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 i6UFUf116342; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:30:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:30:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <db.108401f3.2e3bc2e6@aol.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: Lendoak@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4505] Reply to Q. on oral health-literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5107 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1718 Lines: 41 Dear Heidi Maloni , Perhaps this may be of help: (Will include this on NIFL net because of possible interest by others) 1. A good research publication is Auding and Reading, A Developmental Model by Thomas Sticht, L.J.Beck, R.N.Hauke. Published by Human Resources Research Org., Alexandria, Va. in 1974. (147 pp) The work was done under a US Air Force contract. (We have a copy. Not sure you can get this pub.) Sticht compares learning by auding and reading. His data shows that beyond the age of about 12, people can learn equally well by auding or reading. Chapter titles are: - Introduction - The developmental model of auding and reading - The development of listening/Looking and Auding/Reading processes - Review of the literature - Summary and implications 2. Another good resource is: Kavanaugh and Mattingly. "Language by ear and eye: the relationship between speech and reading. MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma., 1972. 3. On pages 78 and 79 of the first edition of our book, Doak, Doak, Root. Teaching patients with low literacy skills. Lippincott. 1985, we summarize some key findings of the above authors as it relates to health care instruction for patients. On pages 24-26 we describe a process for a listening comprehension test, and give an example. 4. An article in Patient Counseling and Health Education, Winter 1980, describes the method and results of our testing the literacy skills of 100 patients - several via a listening test only - and comparing their skill levels with the readability levels of 100 written instructions in use at the hospital. We hope this is of some help. Best wishes, Len and Ceci Doak Patient Learning Associates Potomac, Md.
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