-Length: 1317 Lines: 39 MN Dept of Ed Grant helps create health literacy materials With a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education supervised by the Minnesota Literacy Council I have created online and hard copy introductions and exercises to teach basic health literacy in English and 3 immigrant languages. Technology which including streaming audio in Arabic, Hmong and Somali make this health information accessible to very low level learners and the additional printed copies and on-line and printed exercises all reinforce the basic survival information being taught. This project includes a total of 16 multimedia presentations, 8 online quizzes and 24 pdf documents. There are 4 kinds of multimedia presentations : Prescription labels OTC Labels Special Warning Labels Side Effects Each presentation is available in 4 languages; English, Arabic, Hmong and Somali. There are 8 online html quizzes which review this information. There are pdf versions of the four Presentations in the same four languages, and there are 8 pdf versions of the quizzes. All of this information as well as an answer key are available online at http://www.mcedservices.com/online.html just click on Health Literacy Exercises -- Multi-Cultural Educational Services "We Get Your Message to Newcomers" (763) 767-7786 www.mcedservices.com
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