REGISTER for the August 29 Webcast: Health Literacy of America's Adults: 
Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy 

WHEN: August 29, 2007 
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time 
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Central Time 
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Mountain Time 
10:30 AM - 12:00 AM Pacific Time 

*To Register, go to:
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/webcasts/NAALhealth/webcast0829.html * 

Be sure to mark your calendar for Wednesday, August 29.  Once you have
registered, you will receive a confirmation email that gives you more
information on how to tune in for the webcast on August 29. (Please note,
you will need either Windows Media Player or Real Player to view the
webcast.  More instructions will be provided, once you have registered.)

For more information about this webcast or The National Institute for 
Literacy, go to: http://www.nifl.gov. 

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The August 29 webcast will focus on the Health Literacy of America's Adults:

Results of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) 2003. 

The live webcast will feature: 
* Dr. Sheida White directs the National Assessment of Adult Literacy 
at the National Center for Education Statistics (or NCES). Her doctoral 
degree is in linguistics from Georgetown University. After working as a 
full-time reading researcher for 6 years, she joined NCES in 1991. During 
the first 8 years at NCES, she monitored the National Assessment of 
Education Progress (NAEP). Since 1999, she has been directing the NAAL 
project. Dr. White has taught non-native English speaking adults. She 
created a guided reading program to address the reading comprehension needs 
of slow readers. Her articles have appeared in journals such as "Language in

Society" and "Reading Research Quarterly". 

* Other panelists: TBA. 
* The webcast will be moderated by Dr. Sandra 
L. Baxter, Director of the National Institute for Literacy. 

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The National Institute for Literacy has hosted a number of web casts 
presenting information, findings and results from the National Assessment of

Adult Literacy (NAAL), for more information on these webcast, please go to: 
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/NAAL2003.html.