Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
Language/Culture Matching Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires recipients of Federal financial assistance to take reasonable steps to make their programs, services, and activities by eligible persons with limited English proficiency.
AHRQ LEP Materials
- Honing Cultural and Linguistic Competence
- HHS LEP Guidance
- Language services: the percent of patient visits and admissions where preferred spoken language for health care is screened and recorded
- Cultivating Cultural Competence
- TeamSTEPPS Limited English Proficiency Safety Videos
- Health Literacy among Spanish-speaking Latino Parents with Limited English Proficiency
- A Conversation on Cultural Competence With Cindy Brach, Senior Health Policy Researcher, AHRQ
- Language/Culture Matching
- Eliminating Health Disparities Through Integration
