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Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4777] Re: New Readers of Iowa 2005 Health/Literacy
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Echo, echo applause for Archie's tireless work. He keeps us busy in
Iowa !
Gail Nielsen,
Iowa Health
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From: nifl-health@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-health@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of
Gail Spangenberg
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:34 AM
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Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4776] Re: New Readers of Iowa 2005 Health/Literacy
Archie, You deserve a long round of applause for your tireless efforts
in Iowa. This is pretty exciting stuff. Keep up the good work. Gail
>The New Readers of Iowa have been together for 16 years now and we are
>about to have our 16th state conference on Saturday, September 10, at
>the Sheraton Four Points Airport Hotel, 1810 Army Post Road, Des
>Moines, Iowa. The phone number is 515 287 6464. Ask for the New Readers
>of Iowa Conference room rate. This will be a one day conference from 9
>a.m. to 4 p.m.
>
>On one of the listservs there has been some discussion about how hard
>it is for a person with poor literacy skills to pursue their right to
>happiness that is guaranteed to us by our constitution.
>Because of the many things that are happening in our society today it
>is becoming harder to do. The New Readers of Iowa state conferences are
>aimed at helping adult learners to communicate better and we want them
>to come away better prepared to deal with the little things in life.
>When we as adult learners get better at communication we build our
>confidence and we do better things with our lives.
>
>When you've grown up and have lost your childhood dreams as a child,
>you become very defensive about yourself, your life and many other
>things because of your past experiences. The bad memories and the
>struggles of not learning to read clog your thinking and you can't see
>all the beautiful little things in life that are all around you.
>By having these conferences we have tried to build confidence in adult
>learners and enable them to have a happy and more productive life. Good
>health is o
l should be working on: how to use the health system.
>It is very complicated not just for adult learners, but for all of us.
>
>The topic of this year's conference is health and literacy. A group of
>pharmacists will be there to provide information for you about your
>medications. You can bring your medications in and ask questions about
>them. We will have very general health screening.
>The "Ask Me 3" project will be reviewed and a panel of new readers will
>share their perspectives about their experiences with it. A dietician
>will talk about nutrition. We will have a presentation about the new
>law that goes into effect in 2006 concerning how to access prescription
>drugs for people who have no drug coverage and other helpful
>information about health care.
>
>I feel we have a very good program with some good speakers from the
>health field: Rima Rudd, Sc. D., Harvard University School of Public
>Health; Joanne Schwartzberg, M.D., American Medical Association; Mary
>Mincer Hansen, State Health Commissioner; Dr. David Peat from the UK
>who is working on health literacy in the UK; and others.
>
>I'm asking adult literacy programs all over the country to send adult
>learners to our health and literacy conference and give them a chance
>to grow. This conference is one of a kind and it is one of the few
>student conferences still out there, so we need your support to keep
>adult literacy alive for people who have poor literacy skills. At these
>conferences we all come to learn together but if you are not an adult
>learner and you want to learn with us and from each other, you are
>welcome to attend the conference. There is no conference fee, but you
>need to register by calling Karmen Shriver at 1 888 466 4222, ext.
>4341.
>
>At the end of the conference, the adult learners will have a discussion
>and compare the last two conferences and talk about what they have
>learned. If they feel they need to add to the Health Literacy Statement
>that we made at
rence, we will do this at that time. I
>hope to see many of you at our conference.
>
>Contributors to the conference:
>
>The Iowa Department of Education
>Pfizer
>Harvard School of Public Health
>The Iowa Health System
>The Learning Disabilities Association of Iowa American Medical
>Association World Education North Iowa Area Community College HyVee
>Food Stores
>
>Thank you,
>Archie Willard
>Conference Chair and Adult Learner
>
>--
>Archie Willard
>URL - http://www.readiowa.org/archiew.html
--
Gail Spangenberg
President
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy
1221 Avenue of the Americas - 46th Floor New York, NY 10020
212-512-2362, fax 212-512-2610 www.caalusa.org
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