Thanks, Marg.


On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:25:58 -0700, Marg Rose wrote

> Here is a resource for health care workers that you can hand over 

> when frustrated or follow up and send later, and encourage them to 

> read for other clients who may struggle to understand printed 

> material and then have compliance issues. It was created by Charles 

> Moody of Literacy Partners of Manitoba, and is available at: 

> http://www.plainlanguage.mb.literacy.ca/resource.htm entitled Handy Guide

> for Health Practitioners about Low Literacy.There are other 

> documents there as well, such as a Clear Doc Index for reviewing of 

> their materials. Charles is a fantastic workshop leader who has done 

> outreach to health educators for the past 3 years. He is at plain 

> words.ca if you are interested. Great Aussie guy.

> 

> Dr. Linda Shohet of the Centre for Literacy in Quebec does workshops 

> "What if they don't understand" with health care providers. Her 

> centre of excellence has produced incredible materials, an annotated 

> bibliography and critical review of plain language and health 

> literacy resources to help you grasp the magnitude of this issue. 

> She is at lshohet (at) dawsoncollege.qc.ca

> 

> Hope these leads help!

> 

> Marg Rose, Collaborative Consulting

> Victoria, BC

> 

> "Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it."

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> Berlin

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