[NIFL-ESL:10689] Health Literacy Materials

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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 Charles LaRue has 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



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