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 e7B2j2P06427; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:45:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:45:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20000811024158.12399.qmail@web3201.mail.yahoo.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: Bertha Mo <bertiemo@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2521] RE: HLMonth X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: OR Sounds wonderful, but phone bill could be expensive. Have you thought of offering it on the internet within some sort of chat room. Bertie Mo --- "Schuster, Ellen" <schustee@orst.edu> wrote: > Helen - The August 29th teleclass looks wonderful > but I am at another > meeting. Will these be repeated or are minutes, > handouts taken to share with > those that can't participate? > > Many thanks for sharing. > > Ellen > > Ellen Schuster > Nutrition and Foods Specialist > Oregon State University > 161 Milam Hall > Corvallis, OR 97331-5106 > Phone: 541-737-1017 > Fax: 541-737-0999 > schustee@orst.edu > http://osu.orst.edu/dept/ehe/nutrition.htm > > Thought for the day: Talk doesn't cook rice. -- > Chinese proverb > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Helen Osborne > [mailto:Helen@healthliteracy.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 5:56 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2511] HLMonth > > > As many of you know, October is Health Literacy > Month. This is a grass-roots > effort by health literacy advocates everywhere to > raise awareness about the > need for understandable health information. > > Many of you are starting to plan what you will do > for Health Literacy Month. > Please keep us all posted by sharing on NIFL-Health, > completing the visitor > survey on Health Literacy Toolbox 2000, > http://www.prenataled.com/healthlit/default.asp or > contacting me, Helen > Osborne, directly at helen@healthliteracy.com > > I am happy to pass along something new that I am > doing related to Health > Literacy Month - TeleClasses. I will be leading four > FREE TeleClasses over > the next few weeks: > > "How to Celebrate Health Literacy Month: Ideas that > Work for You" will be > held on Friday, September 1 at 1 p.m. EST, and again > on Tuesday, September > 12 at 6 p.m. EST. In this one-hour teleclass, you > will learn about Health > Literacy Month, hear some of the fundamentals to get > started, and brainstorm > the many ways you can participate. > > "Ways You Can Make Medical Information > Understandable" will be held Tuesday, > August 29 at 6 p.m. EST, and again on Friday > September 15 at 1 p.m. EST. In > this one-hour teleclass, you will learn why many > patients have trouble > understanding medical information. You'll be > introduced to some ways you can > speak, write, and use pictures to make difficult > information easier to > understand. > > Teleclasses are live, interactive one-hour training > sessions that are > conducted over the telephone. The only equipment you > need is a > telephone -but, please, not a speaker phone. If you > have access to a > headset, that's even better for it will save neck > and wrist strain. (There I > go, thinking like the occupational therapist I am.) > These four classes are > free - you are only responsible for your own long > distance charges. > > Teleclasses are offered by TeleClass International. > The following links will > bring you directly to the class listings. For your > information, you need to > get a TeleClass student ID before you can complete > the registration process. > Act now - registration is limited to 15 > participants. > http://www.teleclassinternational.com/listacourse.shtml?C810021 > http://www.teleclassinternational.com/listacourse.shtml?C810022 > http://www.teleclassinternational.com/listacourse.shtml?C810023 > http://www.teleclassinternational.com/listacourse.shtml?C810024 > > Happy planning for Health Literacy Month. Hope to > "meet" you soon in a > TeleClass. > Helen Osborne, MEd., OTR/L > Health Literacy Consulting, Natick, MA > Phone: 508-653-1199 * Fax: 508-650-9492 > Helen@healthliteracy.com * www.healthliteracy.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
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